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Art Cinema and Theology
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- Justin Ponder is Associate Professor of English at Marian University, USA. He has written on theology and film in the Journal of Religion and Film, Religion and the Arts, and Imaginatio et Ratio.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9783319864280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan, (23 August 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 214
- Weight
- 454 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 210 x 148 mm
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