Salvation from Cinema

The Medium is the Message

Crystal Downing (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

204 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-91393-6 (ISBN)

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Salvation from Cinema offers something new to the burgeoning field of "religion and film": the religious significance of film technique. Discussing the history of both cinematic devices and film theory, Crystal Downing argues that attention to the material medium echoes Christian doctrine about the materiality of Christ’s body as the medium of salvation. Downing cites Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu perspectives on film in order to compare and clarify the significance of medium within the frameworks of multiple traditions. This book will be useful to professors and students interested in the relationship between religion and film.

Crystal Downing teaches film adaptation, critical theory, and nineteenth-century British literature at Messiah College in Pennsylvania. In addition to her first three books, which apply poststructuralist insight to issues of faith, Downing has published numerous essays on film in journals such as Religion and the Arts, Film and History, Books and Culture, Literature/Film Quarterly, and The Cresset.

Introduction: Toward a Union of Medium and Message. Part I: Theories of Film Salvation. Chapter 1: Let There Be Enlightenment: Salvation from Religion and Film. Chapter 2: Light from Light: Seeing Cinema Constellations. Chapter 3: Gazing at the Stars: Nudity on Screen. Chapter 4: Breaking the Fourth Wall: Salvation from the Screen. Part II: Salvation from Film Theory. Chapter 5: Enlightenment as Mass Deception: Certain Tendencies in Film Theory. Chapter 6: The Gift of Salvation: Derrida and Holocaust Cinema. Chapter 7: Seeing Cinema Differently: Salvation from C. S. Peirce. Chapter 8: From Delusion to Deleuzean Cinema: Salvation from Hugo.

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-91393-6 / 1138913936
ISBN-13	978-1-138-91393-6 / 9781138913936
Zustand	Neuware