Research Catalog

Title

Imaging religion in film : the politics of nostalgia / M. Gail Hamner.

Author

Hamner, M. Gail, 1963-

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Details

Description

xvii, 193 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Imaging Religion in Film offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film, one that foregrounds film's social power both to shape subjectivity and to image contemporary social contradictions. Specifically, the text develops a Foucauldian ethics of the subject, or 'pedagogy of self,' a Deleuzian-Peircean semiotic for discussing religion in film, and a theory of religion within postmodernity that rethinks transcendence alongside a politically galvanizing nostalgia. This theoretical work prefaces analyses of three specific films: Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala (1972); Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry (1997); and the Coens' The Man Who Wasn't There (2001).

Series Statement

New approaches to religion and power

Uniform Title

New approaches to religion and power

Subject

• Motion pictures > Moral and ethical aspects
• Motion pictures > Religious aspects
• Nostalgia in motion pictures
• Religion in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Akira Kurosawa: "what is a thing?': posing the religious in Dersu uzala (1975) -- Kiarostami: the face of modernity: alienation and transcendence in Taste of cherry (1997) -- Joel and Ethan Coen: searching for a way out: alienation and intimacy in The man who wasn't there (2001) -- Religious realism -- Concluding thoughts.

ISBN

• 9780230339866
• 0230339867

LCCN

^^2011023757

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library