Imaging Religion in Film: The Politics of Nostalgia

by M. Gail Hamner

Book Overview

This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds film's social power both to shape subjectivity and to image contemporary social contradictions and analyses three specific films: Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala; Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry; and the Coens' The Man Who Wasn't There .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349342408
• ISBN13: 9781349342402
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"