Religious traditions have provided a seemingly endless supply of subject matter for film, from the Ten Commandments to the Mahabharata . At the same time, film production has engendered new religious practices and has altered existing ones, from the cult following of The Rocky Horror Picture Show to the 2001 Australian census in which 70,000 people indicated their religion to be 'Jedi Knight'. Representing Religion in World Cinema begins with these mutual transformations as the contributors query the two-way interrelations between film and religion across cinemas of the world. Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary by nature, this collection by an international group of scholars draws on work from religious studies, film studies, and anthropology, as well as theoretical impulses in performance, gender, ethnicity, colonialism, and postcolonialism.

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"...argues persuasively for conceptualizing a georeligious film aesthetic. It does so by examining the infinitely varied processes by which films from diverse cultures and nations embody religious ideas and values which themselves are revitalized in the quintessential twentieth-century art form. This multi-disciplinary, multi-national volume promises to open up new perspectives on the complex relationships among religion, culture, spectatorship and cinema." - Matthew Bernstein, Emory University

"Representing Religion in World Cinema: Mythmaking, Filmmaking, Culture Making is a far-ranging, provocative collection that pushes the boundaries of religion-and-cinema studies way beyond where, for too long, they have rested too comfortably. The essays are carefully selected and usefully introduced by Brent Plate, so the volume will be most useful in the university classroom." - Ron Grimes, Wilfrid Laurier University

About the authors

S. BRENT PLATE is Assistant Professor of Religion and the Visual Arts at Texas Christian University. His previous publications include Imag(in)ing Otherness: Filmic Visions of Living Together, The Apocalyptic Imagination: Aesthetics and Ethics at the End of the World and Religion, Art, and Visual Culture (Palgrave).

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Book Title: Representing Religion in World Cinema
Book Subtitle: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making
Editors: S. Brent Plate
Series Title: Religion/Culture/Critique
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-10034-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6050-4Published: 17 February 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6051-1Published: 17 February 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-10034-4Published: 30 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-6355
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6363
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 272
Topics: Media Studies, Religious Studies, general, Philosophy, general, Film History, Regional and Cultural Studies

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making

Introduction: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making

Re-mythologizing Cinema

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Jai Santoshi Maa Revisited:

“My Story Begins Before I Was Born”:

Orpheus on Screen:

Between Time and Eternity: