Cinema and Sentiment: Film's Challenge to Theology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781625643483)

Cinema & Sentiment Film's challenge to Theology What do films do to people? What do people do with films? All film-watching happens within a cultural context. Exploring cinema-going as leisure activity and by comparing film-watching with worship, Clive Marsh demonstrates aspects of the religious function of film-watching in Western culture. Through a variety of case-studies, including a look at the films of Robin Williams and the Coen brothers, Marsh's study shows how film-watching as a regular practice contributes to the shaping of human living. Engaging with rapidly changing social and religious behaviour patterns in Western culture, Cinema and Sentiment suggests a need to recover a positive sense of 'sentiment', both in theology and film. Marsh locates his findings within recent studies of theology and film. In his final chapter he offers to church leaders, students of theology and film studies and all those with an interest in contemporary culture some very practical suggestions.

Author: Clive Marsh
ISBN-10: 1625643489
ISBN-13: 9781625643483
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2014
Pages: 162
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d