Faith and spirituality in masters of world cinema
By: edited by Kenneth R. Morefield.
Contributors: Morefield, Kenneth R. 1966-
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Newcastle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781443800099
Subjects: Religion in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Religious aspects; Motion pictures -- History; Motion picture producers and directors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: cinema in the Biblical sense / Mike Hertenstein; title: Bergman's Trilogy of faith, persona, and faith in narrative / Bill Scalia; title: Roberto Rossellini and religion in the post-war era / Jason Simpkins; title: Music, light, and the Kierkegaardian instant in Kieslowski's The double life of Véronique and Blue / Isil Ozcan; title: Sacred in Bresson: Au hasard Balthazar / Joseph Cunneen; title: Carl Theodor Dreyer and the problem of Christian realism / Kenneth R. Morefield; title: "A state of mind, not a way of thinking": the spiritual cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky / Terence McSweeney; title: Cinematic epiphanies: Eric Rohmer and the transcendence of the ordinary / John Caruana; title: The Brothers Dardenne: responding to the face of the other / Doug Cummings; title: From dogmatism to mysticism: the evolution of faith in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's cinema / Gilda Boffa; title: Beliefs of a non-believer: spirituality and religion in the films of Ousmane Sembène / Patrick L. Day; title: The fragility of faith in the films of Guillermo del Toro / Siobhan O'Flynn; title: Pedro Costa's "Vanda trilogy" and the limits of narrative cinema as a contemplative art / Darren Hughes.