Art Cinema and Theology
The Word Was Made Film
This book examines postmodern theology and how it relates to the cinematic style of Robert Bresson, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman, and Luis Buñuel. Ponder demonstrates how these filmmakers forefront religious issues in their use of mise en scène. He investigates both the technical qualities of film “flesh” and its theological features. The chapters show how art cinema uses sound, editing, lighting, and close-ups in ways that critique doctrine’s authoritarianism, as well as philosophy’s individualism, to suggest postmodern theologies that emphasize community. Through this book we learn how the cinematic style of modernist auteurs relates to postmodern theology and how the industry of art cinema constructs certain kinds of film-watching subjectivity.
This book examines postmodern theology and how it relates to the cinematic style of Robert Bresson, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman, and Luis Buñuel. Ponder demonstrates how these filmmakers forefront religious issues in their use of mise en scène. He investigates both the technical qualities of film “flesh” and its theological features. The chapters show how art cinema uses sound, editing, lighting, and close-ups in ways that critique doctrine’s authoritarianism, as well as philosophy’s individualism, to suggest postmodern theologies that emphasize community. Through this book we learn how the cinematic style of modernist auteurs relates to postmodern theology and how the industry of art cinema constructs certain kinds of film-watching subjectivity.
Autor: | Ponder, Justin |
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ISBN: | 9783319864280 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Verlag: | Springer Nature EN |
Veröffentlicht: | 23.08.2018 |
Untertitel: | The Word Was Made Film |
Schlagworte: | B Film Theory Literature, Cultural and Media Studies Modern philosophy: since c 1800 Motion pictures Post-Modern Philosophy Postmodern Philosophy Postmodernism Religion Religion: general Religious Studies, general Westliche Philosophie: nach 1800 auseinandersetzen |
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