| Description |
1 online resource (1 page) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Thinking how film feels / Taylor Worley and Zachary Thomas Settle -- Dreams -- All secrets and darkness: the profoundly prophetic witness of David Lynch / by David Dark -- Leaving earth to find home / Eric Kuiper -- The impossibility of the black hero: James Baldwin and the cinematic / by Zachary Thomas Settle -- Roundtable on dreams -- Doubt -- A cinema of second chances: doubt, realism, and Bergman's "Silence of God" trilogy / Michael Leary -- Indispensable doubts, embodied hope: Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev / Joseph G. Kickasola -- Betraying the medium: the doubt in mass appeal / Crystal Downing -- Roundtable on doubt -- Dread -- Beyond death?: Alejandro González Inarritu's grief trilogy -- Aesthetics of the "made": exuberant authenticity in the films of Wes Anderson / Kathryn Reklis -- Lacanian psychoanalysis and cinematic eschatology: a not-so-theologically-correct meditation on Jeff Nichols's Take shelter / by Carl Raschke -- Roundtable on dread |
| Summary |
Films are modern spiritual phenomena. They function as such in at least three profound ways: world projection, thought experiments, and catharsis (i.e., as dreams, doubt, and dread). Understanding film in this way allows for a theological account of the experience that speaks to the religious possibilities of film that far extend the portrayal of religious themes or content. Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: The Spiritual in Film aims to address films as spiritual experiences. This collection of short essays and dialogues examines films phenomenologically--through the experience of the viewer as an ag |
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Pages:1 to 1 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Religious aspects.
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Motion pictures -- Religious aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Worley, Taylor
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Johnston, Robert K
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| ISBN |
9781498223089 |
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1498223087 |
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9781498223096 |
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1498223095 |
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