Imaging Religion in Film [electronic resource] : The Politics of Nostalgia /
Hamner, M. Gail.author.
This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds film's social power both to shape subjectivity and to image contemporary social contradictions and analyses three specific films: Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala ; Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry ; and the Coens' The Man Who Wasn't There .
Description based upon print version of record.
Akira Kurosawa: "what is a thing?': posing the religious in Dersu uzala (1975) -- Kiarostami: the face of modernity: alienation and transcendence in Taste of cherry (1997) -- Joel and Ethan Coen: searching for a way out: alienation and intimacy in The man who wasn't there (2001) -- Religious realism -- Concluding thoughts.
This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds film's social power both to shape subjectivity and to image contemporary social contradictions and analyses three specific films: Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala ; Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry ; and the Coens' The Man Who Wasn't There .
Religion and sociology.
Motion pictures—History.
Religion—Philosophy.
Motion pictures and television.
Sociology of Religion.
Film History.
Social Aspects of Religion.
Philosophy of Religion.
Religion and Society.
Screen Studies.