Cinema and Sentiment Films Cha

Marsh, Clive

ISBN 10: 1625643489 / ISBN 13: 9781625643483

Published by Wipf & Stock, 2014

About this Item

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Seller Inventory # 00069005770

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cinema and Sentiment Films Cha
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1625643489
• ISBN 13: 9781625643483
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

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. He is also the author of Albrecht Ritschl and the Problem of the Historical Jesus and co-author of Jesus and the Gospels.