Imaging Religion in Film The Politics of Nostalgia
Description
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 .
Keywords
Social ScienceSociology of ReligionPerforming ArtsFilmHistory & CriticismPhilosophyReligiousReligionSociology
2011Book
Author(s)M. Gail Hamner
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9780230339866
LanguageEnglish
