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Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: the Spiritual in Film
β Scribed by Johnston, Robert K.;Settle, Zachary;Worley, Taylor
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- Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
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- 222
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- Library
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Films are modern spiritual phenomena. They function as such in at least three profound ways: world projection, thought experiments, and catharsis (i.e., as dreams, doubt, and dread). Understanding film in this way allows for a theological account of the experience that speaks to the religious possibilities of film that far extend the portrayal of religious themes or content. Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: The Spiritual in Film aims to address films as spiritual experiences. This collection of short essays and dialogues examines films phenomenologically--through the experience of the viewer as an ag.
β¦ Table of Contents
Introduction: Thinking how film feels / Taylor Worley and Zachary Thomas Settle --
Dreams --
All secrets and darkness: the profoundly prophetic witness of David Lynch / by David Dark --
Leaving earth to find home / Eric Kuiper --
The impossibility of the black hero: James Baldwin and the cinematic / by Zachary Thomas Settle --
Roundtable on dreams --
Doubt --
A cinema of second chances: doubt, realism, and Bergman's "Silence of God" trilogy / Michael Leary --
Indispensable doubts, embodied hope: Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev / Joseph G. Kickasola --
Betraying the medium: the doubt in mass appeal / Crystal Downing --
Roundtable on doubt --
Dread --
Beyond death?: Alejandro GonzaΜlez Inarritu's grief trilogy --
Aesthetics of the "made": exuberant authenticity in the films of Wes Anderson / Kathryn Reklis --
Lacanian psychoanalysis and cinematic eschatology: a not-so-theologically-correct meditation on Jeff Nichols's Take shelter / by Carl Raschke --
Roundtable on dread.
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Motion pictures--Religious aspects;Electronic books;Motion pictures -- Religious aspects
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