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Author(s): John Lyden (editor)
ISBN(s): 9780415448536, 0415448530
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 12.21 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415448530 

ISBN 13: 9780415448536

Author: John Lyden

The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film brings together a lively and experienced team of contributors to introduce students to the key topics in religion and film and to investigate the ways in which the exciting subject of religion and film is developing for more experienced scholars. Divided into four parts, the Companion: analyzes the history of the interaction of religion and film, through periods of censorship as well as appreciation of the medium studies religion-in-film, examining how the world’s major religions, as well as Postcolonial, Japanese and New Religions, are depicted by and within films uses diverse methodologies to explore religion and film, such as psychoanalytical, theological and feminist approaches, and audience reception analyzes religious themes in film, including Redemption, the Demonic, Jesus or Christ Figures, Heroes and Superheroes considers films as diverse as The Passion of the Christ, The Matrix, Star Wars and Groundhog Day. This definitive book provides an accessible resource to this emerging field and is an indispensable guide to religion and film for students of Religion, Film Studies, and beyond.

Table of contents: 

Part I History of the Interaction between Religion and Film: Focus on Western Christianity
1 Silent cinema and religion: an overview (1895–1930)
2 The era of censorship (1930–1967)
3 The Roman Catholic Church and cinema (1967 to the present)
4 Modern Protestant approaches to film (1960 to the present)
Part II Depictions of and by religious practitioners in films
5 Judaism
6 Christianity
7 Islam
8 Hinduism
9 Buddhism
10 Postcolonial religious syncretism: focus on the Philippines, Peru, and Mexico
11 Religion in Japanese film: focus on anime
12 New religious movements
Part III Academic approaches to the study of Religion and Film
13 Feminism
14 Audience reception
15 Cultural theory and cultural studies
16 Psychoanalysis
17 Theological approaches
Part IV Categories applicable to religion and film studies
18 Narrative
19 Redemption
20 Apocalyptic
21 Heroes and Superheroes
22 Horror and the demonic
23 Jesus and Christ-figures
24 Iconography
25 Sacrifice
26 Ethics

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