The Religion and Film Reader (Paperback)

~ Jolyon Mitchell (Editor), (Editor)

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Review

This is a genuinely useful addition to the maturing literature on religion and film. The imaginative selection of readings makes this book an invaluable resource that will broaden and deepen the insights of students and researchers in this field. This will undoubtedly become a key text for any serious course exploring the various ways in which religion and film intersect. – Gordon Lynch, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

[There is a lot to think about here], and it is just a micro-sample of all that is to be found in this milestone collection. - Project Muse (Scholarly Journals Online)

Product Description

Edited by leading experts in the field, The Film and Religion Reader brings together the key writings in this exciting and dynamic discipline. In over sixty interviews, essays and reviews from numerous directors, film critics and scholars, this eagerly anticipated anthology offers the most complete survey of this emerging field to date.

Film is now widely studied and researched in theology and religious studies departments, The Film and Religion Reader is therefore ideal for students and researchers, introduced and organized into the following thematic and chronological sections, each with an introduction by the editors:

• the dawn of cinema: adherents and detractors


• the birth of film theory: realism, formalism, and religious vision


• directors and critics: global perspectives – African and Middle-Eastern perspectives; Asian and Australisian perspectives; European perspectives; South and North American perspectives


• theological and Biblical approaches to analysing film


• recent reflections on the relation between religion and film.

This Reader brings together a huge amount of material in a student-friendly format and will be an invaluable resource for courses within both theology and religious studies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 496 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; New edition edition (October 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415404959
• ISBN-13: 978-0415404952
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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