Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-creation of the World. By Linda Freedman
Brent Plate’s Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-creation of the World is centered on the proposition that film ‘actively reshape[s] elements of the lived world’ to offer us new modes of seeing the familiar (p. 1). In an engaging and accessible set of four chapters, Plate demonstrates for us film’...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Literature and theology
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 117-118 |
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| Summary: | Brent Plate’s Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-creation of the World is centered on the proposition that film ‘actively reshape[s] elements of the lived world’ to offer us new modes of seeing the familiar (p. 1). In an engaging and accessible set of four chapters, Plate demonstrates for us film’s ability to propose ‘alternate worlds’ that themselves grant ‘prescriptions for a better life and imaginative tools for re-viewing the world as it is’ (p. 2). In chapters that focus on film’s mythic, ritual, sensory and affective qualities in space and time, Plate invites us to see anew that film is one of the most powerful modes of performing religion in today’s world., Each chapter is keyed around a central premise that is related to the larger theme of films as alternate worlds. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Reference: | Errata "Erratum (2014)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frs065 |