Moralizing Cinema

Film, Catholicism, and Power
Herausgeber: Biltereyst, Daniel; Treveri Gennari, Daniela

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume is part of the recent interest in the study of religion and popular media culture (cinema in particular), but it strongly differs from most of this work in this maturing discipline. Contrary to most other edited volumes and monographs on film and religion, Moralizing Cinema will not focus upon films (cf. the representation of biblical figures, religious themes in films, the fidelity question in movies), but rather look beyond the film text, content or aesthetics, by concentrating on the cinema-related actions, strategies and policies developed by the Catholic Church and Catholic organizations in order to influence cinema. Whereas the key role of Catholics in cinema has been well studied in the USA (cf. literature on the Legion of Decency and on the Catholic influenced Production Code Administration), the issue remains unexplored for other parts of the world. The book includes case studies on Argentina, Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, and the USA.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780415712644
• ISBN-10: 0415712645
• Artikelnr.: 41361416

Autorenporträt

Daniel Biltereyst is Full Professor in Film and Cultural Media Studies at Ghent University, Belgium, where he is Head of the Center for Cinema and Media Studies (CIMS). He was the editor of Explorations in New Cinema History (2011) and Cinema, Audiences and Modernity (Routledge, 2012, both with R. Maltby and Ph. Meers), as well as Silencing Cinema (2013, with R. Van de Winkel). Daniela Treveri Gennari is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her work on Catholicism and cinema has been published in her monograph Post-War Italian Cinema: American Intervention, Vatican Interests (Routledge 2008) as well as in articles and book chapters. Her current work on audiences - funded by the AHRC - investigates memories of cinema-going and patterns of exhibition in 1950s Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Catholics, cinema and power: An introduction Daniel Biltereyst and Daniela
Treveri Gennari Part 1: Policies 1. Resisting the lure of the modern world.
Catholics, international politics, and the establishment of the
International Catholic Office for Cinema (1918-1928) Guido Convents 2. The
Roman Catholic Church, cinema and the 'culture of dialogue': Italian
Catholics and the movies after the Second World War Dario Edoardo Viganò
3. The rise and fall of Catholic Hollywood, or from the Production Code to
The Da Vinci Code Thomas Doherty 4. Catholicism and Mexican cinema. A
secular state, a deeply conservative society and a powerful Catholic
hierarchy Francisco Peredo Castro Part 2: Leaders 5. Jean Bernard's fight
for 'good' cinema in Luxembourg Paul Lesch 6. An alternative way of
moralizing cinema: Father Flipo's remedy for the Catholic Church's
propaganda failure in France (1945-1962) Mélisande Leventopoulos 7. A
triple alliance for a Catholic neorealism. Roberto Rossellini according to
Felix Morlion, Giulio Andreotti and Gian Luigi Rondi Elena Dagrada Part 3:
Technology and Production 8. A Catholic voice in talking pictures: the
International Eidophon Company (1930-1934) Karel Dibbetts 9. Pius XII as
actor and subject: on the representation of the Pope in cinema during the
1940s and 1950s Federico Ruozzi 10. The failed project of a Catholic
Neorealism: on Giulio Andreotti, Felix Morlion and Roberto Rossellini
Tomaso Subini Part 4:Censorship and control 11. Protectionism and Catholic
film policy in twentieth-century Ireland Kevin Rockett 12. A case of
entente cordiale between State and Church: Catholics and film control in
Argentina (1954-1984) Maria Elena de las Carrera 13. The 'Ideal Film'. On
the transformation of the Italian Catholic film and media policy in the
1950s and the 1960s Mariagrazia Fanchi Part 5: Exhibition and Cinema-going
experiences 14. Separating the sheep from the goats: gendering space in the
Cinema Auditorium in Rucphen (1929) Thunnis van Oort 15. "I think Catholics
didn't go to the cinema": Catholic film exhibition strategies and
cinema-going experiences in Belgium, 1930s-1960s Daniel Biltereyst 16.
Moralizing cinema while attracting audiences: Catholic film exhibition in
post-war Rome Daniela Treveri Gennari