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Religion and Film - Cinema and the Re-creation of the World (Paperback, second edition)
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Religion and Film - Cinema and the Re-creation of the World (Paperback, second edition)
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Religion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing,
mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through
cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, and other production
activities, film takes the world "out there" and refashions it.
Religion achieves similar ends by setting apart particular objects
and periods of time, telling stories, and gathering people together
for communal actions and concentrated focus. The result of both
cinema and religious practice is a re-created world: a world of
fantasy, a world of ideology, a world we long to live in, or a
world we wish to avoid at all costs. Religion and Film introduces
readers to both religious studies and film studies by focusing on
the formal similarities between cinema and religious practices and
on the ways they each re-create the world. Explorations of film
show how the cinematic experience relies on similar aesthetic
devices on which religious rituals have long relied: sight, sound,
the taste of food, the body, and communal experience. Meanwhile, a
deeper understanding of the aesthetic nature of religious rituals
can alter our understanding of film production. Utilizing
terminology and theoretical insights from the study of religion as
well as the study of film, Religion and Film shows that by paying
attention to the ways films are constructed, we can shed new light
on the ways religious myths and rituals are constructed and vice
versa. This thoroughly revised and expanded new edition is designed
to appeal to the needs of courses in religion as well as film
departments. 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 studies.
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