Art Cinema And Theology: The Word Was Made Film
by Justin Ponder /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book examines postmodern theology and how it relates to the
cinematic style of Robert Bresson, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ingmar
Bergman, and Luis Buñuel. Ponder demonstrates how these filmmakers
forefront religious issues in their use of mise en scène. He
investigates both the technical qualities of film “flesh” and its
theological features. The chapters show how art cinema uses sound,
editing, lighting, and close-ups in ways that critique doctrine’s
authoritarianism, as well as philosophy’s individualism, to suggest
postmodern theologies that emphasize community. Through this book
we learn how the cinematic style of modernist auteurs relates to
postmodern theology and how the industry of art cinema constructs
certain kinds of film-watching subjectivity.
This book examines postmodern theology and how it relates to the
cinematic style of Robert Bresson, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ingmar
Bergman, and Luis Buñuel. Ponder demonstrates how these filmmakers
forefront religious issues in their use of mise en scène. He
investigates both the technical qualities of film “flesh” and its
theological features. The chapters show how art cinema uses sound,
editing, lighting, and close-ups in ways that critique doctrine’s
authoritarianism, as well as philosophy’s individualism, to suggest
postmodern theologies that emphasize community. Through this book
we learn how the cinematic style of modernist auteurs relates to
postmodern theology and how the industry of art cinema constructs
certain kinds of film-watching subjectivity.
