S. Brent Plate

Religion and Film (eBook, ePUB)

Cinema and the Re-creation of the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From faint-inducing supernatural horror films to the mythologies of science fiction, from midnight screenings that prompt the creation of new rituals to pilgrimages inspired by films, cinema and religious life are intertwined. Religion and Film seeks out the frames, foci, and bodily engagements that are central to both cinema and religious practices. By analyzing the ways films are made and experienced, S. Brent Plate sheds new light on the ways religious myths, rituals, and symbols are produced and used, and vice versa. This thoroughly expanded and revised edition includes new chapters that offer theories and methods for thinking about cinema in a manner that more fully connects film studies with religious studies. Attention is paid to the production of space, race, and gender on screen, as well as the afterlives of films and the sensual, bodily encounters at the altar and on the screen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780231545792
• Artikelnr.: 49093100

Autorenporträt

S. Brent Plate is a writer, editor, and visiting associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College. His books include Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making (2003); Blasphemy: Art That Offends (2006); and A History of Religion in 5¿ Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses (2014). Plate is also cofounder and managing editor of the journal Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief.