Cinema, religion and the romantic legacy

Paul Coates

This volume surveys the ways in which notions of religion and spirituality have impinged upon the cinema. It conceives of cinema as a post-Romantic form for which religion and spirituality can be unified only problematically. While inspecting many of the well-established themes and topoi of writing on religion and film (such as films about priests and "Christ-figures") it also seeks to problematize them, focusing primarily upon the issues of religious representation foregrounded by such European directors as Kieslowski and Godard. Exploring the cinematic instances of a "spirituality" embodied in experiences, Coates draws on theories of theologians, philosophers and cultural and literary critics, including Otto, Kant, Schiller and Girard. Addressing the relationship between religion and spirituality from a film studies specialist's perspective, this book offers all those concerned with film, media or religious studies an examination of the most serious artistic efforts to grapple with the theological and aesthetic issues of representation and representability.

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[目次]

  • Romanticism and religion: from horror to the sublime - Romanticism, the spirit and the idea of horror
  • The look into the sky - cinema, the sublime, and Romantic aspiration. The limits of representation: Cinema, two-dimensionality and representation - sacramental reality according to Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean-Luc Godard and Carl Dreyer
  • Cinema, Mystery and ethics - Krzysztof Kieslowski and Julio Medem
  • Mirror worlds, other world - Dekalog 9 and "The Double Life of Veronique". Supernatural persons: Possibly Jesus - on Christ and 'Christ-figures'
  • The devil, probably
  • Maria, myth and the other - image, worship and taboo. Aspects of popular religion: Popular religion and priesthood in three films by Agnieszka Holland
  • Spirit photographs - ghosts
  • Everyday speculative theology 1 - The Spirit of the Beehive, Ponette and The Edges of the Lord
  • Everyday speculative theology 2 - "Three Colours: Red"
  • Spirituality and religion - from the eastern bloc to the USA. Appendix: Blasphemy
  • The Gospel Kerygma and Multiple Textuality
  • Cinema and the Holy City
  • Religion, idealisation and exoticism
  • Two test cases
  • Veronica and the photographer
  • Documentary and Utopian truth.

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書名 Cinema, religion and the romantic legacy
著作者等 Coates, Paul
出版元 Ashgate
刊行年月 2003
ページ数 217 p.
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 0754615855
NCID BA61829582
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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