Representing Religion in Film (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
This is the first full-length exploration of the relationship between religion, film, and ideology. It shows how religion is imagined, constructed, and interpreted in film and film criticism. The films analyzed include The Last Jedi, Terminator, Cloud...
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This is the first full-length exploration of the relationship between religion, film, and ideology. It shows how religion is imagined, constructed, and interpreted in film and film criticism. The films analyzed include The Last Jedi, Terminator, Cloud Atlas, Darjeeling Limited, Hellboy, The Revenant, Religulous, and The Secret of my Success.
Each chapter offers:
- an explanation of the particular representation of religion that appears in film
- a discussion of how this representation has been interpreted in film criticism and religious studies scholarship
- an in-depth study of a Hollywood or popular film to highlight the rhetorical, social, and political functions this representation accomplishes on the silver screen
- a discussion about how such analysis might be applied to other films of a similar genre
Written in an accessible style, and focusing on Hollywood and popular cinema, this book will be of interest to both movie lovers and experts alike.
Each chapter offers:
- an explanation of the particular representation of religion that appears in film
- a discussion of how this representation has been interpreted in film criticism and religious studies scholarship
- an in-depth study of a Hollywood or popular film to highlight the rhetorical, social, and political functions this representation accomplishes on the silver screen
- a discussion about how such analysis might be applied to other films of a similar genre
Written in an accessible style, and focusing on Hollywood and popular cinema, this book will be of interest to both movie lovers and experts alike.
Autoren-Porträt
Tenzan Eaghll is an independent academic and author whose work has been published in Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Religious Compass, Implicit Religion, and the Bloomsbury Critiquing Religion series. He is the creator and co-host of the podcast Fascism in Cinema.Rebekka King is Associate Professor and Co-Director of Religious Studies at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. She has published in Critical Research on Religion, Religion and Society: Advances in Research, and the Bloomsbury Critiquing Religion series.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2022, 1. Auflage, 264 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Tenzan Eaghll, Rebekka King
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- ISBN-10: 135014083X
- ISBN-13: 9781350140837
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2022
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