Imaging Religion in Film The Politics of Nostalgia
This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds film's social power both to shape subjectivity and to image contemporary social contradictions and analyses three specific films: Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala ; Kiarostami'...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Palgrave Macmillan US
2011, 2011
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| Series: | New Approaches to Religion and Power
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds film's social power both to shape subjectivity and to image contemporary social contradictions and analyses three specific films: Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala ; Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry ; and the Coens' The Man Who Wasn't There |
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| Physical Description: | XVII, 193 p. 15 illus online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781137013248 |