Immanent Frames: Postsecular Cinema Between Malick and Von Trier

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- What Is Postsecular Cinema? An Introduction -- Notes -- Part I: The Poles of Postsecular Cinema: Malick and von Trier -- 1 Two Ways through Life: Postsecular Visions in Melancholia and The Tree of Life -- Transcendence and Immanence: The Tree...

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Main Author: Caruana, John (Author)
Contributors: Cauchi, Mark (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Albany State University of New York Press 2018
In:Year: 2018
Series/Journal:SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema Ser
Further subjects:B Religion in motion pictures
B Postsecularism and motion pictures
B Motion pictures-Religious aspects
B Electronic books
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Parallel Edition:Print version: Caruana, John: Immanent Frames : Postsecular Cinema Between Malick and Von Trier. - Albany : State University of New York Press,c2018. - 9781438470177
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Summary:Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- What Is Postsecular Cinema? An Introduction -- Notes -- Part I: The Poles of Postsecular Cinema: Malick and von Trier -- 1 Two Ways through Life: Postsecular Visions in Melancholia and The Tree of Life -- Transcendence and Immanence: The Tree of Life and Melancholia -- The Way of Transcendence: The Tree of Life -- The Way of Immanence: Melancholia -- The "Affective Sublime" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Hegel, Malick, and the Postsecular Sublime -- The Hegelian Sublime -- Symbolic Art-Form -- Symbolism of the Sublime -- Art of the Sublime -- Truth and the Sublime -- Art, Religion, and Philosophy -- Contemporary Art of the Sublime -- The Tree of Life -- Fragmented Narrative -- Hermeneutic Sublimation -- The Postsecular Sublime -- Notes -- 3 Repetition and Belief: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Malick's The Tree of Life -- Kierkegaard: The Missing Third in Malick's Philosophical Triad -- Repetition and Belief in Malick's The Tree of Life -- Notes -- 4 Toward and Away from the World: Subjectivity After Loss in The Tree of Life -- Notes -- 5 The Death of God and the Genesis of Worldhood in von Trier's Melancholia -- The End of the Secularist World -- Resurrecting the Death of God -- Creation ex nihilo -- Notes -- 6 Notes on Divine Homelessness: A Reading of Lars von Trier's Dogville -- Theologia ludens -- A (Trick-)Playing God -- A Homeless God -- The Politics of Despair -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II: The Spectrum of Postsecular Cinema: Beyond Malick and von Trier -- 7 Face to Face with Chantal Akerman -- Notes -- 8 "There's No Point in Killing a Bad Priest": John Michael McDonagh's Calvary and the Broken Middle -- Introduction -- Film and Religion between Immanence and Transcendence -- The Broken Middle -- Christianity, Mythology, and the Cosmological -- Calvary: A Film Maudit? -- Notes
9 The Immortal Thighs of Ines Orsini: The Transcendence of Grace in Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasions -- Introduction -- The Profanation of the Sacred -- Cielo sulla palude: The "Accursed Film" -- The Invasion of the Barbarians -- The Transcendence of Grace -- "The Girl Who Said No" -- The Sacralization of the Profane -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 10 Three Immersions: Mouchette, Vagabond, Rosetta -- Notes -- 11 "Put Yourself in My Place": Two Days, One Night and the Journey Back to Life -- "Love Thy Neighbor" -- "Put Yourself in My Place" -- Solidarity, Religiere -- Notes -- Part III: Conversations on Postsecular Cinema: Luc Dardenne and Jean-Luc Nancy -- 12 Can We Think the Inconsolable without Consolation? An Interview with Luc Dardenne -- Notes -- 13 Could It Be that Cinema Itself Is Contemporaneity? A Conversation with Jean-Luc Nancy -- Note -- Contributors -- Index
ISBN:1438470185