John Caruana is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ryerson University. Mark Cauchi is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at York University.

"Immanent Frames stands out as a valuable response to an increasing tendency in recent films to tackle religious issues from an open-ended approach … this book will prove an important resource to scholars of religion and film, due to the rich variety of perspectives it encompasses as well as due to the thorough analyses it contains." — Journal of Religion and Film

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsWhat Is Postsecular Cinema? An IntroductionJohn Caruana and Mark CauchiPart I. The Poles of Postsecular Cinema: Malick and von Trier 1. Two Ways through Life: Postsecular Visions in Melancholia and The Tree of Life Robert Sinnerbrink2. Hegel, Malick, and the Postsecular SublimeLambert Zuidervaart3. Repetition and Belief: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Malick’s The Tree of Life John Caruana4. Toward and Away from the World: Subjectivity After Loss in The Tree of Life Steven Rybin5. The Death of God and the Genesis of Worldhood in von Trier’s Melancholia Mark Cauchi6. Notes on Divine Homelessness: A Reading of Lars von Trier’s Dogville Costica BradatanPart II. The Spectrum of Postsecular Cinema: Beyond Malick and von Trier 7. Face to Face with Chantal AkermanWilliam Rothman8. "There’s No Point in Killing a Bad Priest": John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary and theBroken MiddleCatherine Wheatley9. The Immortal Thighs of Ines Orsini: The Transcendence of Grace in Denys Arcand’s The Barbarian Invasions Russell J. A. Kilbourn10. Three Immersions: Mouchette, Vagabond, Rosetta Charles Warren11. "Put Yourself in My Place": Two Days, One Night and the Journey Back to LifeSarah CooperPart III. Conversations on Postsecular Cinema: Luc Dardenne and Jean-Luc Nancy 12. Can We Think the Inconsolable without Consolation? An Interview with Luc DardenneLuc Dardenne13. Could It Be that Cinema Itself Is Contemporaneity? A Conversation with Jean-Luc NancyJean-Luc NancyContributorsIndex

John Caruana is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ryerson University. Mark Cauchi is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at York University.

"Immanent Frames stands out as a valuable response to an increasing tendency in recent films to tackle religious issues from an open-ended approach … this book will prove an important resource to scholars of religion and film, due to the rich variety of perspectives it encompasses as well as due to the thorough analyses it contains." — Journal of Religion and Film

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsWhat Is Postsecular Cinema? An IntroductionJohn Caruana and Mark CauchiPart I. The Poles of Postsecular Cinema: Malick and von Trier 1. Two Ways through Life: Postsecular Visions in Melancholia and The Tree of Life Robert Sinnerbrink2. Hegel, Malick, and the Postsecular SublimeLambert Zuidervaart3. Repetition and Belief: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Malick’s The Tree of Life John Caruana4. Toward and Away from the World: Subjectivity After Loss in The Tree of Life Steven Rybin5. The Death of God and the Genesis of Worldhood in von Trier’s Melancholia Mark Cauchi6. Notes on Divine Homelessness: A Reading of Lars von Trier’s Dogville Costica BradatanPart II. The Spectrum of Postsecular Cinema: Beyond Malick and von Trier 7. Face to Face with Chantal AkermanWilliam Rothman8. "There’s No Point in Killing a Bad Priest": John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary and theBroken MiddleCatherine Wheatley9. The Immortal Thighs of Ines Orsini: The Transcendence of Grace in Denys Arcand’s The Barbarian Invasions Russell J. A. Kilbourn10. Three Immersions: Mouchette, Vagabond, Rosetta Charles Warren11. "Put Yourself in My Place": Two Days, One Night and the Journey Back to LifeSarah CooperPart III. Conversations on Postsecular Cinema: Luc Dardenne and Jean-Luc Nancy 12. Can We Think the Inconsolable without Consolation? An Interview with Luc DardenneLuc Dardenne13. Could It Be that Cinema Itself Is Contemporaneity? A Conversation with Jean-Luc NancyJean-Luc NancyContributorsIndex

John Caruana is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ryerson University. Mark Cauchi is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at York University.

"Immanent Frames stands out as a valuable response to an increasing tendency in recent films to tackle religious issues from an open-ended approach … this book will prove an important resource to scholars of religion and film, due to the rich variety of perspectives it encompasses as well as due to the thorough analyses it contains." — Journal of Religion and Film

• IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsWhat Is Postsecular Cinema? An IntroductionJohn Caruana and Mark CauchiPart I. The Poles of Postsecular Cinema: Malick and von Trier 1. Two Ways through Life: Postsecular Visions in Melancholia and The Tree of Life Robert Sinnerbrink2. Hegel, Malick, and the Postsecular SublimeLambert Zuidervaart3. Repetition and Belief: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Malick’s The Tree of Life John Caruana4. Toward and Away from the World: Subjectivity After Loss in The Tree of Life Steven Rybin5. The Death of God and the Genesis of Worldhood in von Trier’s Melancholia Mark Cauchi6. Notes on Divine Homelessness: A Reading of Lars von Trier’s Dogville Costica BradatanPart II. The Spectrum of Postsecular Cinema: Beyond Malick and von Trier 7. Face to Face with Chantal AkermanWilliam Rothman8. "There’s No Point in Killing a Bad Priest": John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary and theBroken MiddleCatherine Wheatley9. The Immortal Thighs of Ines Orsini: The Transcendence of Grace in Denys Arcand’s The Barbarian Invasions Russell J. A. Kilbourn10. Three Immersions: Mouchette, Vagabond, Rosetta Charles Warren11. "Put Yourself in My Place": Two Days, One Night and the Journey Back to LifeSarah CooperPart III. Conversations on Postsecular Cinema: Luc Dardenne and Jean-Luc Nancy 12. Can We Think the Inconsolable without Consolation? An Interview with Luc DardenneLuc Dardenne13. Could It Be that Cinema Itself Is Contemporaneity? A Conversation with Jean-Luc NancyJean-Luc NancyContributorsIndex