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Paul Tillich and the possibility of revelation through film : a theoretical account grounded by empirical research into the experiences of filmgoers / Jonathan Brant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brant, Jonathan.
- Series:
- Oxford theological monographs.
- Oxford theological monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Religious aspects.
- Motion pictures.
- Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965.
- Tillich, Paul.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since the birth of cinema at the end of the nineteenth century religion and film have been entwined. The Jesus-story and other religious narratives were the subject matter of some of the earliest cinema productions and this relationship has continued into the present. A recent proliferation of texts, conferences and courses bear witness to burgeoning academic interest in the relation between religion and film. In this study, Jonathan Brant explores the possibility that even filmslacking religious subject matter might have a religious impact upon their viewers, the possibility of revelation thr
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Imagining a research project
- pt. 2. The theology of Paul Tillich
- pt. 3. The empirical research
- pt. 4. Illuminations.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 5, 2012).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-163356-9
- 1-280-59476-4
- 9786613624598
- OCLC:
- 782917847
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