Film and Redemption

From Brokenness to Wholeness

David Rankin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

150 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-15928-7 (ISBN)

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This book explores the representation of the idea or theme of redemption in contemporary, popular film. The discussion focuses primarily on the work of three directors – Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese and Kore-eda Hirokazu – but also considers a few films from other directorial hands. David Rankin divides the notion of personal redemption into transactional and transformational aspects, differentiating between redemption, understood as that which is external to the person but impacting on their being and environment, and that which is internal to the person. Redemption is viewed broadly as a journey from brokenness to wholeness, from imprisonment to release, or from some form of slavery to freedom. Both secular and religious (especially Christian) understandings of the notion are discussed, and consideration is given to how the former might inform the latter.

David Rankin is an ordained minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and has served as both Principal of Trinity College Queensland, Australia, and Head of the School of Theology at Griffith University, Australia. His previous publications include Tertullian and the Church (1995), From Clement to Origen (2006), Athenagoras (2009), The Early Church and the Afterlife (2017) and Film and the Afterlife (2019).

1 Introduction; 2 Redemption in Christian Thought; 3 ‘I’m not like that anymore’: Redemption in Clint Eastwood films; 4 ‘Pay up’: Redemption in Martin Scorsese films; 5 ‘Why did my life end up like this?’: Redemption in Kore-eda Hirokazu films; 6 ‘I coulda been somebody’: Redemption in other films (individual directors); 7 Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	06.07.2022
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Religion and Film
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	362 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-032-15928-6 / 1032159286
ISBN-13	978-1-032-15928-7 / 9781032159287
Zustand	Neuware