Religion and Film

  • Religion and Film: Representation, Experience, Meaning
    By Stefanie Knauss

    The way in which interpreters can be blind to the problems emerging from their unreflective application of theological frameworks to film analysis is especially obvious in Roy Anker's interpretation of The Shawshank Redemption (Frank ...

  • Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-creation of the World
    By S. Brent Plate

    This book brings together religious studies and film studies, asking how the world on film affects religious attitudes, and how millennia-old myths and rituals alter the ways films are made, viewed and interpreted.

  • Religion and Film: The Basics
    By Jeanette Reedy Solano

    years, Sister Rose Pacette and Peter Malone have published Roman Catholic guides to contemporary films entitled Lights ... the film as the place to discover God's general revelation, revealing God's grace and the theological lessons in ...

  • Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-creation of the World
    By S. B. Plate

    In addition to two new chapters, this edition has been restructured into three distinct sections that offer students and instructors theories and methods for thinking about cinema in ways that more fully connect film studies with religious ...

  • Religion and Film: Representation, Experience, Meaning
    By Stefanie Knauss

    Representations of religion(s) in film: the study of film as text -- Religious films: it's in the eyes of the beholder -- Thequest for meaning: religion and film as agents in cultural processes -- Why and how do we do what we do?: the ...

  • Religion and Film: An Introduction
    By Melanie Wright

    The book will have strong appeal to students as well as general readers interested in all aspects of the inter-relationship of religion and the cinema.

  • Religion and Film: An Introduction
    By J. Melanie Wright

    From silent films to contemporary blockbusters, religion has always proved a popular theme for the cinema. However, all too often religion and film are discussed from narrowly confessional perspectives, with...