Exploring Film and Christianity: Movement as Immobility (Routledge Studies in Religion and Film) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032163747 ISBN 13: 9781032163741

Publisher: Routledge, 2026

Synopsis

This book examines the connections between film and Christianity, considering how films express and depict Christian faith and spirituality and provide experiences associated with it. The notion of movement as immobility (from Simone Weil) is employed to describe film and its images in motion. Its movements can reconnect us with the movements of the world, those motions in which a mysterious sense of order, what Weil calls "immobility," arises. Film is understood as a privileged form to access inscrutable spiritual (in)visibilities that can be linked with Christian concepts and practices. The chapters in Exploring Film and Christianity offer new studies of famous directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky and Robert Bresson combined with analyses of recent notable films, including Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups, Martin Scorsese’s Silence, and Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049. Organized around the productive topics of theory, expression, depiction and experience, this volume is a valuable contribution to interdisciplinary research on film and Christianity.

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About the Author

Rita Benis is a Researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Sérgio Dias Branco is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032163747
• ISBN 13: 9781032163741
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242
• Editor: Benis Rita, Dias Branco Sérgio