Religion in Contemporary European Cinema: The Postsecular Constellation

ISBN-13: 9781138063082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 226 str.

Costica Bradatan; Camil Ungureanu

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Bringing together scholars form film theory and political science, ethics and philosophy of religion, philosophy of film and theology, this volume casts new light on the relationship between the religious and secular experience after the death of the death of God.

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Introduction: Dealing (Visibly) in "Things not Seen" Costica Bradatan  1. Deconstructing Christianity in Contemporary European Cinema: Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam and Jean-Luc Nancy’s Dis-enclosure  Catherine Wheatley  2. ‘Casting Fire onto the Earth’: The Holy Fool in Russian Cinema Alina Birzache  3. The New Aesthetics of Muslim Spirituality in Turkey: Yusuf’s Trilogy By Semih Kaplanoğlu Asuman Suner  4. Pasolini: Religion and Sacrifice Geoffrey Nowell-Smith  5. Entangled in God’s Story. A Reading of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Blind Chance Costica Bradatan  6. The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Sound and the Neighbour in Kieślowski, Haneke, Martel Paul Coates  7. Bruno Dumont’s Cinema: Nihilism and the Disintegration of the Christian Imaginary John Caruana  8. Religion against Religion in Lars von Trier Camil Ungureanu  9. The Banalities of Evil: Polanski, Kubrick, and the Reinvention of Horror Nathan Abrams  10. Postsecular Ethics: The Case of Iñárritu’s Biutiful Robert Sinnerbrink  11. Understanding Religion and Film in ‘Post-secular’ Russia Jolyon Mitchell  Final Remarks: What is the Use of Postsecularism? Conceptual Clarifications and Two Illustrations Camil Ungureanu