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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255075903321

Autore

Ponder Justin

Titolo

Art Cinema and Theology : The Word Was Made Film / / by Justin Ponder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-58556-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 214 p. 15 illus., 3 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

791.4301

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Religion

Postmodernism

Film Theory

Religious Studies, general

Postmodern Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: The Word Was Made Film -- 2. “All is Grace”: Sound and Grace in Robert Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest -- 3. “Life. Yes. Life.”: Editing and Miracles in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Ordet -- 4. “The Whole Earth is Full of His Glory”: Lighting and Suffering in Ingmar Bergman’s Winter Light -- 5. “No One Must Know of This”: Close-up and Heresy in Luis Buñuel’s The Milky Way -- 6. Conclusion: “…And Dwelt Among Us”.

Sommario/riassunto

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. .