RT Article
T1 The Fantastic of the Everyday: Re-Forming Definitions of Cinematic Parables with Paul Ricoeur
JF Horizons
VO 47
IS 2
SP 283
OP 314
A1 Mayward, Joel ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1749311429
AB Recent publications on theology and film attempting to explain what a parable is remain less clear about how or why a parable works for cinema, and many definitions do not fully take into account the formal dynamics of film qua film nor parable qua parable. I seek to demonstrate the benefits of a more precise conception of cinematic parables by utilizing philosopher Paul Ricoeur's understanding of "parable" to make theological interpretations of film that take audio-visual aesthetics into consideration. I conclude with three recent examples of cinematic parables in order to demonstrate this Ricoeurian parabolic hermeneutic: Asghar Farhadi's Iranian melodrama, A Separation (2011), American filmmaker Anna Rose Holmer's enigmatic The Fits (2016), and Aki Kaurismäki's droll Finnish comedy, The Other Side of Hope (2017). Ultimately, I make a case for film as theology, what I am calling "theocinematics."
K1 Paul Ricoeur
K1 Allegory
K1 film and theology
K1 Hermeneutics
K1 Metaphor
K1 Parable
K1 theocinematics
K1 Theological Aesthetics
DO 10.1017/hor.2020.104