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World Cinema, Theology, and the Human: Humanity in Deep Focus (Routledge Studies in Religion and Film) - Softcover

Book 1 of 20: Routledge Studies in Religion and Film

Sison, Antonio

 
9781138921887: World Cinema, Theology, and the Human: Humanity in Deep Focus (Routledge Studies in Religion and Film)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138921882 ISBN 13: 9781138921887
Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Forging an open-minded but reasoned dialogue between nine acclaimed titles of world cinema, and a range of theological perspectives that touch on the theme of human experience, World Cinema, Theology, and the Human offers fresh portals of insight for the interdisciplinary area of Theology and Film. In Sison’s approach, it is the cinematic representation of vivid humanity, not necessarily propositional statements about God and religion, that lays down a bridge to a conversation with theology. Thus, the book’s project is to look for the divine presence, written not on tablets of stone, but on "tablets of human hearts" depicted on screen by way of audiovisual language. Seeking to redress the interdiscipline’s narrow predilection for Hollywood blockbusters, the book casts its net wider to include a culturally diverse selection of case studies– from festival gems such as Singapore’s Be With Me and South Africa’s Yesterday, to widely-acclaimed sleeper hits such as Britain’s Slumdog Millionaire and New Zealand’s Whale Rider. The book will appeal to scholars of theology and religious/cultural studies interested in the Theology/Religion-Film interface, and, because of its commitment to an examination of film qua film, a crossover readership from film studies.

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About the Author

Antonio D. Sison, C.PP.S., Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. He is the author of Screening Schillebeeckx: Theology and Third Cinema in Dialogue (2006) and a contributor to Routledge Companion to Religion and Film (Routledge, 2009). He is also an independent digital filmmaker.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138921882
ISBN 13 
9781138921887
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
176