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Art cinema and theology : the word was made film / Justin Ponder.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.R4 P66 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ponder, Justin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Religious aspects.
- Motion pictures.
- Religious films--History and criticism.
- Religious films.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 214 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan , 2017.
- Summary:
- This book examines postmodern theology and how it relates to the cinematic style of Robert Bresson, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman, and Luis Buñuel. Ponder demonstrates how these filmmakers forefront religious issues in their use of mise en scène. He investigates both the technical qualities of film "flesh' and its theological features. The chapters show how art cinema uses sound, editing, lighting, and close-ups in ways that critique doctrine's authoritarianism, as well as philosophy's individualism, to suggest postmodern theologies that emphasize community. Through this book we learn how the cinematic style of modernist auteurs relates to postmodern theology and how the industry of art cinema constructs certain kinds of film-watching subjectivity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783319585550
- 331958555X
- OCLC:
- 982651848
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