S. Brent Rodriguez Plate, visiting associate professor of religious studies, recently published the book, Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World, with the London-based film studies press, Wallflower (distributed in the U.S. via Columbia UP). The book is one of the first truly interdisciplinary works on the topic, investigating religions via film studies, and film via religious studies.
Religions and films are akin, Plate argues, in that they both create worlds for their seers, hearers, doers and believers. At the altar and before the screen, audiences are invited to become participants via myths and rituals, cinematography and editing.
Religions and films are akin, Plate argues, in that they both create worlds for their seers, hearers, doers and believers. At the altar and before the screen, audiences are invited to become participants via myths and rituals, cinematography and editing.
