Faith and spirituality in masters of world cinema / Edited by Kenneth R. Morefield.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morefield, Kenneth R. (Kenneth Robert), 1966-

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Religious aspects.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--History.

History.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

xx, 182 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction: cinema in the Biblical sense / Mike Hertenstein

Bergman's Trilogy of faith, persona, and faith in narrative / Bill Scalia

Roberto Rossellini and religion in the post-war era / Jason Simpkins

Music, light, and the Kierkegaardian instant in Kieslowski's The double life of Véronique and Blue / Isil Ozcan

Sacred in Bresson: Au hasard Balthazar / Joseph Cunneen

Carl Theodor Dreyer and the problem of Christian realism / Kenneth R. Morefield

"A state of mind, not a way of thinking": the spiritual cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky / Terence McSweeney

Cinematic epiphanies: Eric Rohmer and the transcendence of the ordinary / John Caruana

The Brothers Dardenne: responding to the face of the other / Doug Cummings

From dogmatism to mysticism: the evolution of faith in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's cinema / Gilda Boffa

Beliefs of a non-believer: spirituality and religion in the films of Ousmane Sembène / Patrick L. Day

The fragility of faith in the films of Guillermo del Toro / Siobhan O'Flynn

Pedro Costa's "Vanda trilogy" and the limits of narrative cinema as a contemplative art / Darren Hughes.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781443800099

1443800090

OCLC:

298595529