Imaging Religion in Film : The Politics of Nostalgia
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
New Approaches to Religion and Power
ISBN-10
0230339867
ISBN-13
9780230339866
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 8th, 2011
Print length
193 Pages
Weight
372 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 14.30 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Film theory & criticismFilm history, theory or criticism
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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 .
"Imaging Religion in Film offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film, one that foregrounds film''s social power both to shape subjectivity and to image contemporary social contradictions. Specifically, the text develops a Foucauldian ethics of the subject, or ''pedagogy of self,'' a Deleuzian-Peircean semiotic for discussing religion in film, and a theory of religion within postmodernity that rethinks transcendence alongside a politically galvanizing nostalgia. This theoretical work prefaces analyses of three specific films: Kurosawa''s Dersu Uzala (1972); Kiarostami''s Taste of Cherry (1997); and the Coens'' The Man Who Wasn''t There (2001)."
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