Film and Faith
Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe
Film and Faith
Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe
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Film and Faith: Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe explores religious themes in contemporary film with a focus on recent depictions of religion’s continuing manifestations in a secularizing age. The contributors are students of philosophy, political theory, and theology; examine religious and philosophical ideas in commercially and artistically important modern films. They offer a scholarly yet accessible considerations of contemporary films exploring the problem of faith in the modern world. The approach is balanced: sympathetic but not uncritical, reflecting a complexity in the minds of the contributors themselves. While they are religious believers, nonetheless established scholars trained in mainstream academic disciplines. The chapters cover cinema that are important in different ways, and that represent different genres: from the art films of Terrence Malick to the more conventional but serious dramas of the Coen brothers and Frank Capra, to popular action blockbusters like the Dark Knight and the Marvel films. Drawing on these cinematic works, the authors explore religious themes that remain salient even in a time when religion seems to be in decline: themes such as sin and judgment, the experience of grace and reconciliation, and confrontation with radical evil.
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Chapter 1: “Fantasies of Fallen Man”: Reading Robert Eggers’s The Northman in Light of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Catholic Aesthetics, J. Columcille Dever
Chapter 2: Gran Torino: The Sins of Walt Kowalski, Matthew J. Franck
Chapter 3: Flying the Faithless Skies: Up in the Air, Susan McWilliams Barndt
Part II: The Workings of Grace in a Fallen World
Chapter 4: God, Man, and George Bailey: The Theological Anthropology of It’s a Wonderful Life, Francis J. Beckwith
Chapter 5: Gravity and Gratitude, Christopher Tollefsen
Chapter 6: Receptivity to Grace and the Affirmation of Life: Reflections on Babette’s Feast,
Kirstin Carlson and David McPherson
Chapter 7: Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups: A Pilgrim’s Progress, R. Michael Olson
Part III: Faith and the Confrontation with Radical Evil
Chapter 8: Radical Evil and Redemption in the Dark Knight Trilogy, Micah Watson
Chapter 9: Thanos, Thor, and Theodicy: The Problem of Evil in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Jordan J. Ballor
Chapter 10: Tradition, Demonic Evil, and Despair in No Country for Old Men, Carson Holloway
Chapter 11: Malick on Martyrdom: A Hidden Life, Jennifer A. Frey
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| Published | Nov 21 2023 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 220 |
| ISBN | 9781666934052 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Series | Politics, Literature, & Film |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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