{"product_id":"religion-and-film-cinema-and-the-re-creation-of-the-world-9780231176750","title":"Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eReligion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing, mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing, and other production activities, film takes the world \"out there\" and refashions it. Religion achieves similar ends by setting apart particular objects and periods of time, telling stories, and gathering people together for communal actions and concentrated focus. The result of both cinema and religious practice is a re-created world: a world of fantasy, a world of ideology, a world we long to live in, or a world we wish to avoid at all costs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eReligion and Film \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces readers to both religious studies and film studies by focusing on the formal similarities between cinema and religious practices and on the ways they each re-create the world. Explorations of film show how the cinematic experience relies on similar aesthetic devices on which religious rituals have long relied: sight, sound, the taste of food, the body, and communal experience. Meanwhile, a deeper understanding of the aesthetic nature of religious rituals can alter our understanding of film production. Utilizing terminology and theoretical insights from the study of religion as well as the study of film, \u003ci\u003eReligion and Film \u003c\/i\u003eshows that by paying attention to the ways films are constructed, we can shed new light on the ways religious myths and rituals are constructed and vice versa. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis thoroughly revised and expanded new edition is designed to appeal to the needs of courses in religion as well as film departments. In addition to two new chapters, this edition has been restructured into three distinct sections that offer students and instructors theories and methods for thinking about cinema in ways that more fully connect film studies with religious studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eS. Brent Plate is a writer, editor, and visiting associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College. His books include \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making\u003c\/i\u003e (2003); \u003ci\u003eBlasphemy: Art That Offends\u003c\/i\u003e (2006); and \u003ci\u003eA History of Religion in 51\/2 Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses \u003c\/i\u003e(2014). Plate is also cofounder and managing editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eMaterial Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503151419666,"sku":"9780231176750","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d48bceff-9d37-4fa1-9c6c-cfdb82acd1af.jpg?v=1730783958","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/religion-and-film-cinema-and-the-re-creation-of-the-world-9780231176750","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}