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Immanent Frames: Postsecular Cinema Between Malick and Von Trier

Immanent Frames: Postsecular Cinema Between Malick and Von Trier

Caruana, John
Cauchi, Mark

Hardcover

Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema

PhilosophyFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1438470177
ISBN13: 9781438470177
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jun 1 2018
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.

For some time now, thinkers across the humanities and social sciences have increasingly called into question the once-dominant view of the relationship between modernity and secularism, prompting some to speak of a postsecular turn. Until now, film studies has largely been silent about this development, even though cinema itself has been a major vehicle for such reflection. This fact became inescapable in 2011 when Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and Lars von Trier's Melancholia were released within days of each other. While these two audacious and controversial films present seemingly opposite perspectives-the former a thoughtful meditation on faith, the latter a portrayal of nontriumphalist atheism-together they raise critical questions about transcendence and immanence in modern life. These films are, however, only the most conspicuous of a growing body of works that call forth similar and related questions-what this collection aptly calls postsecular cinema.

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