03272nam 22006251a 450 991081254070332120120522121913.01-4725-4949-X1-280-58108-597866136108671-4411-4792-610.5040/9781472549495(CKB)2670000000175362(EBL)894565(OCoLC)787843535(SSID)ssj0000640786(PQKBManifestationID)12245882(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000640786(PQKBWorkID)10612941(PQKB)11532270(MiAaPQ)EBC894565(Au-PeEL)EBL894565(CaPaEBR)ebr10554654(CaONFJC)MIL361086(OCoLC)794909856(UtOrBLW)bpp09255488(EXLCZ)99267000000017536220140929d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe sacred and the cinema reconfiguring the "genuinely" religious film /Sheila J. Nayar1st ed.New York Continuumc20121 online resource (225 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4725-3302-X 1-4411-5871-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-187) and index.Tackling transcendence: an introduction -- A history of the sacred as a field of study -- A history of the sacred and the cinema -- The oral contours of the religious spectacular -- The literate contours of the transcendental style -- Varieties of hierophanic experience -- Technologizing hierophany: concluding remarks."For more than half a century now, scholars have debated over what comprises a 'genuinely' religious film one that evinces an 'authentic' manifestation of the sacred. Often these scholars do so by pitting the 'successful' films against those which propagate an inauthentic spiritual experience with the biblical spectacular serving as their most notorious candidate. This book argues that what makes a filmic manifestation of the sacred true or authentic may say more about a spectator or critic's particular way of knowing, as influenced by alphabetic literacy, than it does about the aesthetic or philosophical and sometimes even faith-based dimensions of the sacred onscreen. Engaging with everything from Hollywood religious spectaculars, Hindu mythologicals, and an international array of films revered for their 'transcendental style,' The Sacred and the Cinema unveils the epistemic pressures at the heart of engaging with the sacred onscreen. The book also provides a valuable summation of the history of the sacred as a field of study, particularly as that field intersects with film."--Bloomsbury Publishing.Religion in motion picturesMotion picturesReligious aspectsReligion in motion pictures.Motion picturesReligious aspects.791.43/682Nayar Sheila J1167856UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910812540703321The sacred and the cinema3915862UNINA