Edited by leading experts in the field,
The Film and Religion Reader
brings together the key writings in this exciting and dynamic discipline. In over sixty 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.
Film is now widely studied and researched in theology and religious studies departments,
is therefore 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.
This
Reader
brings together a huge amount of material in a student-friendly format and will be an invaluable resource for courses within both theology and religious studies.