Film, Lacan and the Subject of Religion: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Religious Film Analysis

by Steve Nolan

Book Overview

In their study of religion and film, religious film analysts have tended to privilege religion. Uniquely, this study treats the two disciplines as genuine equals, by regarding both liturgy and film as representational media. Steve Nolan argues that, in each case, subjects identify with a represented 'other' which joins them into a narrative where they become participants in an ideological 'reality'. Finding many current approaches to religious film...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441133151
• ISBN13: 9781441133151
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"