Believing in film : Christianity and classic European cinema /

• Main Author: Le Fanu, Mark (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2020.
• Series: Cinema and society.
• Subjects: Χριστιανισμός στον κινηματογράφο.; Κινηματογράφος > Θρησκευτικές απόψεις > Χριστιανισμός.; Κινηματογράφος > Ευρώπη

We live in a secular world and cinema is part of that secular edifice. There is no expectation, in modern times, that filmmakers should be believers - any more than we would expect that to be the case of novelists, poets and painters. Yet for all that this is true, many of the greatest directors of...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Russia: Tarkovsky, Eisenstein and Christianity
• Poland: a trio of Catholics
• France: the apostasy of Robert Bresson
• Italy: Christianity and neo-realism
• Scandinavia: Lutheran interludes
• Spain: the heresies of Don Luis
• Russia again: millennial faith and nihilism
• Afterword.