Product Description

Edited by leading experts in the field, The Film and Religion Reader brings together the key writings in this exciting and dynamic discipline.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #741488 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

Review

'This is a genuinely useful addition to the maturing literature on religion and film. The imaginative selection of readings makes this book an invaluable resource that will broaden and deepen the insights of students and researchers in this field. This will undoubtedly become a key text for any serious course exploring the various ways in which religion and film intersect.' – Gordon Lynch, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

From the Back Cover

The Film and Religion Reader brings together the key writings in this exciting and dynamic discipline. In over 60 interviews, essays and reviews from numerous directors, film critics and scholars, this eagerly anticipated anthology offers the most complete survey of this emerging field to date.

The Film and Religion Reader is ideal for students and researchers, introduced and organized into the following thematic and chronological sections, each with an introduction by the editors:

• The Dawn of Cinema: Adherents and Detractors 
• The Birth of Film Theory: Realism, Formalism, and Religious Vision
• Directors and Critics: Global Perspectives

• African and Middle-Eastern Perspectives
• Asian and Australisian Perspectives
• European Perspectives
• South and North American Perspectives

• Theological and Biblical approaches to analysing film
• Recent reflections on the relation between religion and film

About the Author

Jolyon Mitchell is senior lecturer at New College, Edinburgh University. His previous publications include Visually Speaking, Mediating Religion, and Media Violence and Christian Ethics. S. Brent Plate is Associate Professor of Religion and the Visual Arts at Texas Christian University. His recent publications include Blasphemy: Art that Offends, Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics and Representing Religion in World Cinema.