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The Tamil Language as More Central than Even the Gods: The Movie THIRUVILAYADAL (IN 1965) Is an Outlier as a Devotional Film
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 9, issue 2 (2023), pp. 127-142
"The narrow genre of devotional films in India follows a regular template – a combination of theophanic interventions, bhakti (devotional) worship and didactic narratives. Thiruvilayadal (The Divine Play, Akkamappettai Paramasivan Nagarajan, 1965), a film in Tamil (a language spoken across South a
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Visuelle Wahrheit und diskursive Deutung: Eine Feldbeschreibung katholischer Filmarbeit in Leitgedanken, Arbeitsbereichen und kulturellen Kommentaren
Deep Insights
Bonn: Deutsche Bischofskonferenz, Sekretariat (2021), 198 pp.
"Katholische Filmarbeit dient der kirchlichen Gemeinschaft und dem Dialog zwischen Kirche und Gesellschaft. Sie ist in vielen Segmenten der Filmbranche und Kreativwirtschaft engagiert: in der Herstellung von Filmen bzw. Bewegtbildformaten und ihrer Verbreitung durch Vertrieb und Verleih, in der film
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Sinnfragen des Lebens im Film: Ein Lexikon zu Religion im Film mit 1500 Kurzkritiken
Marburg: Schüren; Katholische Filmkommission für Deutschland (2018), 336 pp.
"Die besprochenen Filme setzen sich mit Sinnfragen in vielfältiger Weise auseinander: Sie behandeln zum einen konkret die Erfahrungen mit - nicht nur - christlicher Religion und Kirche: Wie wird z. B. filmisch das Verhältnis von Islam zur westlichen Moderne reflektiert? Wie setzen sich die christl
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Trauma, Memory and Religion
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 4, issue 1 (2018), pp. 7-77
"How can we screen trauma? This question might lead the perception of documentary movies about atrocities in the 20th and 21st centuries, like S21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Rithy Panh, CAMB/FR 2003) about Cambodia, The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, ID/DK 2014) about Indonesia or Das Ra
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Iranian Religious Film and Inter-Religious Understanding
Exchange: Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research, volume 41, issue 2 (2012), pp. 165-198
"The article deals with two recent Iranian films, al-Masih (Teh Messiah) by Nader Talebzadeh and Maryam al-Muqaddasah (Holy Mary) by Shahriar Bahrani. Both movies are about religious characters shared by Islam and Christianity: Zechariah, Mary and Jesus. The article explores the way the filmmakers h
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Visions, Images, and Dreams: Yiddish Film, Past and Present
Teaneck, New Jers.: Holmes & Meier, revised and expanded ed. (2011), xvi, 272 pp.
Encyclopedia of Religion and Film
Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO (2011), xix, 644 pp.
"Organized alphabetically, this encyclopedia provides more than 90 entries on the larger religious traditions, the major film-producing regions of the globe, the films that have stirred controversy, the most significant religious symbols, and the more important filmmakers. The included topics provid
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Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films
The Continuum Companion to Religion and Film
London: Continuum (2009), x, 426 pp.
The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2009), xiv, 503 pp.
Der unterhaltsame Gott: Theologie populärer Filme
Paderborn et al.: Schöningh (2008), 168 pp.
"Die Filmindustrie »ist nur religiös, wenn sie einen Markt dafür sieht. Die produziert nur die Kekse, die auch gegessen werden« (Regisseur Paul Verhoeven). Auch Gott und Religion sind solche »Kekse«! Offenkundig handelt es sich bei Unterhaltungsfilmen mit religiösen Motiven um Produkte, die d
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Spirit Cinema: Handbuch des spirituellen Films
Berlin: Allegria (2008), 351 pp.
"Die 300 wichtigsten Spielfilme, Dokumentationen und TV-Movies mit spirituellem Hintergrund, ausführlich vorgestellt und besprochen mit Photos, Filmographie und Bezugsquellen-Hinweisen. Dazu Porträts der wichtigsten deutschen und internationalen Regisseure, Hintergründe der Filmentstehung und Reg
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Media and Religion
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 4, issue 1 (2007), pp. 1-102
Religion and Film: An Introduction
London; New York: Tauris (2007), vi, 244 pp.
"From silent films to contemporary blockbusters, religion has always proved a popular theme for the cinema. However, all too often religion and film are discussed from narrowly confessional perspectives, with the result that the field has long been dominated by the question of a film's fidelity to a
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Theology Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Critical Christian Thinking
London: Routledge (2007), x, 192 pp.
"Drawing a comparison between religion and cinema-going, this text examines a range of contemporary films in relation to key theological concepts. Cinema as a religion-like activity is explored through cognitive, affective, aesthetic and ethical levels, identifying the religious aspects in the socia
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Visions of Paradise: Images of Eden in the Cinema
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2006), ix, 220 pp.
Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema
London: Routledge (2006), x, 198 pp.
"Filming the Gods examines the role and depiction of religion in Indian cinema, showing that the relationship between the modern and the traditional in contemporary India is not exotic, but part of everyday life. Concentrating mainly on the Hindi cinema of Mumbai, Bollywood, it also discusses India'
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Saints, Clergy and Other Religious Figures on Film and Television: 1895-2003
Deep Insights
Jefferson: McFarland (2005), 192 pp.
