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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Main Author: Hamner, M. Gail
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2011, 2011
Series:New Approaches to Religion and Power
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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
Physical Description:XVII, 193 p. 15 illus online resource
ISBN:9781137013248