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Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: The Spiritual in Film

Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: The Spiritual in Film

Worley, Taylor
Johnston, Robert K.
Settle, Zachary Thomas

Hardcover

Film StudiesGeneral ArtGeneral Christianity

Publisher Price: $49.00

ISBN10: 1498223109
ISBN13: 9781498223102
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: Aug 24 2016
Pages: 222
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Films are modern spiritual phenomena. They function as such in at least three profound ways: world projection, thought experiments, and catharsis (i.e., as dreams, doubt, and dread). Understanding film in this way allows for a theological account of the experience that speaks to the religious possibilities of film that far extend the portrayal of religious themes or content. Dreams, Doubt, and Dread: The Spiritual in Film aims to address films as spiritual experiences. This collection of short essays and dialogues examines films phenomenologically--through the experience of the viewer as an agent having been acted upon in the functioning of the film itself. Authors were invited to take one of the main themes and creatively consider how film, in their experiences, has provided opportunities for new modes of thinking. Contributors will then engaged one another in a dialogue about the similarities and differences in their descriptions of film as spiritual phenomena. The intended aim of this text is to shift contemporary theological film engagement away from a simple mode of analysis in which theological concepts are simply read into the film itself and begin to let films speak for themselves as profoundly spiritual experiences.

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