The Religion and Film Reader

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ISBN: 9780415404952 | 0415404959
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Copyright: 10/31/2007

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Edited by leading experts in the field, The Film and Religion Reader brings together the key writings in this exciting and dynamic discipline. In over sixty interviews, essays and reviews from numerous directors, film critics and scholars, this eagerly anticipated anthology offers the most complete survey of this emerging field to date. Film is now widely studied and researched in theology and religious studies departments, The Film and Religion Reader is therefore ideal for students and researchers, introduced and organized into the following thematic and chronological sections, each with an introduction by the editors: the dawn of cinema: adherents and detractors the birth of film theory: realism, formalism, and religious vision directors and critics: global perspectives ? African and Middle-Eastern perspectives; Asian and Australisian perspectives; European perspectives; South and North American perspectives theological and Biblicalapproaches to analysing film recent reflections on the relation between religion and film. This Reader brings together a huge amount of material in a student-friendly format and will be an invaluable resource for courses within both theology and religious studies.

Acknowledgements	p. XV
General Introduction	p. 1
The Dawn of Cinema: Advocates and Detractors	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
from The Religious Possibilities of the Motion Picture (1910)	p. 14
from The Problem of Capital Formation in the Indian Cinema (1917)	p. 25
from If Christ Went to the Movies (1920)	p. 27
from The Devil's Camera (1920)	p. 32
from Encyclical Letter Vigilanti Cura (1936)	p. 35
The Birth of Film Theory: Realism, Formalism, and Religious Vision	p. 43
Introduction	p. 45
from On Certain Characteristics of Photogenie (1924)	p. 49
from Sorcery and Cinema (1927)	p. 54
from Le Journal D'un Cure de Campagne and the Stylistics of Robert Bresson (1951)	p. 57
from Metaphors on Vision (1963)	p. 60
Global Perspectives: Filmmakers and Critics	p. 67
Introduction	p. 69
African and Middle-Eastern Perspectives	p. 75
Introduction	p. 77
from In a Harsh Light (2000)	p. 82
from In Dialogue with Kiarostami (1998)	p. 87
from Once Upon a Filmmaker: Conversation with Mohsen Makhmalbaf (2001)	p. 92
from Religious Remediations: Pentecostal Views in Ghanaian Video-Movies (2005)	p. 95
from Towards an Understanding of the Popularity of West African Video Film (2004)	p. 103
from Notes from the Palestinian Diaspora: An Interview with Elia Suleiman (2003)	p. 113
from The Power of Female Solidarity: An Interview with Ousmane Sembene (2004)	p. 117
from I Make Films About the Big Problems of Our continent: An Interview with Cheick Oumar Sissoko (2000)	p. 121
Asian and Anstralasian Perspectives	p. 127
Introduction	p. 129
from Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema (2006)	p. 135
from Revelation and Doubt in Sant Tukaram and Devi (2000)	p. 143
from An Interview with Im Kwon-Taek (2002)	p. 149
from Suicide Off the Edge of Explicability: Awe in Ozu and Kore'eda (2002)	p. 153
from Jai Santoshi Maa Revisited: On Seeing a Hindu "Mythological" Film (2003)	p. 164
from I Want My Films to Explode with Life (2004)	p. 172
from Transcendental Style on Film (1972)	p. 176
from Shukyo Asobi and Miyazaki Hayao's Anime (2007)	p. 183
from Under Weir and Theroux: An Interview with Peter Weir (1986)	p. 194
European Perspectives	p. 197
Introduction	p. 199
from The Masterpiece: The Gospel According to St Matthew (1997) [1964]	p. 203
from Introduction to the Seventh Seal (1968) [1957]	p. 208
from Filming the Story of a Spy for God: An Interview with Costa-Gavras (2003)	p. 210
from Godard in His Fifth Period (1985)	p. 213
from Introduction to Decalogue: The Ten Commandments (1991) [1988]	p. 219
from A Century of Films: Day of Wrath (2001)	p. 225
from Sculpting in Time (1989)	p. 227
from Trier on Von Trier (2003)	p. 230
South and North American Perspectives	p. 233
Introduction	p. 235
from Woody Allen on Woody Allen (1994)	p. 240
from Basic: An Interview with 21 Grams Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (2003)	p. 244
from The Rolling Stone Interview (1992)	p. 247
from Dialogue Between Bell Hooks and Julie Dash (1992)	p. 251
from Inner Views: Filmmakers in Conversation (1992)	p. 257
from Of Myth and Men: Excerpts of a Conversation Between Bill Moyers and George Lucas (1999)	p. 261
from On Reappreciating Kazantzakis (2005)	p. 267
from Screening Schillebeeckx (2006)	p. 269
from Sentimental Journey as National Allegory: An Interview with Walter Salles (1998)	p. 276
from Steven's Choice (2000)	p. 278
from Mouse Morality: The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film (2002)	p. 280
from Projecting Blackness: African-American Religion in the Hollywood Imagination (2004)	p. 285
Theological and Biblical Approaches to Analyzing Film	p. 295
Introduction	p. 297
Theological Dialogues	p. 301
from Catching Light: Looking for God in the Movies (2004)	p. 303
from Faith in Film (2005)	p. 306
from Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue (2000)	p. 312
from Cinema and Sentiment (2004)	p. 323
from Contemporary Theories Regarding the Interpretation of Religious Film (1997)	p. 327
from Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology (2004)	p. 337
Viewing and Writing on the Passion of the Christ (2005)	p. 343
from Celluloid Saints: Images of Sanctity in Film (2002)	p. 348
Biblical Connections	p. 351
from Cinema Divinite: Religion, Theology and the Bible in Film (2005)	p. 353
from St Paul at the Movies: The Apostle's Dialogue with American Culture (1993)	p. 358
from Plotted, Shot, and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women (1996)	p. 361
from The New Testament in Fiction and Film: On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow (1993)	p. 370
from Scripture on the Silver Screen (2003)	p. 374
from How Hysterical: Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film (2003)	p. 378
Recent Reflections on the Relation between Religion and Film	p. 385
Introduction	p. 387
from Religion in Film (1982)	p. 391
from Imagining Nothing and Imagining Otherness in Buddhist Film (1999)	p. 398
from Devotional Cinema (2003)	p. 407
from Film as Religion: Myths, Morals and Rituals (2003)	p. 416
from Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular American Film (1995)	p. 421
from The Footprints of Film: After Images of Religion in American Space and Time (2006)	p. 427
from Religion and Film (2007)	p. 438
Bibliography	p. 445
Webography	p. 456
Index	p. 459
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