Cinema And Sentiment: Film's Challenge To Theology (Studies in Religion and Culture Series) - Softcover

Marsh, Clive

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842272748 ISBN 13: 9781842272749

Publisher: Authentic Media, 2004

Synopsis

Watching any film happens within a cultural context. Cinema and Sentiment critically examines the practice of watching movies in western culture. Clive Marsh demonstrates aspects of the religious function of film-watching by comparing watching movies to worshiping. Through a variety of case studies on the habit of going to the theater, Marsh's study shows how watching films as a regular practice can contribute to the shaping of human living.

Engaging with social and religious behavior patters in western culture, Cinema and Sentiment suggests a need to recover a positive sense of sentiment, both in theology and film. Two concluding chapters locate the text in recent studies of theology and film, offering church leaders, students of theology and film studies, and all those with an interest in contemporary culture practical consequences of the work's findings.

About this title

About the Author

Clive Marsh is secretary of the Faith and Order Committee of the Methodist Church and a part-time lecturer in the Department of Theology at the University of Nottingham. His is also the author of Albrecht Ritschl and the Problem of the Historical Jesus and co-author of Jesus and the Gospels.

Edition details

• Publisher: Authentic Media
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1842272748
• ISBN 13: 9781842272749
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 162