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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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...