The sacred and the cinema
Subtitle: reconfiguring the "genuinely" religious film
By: Sheila J. Nayar
Edition: Paperback edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781472533029
Subjects: Motion pictures; Religious aspects; Religious films; Religion in motion pictures; History and criticism
Notes: Originally published: London: Continuum, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tackling transcendence : an introduction; title: A history of the sacred as a field of study; title: A history of the sacred and the cinema; title: The oral contours of the religious spectacular; title: The alphabetically literate contours of the transcendental style; title: Varieties of hierophanic experience; title: Technologizing hierophany : concluding remarks.