Hamner Imaging Religion in Film

The Politics of Nostalgia
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-01324-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 193 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: New Approaches to Religion and Power

This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds film's social power both to shape subjectivity and to image contemporary social contradictions and analyses three specific films: Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala ; Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry ; and the Coens' The Man Who Wasn't There .

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamner, M. Gail

Hamner, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Interpreting Religion and Film PART I: FILM STUDY Akira Kurosawa: 'What is a Thing?': Posing the Religious in Dersu Uzala (1975) Kiarostami: The Face of Modernity Alienation and Transcendence in Taste of Cherry (1997) Joel and Ethan Coen: Searching for a Way Out Alienation and Intimacy in The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) PART II: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS Religious Realism

Über Autor(innen)

GAIL HAMNER Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University, USA.