| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 207 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Filmography: pages 197-200. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Worldmaking on-screen and at the altar -- Part I. Before the show: pulling the curtain on the wizard. Audio-visual mythologizing -- Ritualizing film in space and time -- Sacred and cinematic spaces: cities and pilgrimages -- Part II. During the show: attractions and distractions. Religious cinematics: body, screen, and death -- The face, the close-up, and ethics -- Part III. After the show: re-created realities. The footprints of film: cinematic after-images in sacred time and space. |
| Summary |
"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."--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Religious aspects.
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Motion pictures -- Religious aspects. |
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Religion in motion pictures.
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Religion in motion pictures. |
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Religious films -- History and criticism.
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Religious films. |
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Religion and literature.
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Religion and literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Plate, S. Brent, 1966- Religion and film. Second edition. New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] 9780231176743 0231176740 (DLC) 2017002049 (OCoLC)984149312 |
| ISBN |
0231545797 (electronic book) |
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9780231545792 (electronic book) |
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9780231176743 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0231176740 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780231176750 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0231176759 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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