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Film and the Afterlife
Av David Rankin
Inbunden, 2019
2133 kr
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This book explores how post-death existence is represented in popular film, looking at issues such as continuity, personal identity, and the nature of existence beyond the grave. Film often returns to the theme of dying, death and the afterlife, both directly and indirectly, because there are very …
Transcendence and Spirituality in Japanese Cinema
Framing Sacred Spaces
Inbunden, 2022
2133 kr
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This book explores significant representations of Shinto and Buddhist sacred space, spiritual symbols, and religious concepts that are embedded in the secular framework of Japanese films aimed at general audiences in Japan and globally. These cinematic masterpieces by directors Akira Kurosawa, …
Transcendence and Spirituality in Chinese Cinema
A Theological Exploration
Inbunden, 2020
2445 kr
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This book provides a framework by which a global audience might think theologically about contemporary films produced in mainland China by Chinese directors. Up to this point the academic discipline of Christian theology and film has focussed predominantly on Western cinema, and as a result, has …
Transcendence and Spirituality in Chinese Cinema
A Theological Exploration
Häftad, 2022
704 kr
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This book provides a framework by which a global audience might think theologically about contemporary films produced in mainland China by Chinese directors. Up to this point the academic discipline of Christian theology and film has focussed predominantly on Western cinema, and as a result, has …
New Approaches to Islam in Film
Häftad, 2023
646 kr
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Many global film industries fail in expanding the role of Muslims on screen. Too often they produce a dichotomy between "good" and "bad" Muslims, limiting the narrative domain to issues of national security, war, and terrorism. Naturally, much of the previous scholarship on Muslims in film focused …
Lars von Trier's Cinema
Excess, Evil, and the Prophetic Voice
Av Rebecca Ver Straten-McSparran
Inbunden, 2021
1901 kr
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This book offers a bold and dynamic examination of Lars von Trier’s cinema by interweaving philosophy and theology with close attention to aesthetics through style and narrative. It explores the prophetic voice of von Trier's films, juxtaposing them with Ezekiel's prophecy and Ricoeur’s symbols of …
Lars von Trier's Cinema
Excess, Evil, and the Prophetic Voice
Av Rebecca Ver Straten-McSparran
Häftad, 2023
685 kr
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This book offers a bold and dynamic examination of Lars von Trier’s cinema by interweaving philosophy and theology with close attention to aesthetics through style and narrative. It explores the prophetic voice of von Trier's films, juxtaposing them with Ezekiel's prophecy and Ricoeur’s symbols of …
Film and the Afterlife
Av David Rankin
Häftad, 2021
588 kr
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This book explores how post-death existence is represented in popular film, looking at issues such as continuity, personal identity, and the nature of existence beyond the grave. Film often returns to the theme of dying, death and the afterlife, both directly and indirectly, because there are very …
Silents of Jesus in the Cinema (1897-1927)
Häftad, 2019
704 kr
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While Jesus has attracted the sporadic interest of film-makers since the epics of the Sixties, it is often forgotten that between the advent of motion pictures in the 1890s and the close of the "silent" era at the end of the 1920s, some of the longest, most expensive and most watched films on both …
Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema
Blind Paul
Häftad, 2019
704 kr
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This book revisits the tradition of Western religious cinema in light of scholarship on St. Paul’s political theology. The book’s subtitle derives from the account in the Book of Acts that St. Paul was temporarily blinded in the wake of his conversion on the road to Damascus. In imitation of Paul, …
Noah as Antihero
Darren Aronofsky’s Cinematic Deluge
Av Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch, Jon Morgan
Häftad, 2019
704 kr
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This collection of essays by biblical scholars is the first book-length treatment of the 2014 film Noah, directed by Darren Aronofsky. The film has proved to be of great interest to scholars working on the interface between the Bible and popular culture, not only because it was heralded as the …
World Cinema, Theology, and the Human
Humanity in Deep Focus
Inbunden, 2012
2512 kr
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Forging an open-minded but reasoned dialogue between nine acclaimed titles of world cinema, and a range of theological perspectives that touch on the theme of human experience, World Cinema, Theology, and the Human offers fresh portals of insight for the interdisciplinary area of Theology and Film. …
Religion in Contemporary European Cinema
The Postsecular Constellation
Av Costica Bradatan, Camil Ungureanu
Inbunden, 2014
2658 kr
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The religious landscape in Europe is changing dramatically. While the authority of institutional religion has weakened, a growing number of people now desire individualized religious and spiritual experiences, finding the self-complacency of secularism unfulfilling. The "crisis of religion" is …
Silents of Jesus in the Cinema (1897-1927)
Inbunden, 2016
2504 kr
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While Jesus has attracted the sporadic interest of film-makers since the epics of the Sixties, it is often forgotten that between the advent of motion pictures in the 1890s and the close of the "silent" era at the end of the 1920s, some of the longest, most expensive and most watched films on both …
American Theology, Superhero Comics, and Cinema
The Marvel of Stan Lee and the Revolution of a Genre
Inbunden, 2013
2736 kr
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Stan Lee, who was the head writer of Marvel Comics in the early 1960s, co-created such popular heroes as Spider-Man, Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, and Daredevil. This book traces the ways in which American theologians and comic books of the era were not only both saying …
Transnational Cinema and Ideology
Representing Religion, Identity and Cultural Myths
Inbunden, 2014
2904 kr
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Increasingly, as the production, distribution and audience of films cross national boundaries, film scholars have begun to think in terms of ‘transnational’ rather than national cinema. This book is positioned within the emerging field of transnational cinema, and offers a groundbreaking study of …
New Approaches to Islam in Film
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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Many global film industries fail in expanding the role of Muslims on screen. Too often they produce a dichotomy between "good" and "bad" Muslims, limiting the narrative domain to issues of national security, war, and terrorism. Naturally, much of the previous scholarship on Muslims in film focused …
Film and Redemption
From Brokenness to Wholeness
Av David Rankin
Inbunden, 2022
2512 kr
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This book explores the representation of the idea or theme of redemption in contemporary, popular film. The discussion focuses primarily on the work of three directors – Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese and Kore-eda Hirokazu – but also considers a few films from other directorial hands. David Rankin …
Exploring Film and Christianity
Movement as Immobility
Av Rita Benis, Sérgio Dias Branco
Inbunden, 2024
2133 kr
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This book examines the connections between film and Christianity, considering how films express and depict Christian faith and spirituality and provide experiences associated with it. The notion of movement as immobility (from Simone Weil) is employed to describe film and its images in motion. Its …
Exploring Film and Christianity
Movement as Immobility
Av Rita Benis, Sérgio Dias Branco
Häftad, 2026
706 kr
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This book examines the connections between film and Christianity, considering how films express and depict Christian faith and spirituality and provide experiences associated with it. The notion of movement as immobility (from Simone Weil) is employed to describe film and its images in motion. Its …
Film and Redemption
From Brokenness to Wholeness
Av David Rankin
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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This book explores the representation of the idea or theme of redemption in contemporary, popular film. The discussion focuses primarily on the work of three directors – Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese and Kore-eda Hirokazu – but also considers a few films from other directorial hands. David Rankin …
Dardenne Brothers’ Cinematic Parables
Integrating Theology, Philosophy, and Film
Av Joel Mayward
Inbunden, 2022
2504 kr
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The Dardenne Brothers’ Cinematic Parables examines the work of Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, who have been celebrated for their powerfully affecting social realist films. Though the Dardenne brothers’ films rarely mention religion or God, they have received wide recognition for …
Dardenne Brothers’ Cinematic Parables
Integrating Theology, Philosophy, and Film
Av Joel Mayward
Häftad, 2024
646 kr
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The Dardenne Brothers’ Cinematic Parables examines the work of Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, who have been celebrated for their powerfully affecting social realist films. Though the Dardenne brothers’ films rarely mention religion or God, they have received wide recognition for …
Transcendence and Spirituality in Japanese Cinema
Framing Sacred Spaces
Häftad, 2024
685 kr
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This book explores significant representations of Shinto and Buddhist sacred space, spiritual symbols, and religious concepts that are embedded in the secular framework of Japanese films aimed at general audiences in Japan and globally. These cinematic masterpieces by directors Akira Kurosawa, …
Theology and Survival Movies
An Orthodox Christian Perspective
Av Ioan Buteanu
Inbunden, 2023
2126 kr
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This book provides an innovative analysis of the survival movie genre from an Orthodox Christian anthropological perspective. Grounded in the Orthodox tradition, the approach builds from the first chapter of Genesis where man is described as made in the ‘image’ and after the ‘likeness’ of God. It …
Theology and Survival Movies
An Orthodox Christian Perspective
Av Ioan Buteanu
Häftad, 2024
646 kr
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This book provides an innovative analysis of the survival movie genre from an Orthodox Christian anthropological perspective. Grounded in the Orthodox tradition, the approach builds from the first chapter of Genesis where man is described as made in the ‘image’ and after the ‘likeness’ of God. It …
Theological Power of Film
Av James Lorenz
Inbunden, 2024
2504 kr
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This book explores the theological power of film and seeks to render a properly theological account of cinematic art. It considers: What theology and theological practice does cinematic art give rise to? What are the perceptual and affective potentials of film for theology, and what, if anything, …
Theological Power of Film
Av James Lorenz
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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This book explores the theological power of film and seeks to render a properly theological account of cinematic art. It considers: What theology and theological practice does cinematic art give rise to? What are the perceptual and affective potentials of film for theology, and what, if anything, …
Christianity and Horror Cinema
Inbunden, 2025
2504 kr
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Christianity and Horror Cinema explores ways that Christian beliefs, spiritualities, practices, and symbols provide the religious and existential "depths" out of which the monsters of Western horror cinema have emerged, arguing that they are, in several respects, the monsters for which Christians …
Christianity and Horror Cinema
Häftad, 2026
704 kr
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Christianity and Horror Cinema explores ways that Christian beliefs, spiritualities, practices, and symbols provide the religious and existential "depths" out of which the monsters of Western horror cinema have emerged, arguing that they are, in several respects, the monsters for which Christians …
