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Sin and Divine Punishment: The Korean Series JIOK (HELLBOUND, KR 2021–), New Religious Movements, and a World Full of Guilt
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 9, issue 2 (2023), pp. 87-99
"The TV series Jiok (Yon Sang-ho, 2021-), internationally known as Hellbound, is a recent and highly successful series that has been available on the streaming platform Netflix since November 2021. It is usually described as a "dark mystery thriller" or "dark fantasy film", which points to the gener
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The Tamil Language as More Central than Even the Gods: The Movie THIRUVILAYADAL (IN 1965) Is an Outlier as a Devotional Film
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 9, issue 2 (2023), pp. 127-142
"The narrow genre of devotional films in India follows a regular template – a combination of theophanic interventions, bhakti (devotional) worship and didactic narratives. Thiruvilayadal (The Divine Play, Akkamappettai Paramasivan Nagarajan, 1965), a film in Tamil (a language spoken across South a
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The Representation of Rural Christianity in the Films of Gan Xiao’er
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 9, issue 2 (2023), pp. 101-125
"The religious dimension of Chinese cinema is, it has been observed, a "triple lacuna" in contemporary scholarship: in research on religion in China, in research on Chinese cinema, and in interdisciplinary research on film and religion. From 2002 to 2012, independent filmmaker Gan Xiao'er directed t
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Bible and Film: The Basics
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiii, 207 pp.
"This book examines various types of interplay between film and the Bible. The theme of 'Bible on film' is explored through Hebrew Bible epics including The Prince of Egypt and Noah, and Jesus films such as The Last Temptation of Christ and Son of Man. The theme 'Bible in film' is analyzed through f
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Spiritual Sensations: Cinematic Religious Experience and Evolving Conceptions of the Sacred
London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2021), x, 219 pp.
"The secular, pluralist culture of the West encourages a subjective approach to spiritual truth where stimulating emotional experiences, such as those provided by film, can contribute to personal conceptions of the sacred. Examining Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) as the principal cas
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Visuelle Wahrheit und diskursive Deutung: Eine Feldbeschreibung katholischer Filmarbeit in Leitgedanken, Arbeitsbereichen und kulturellen Kommentaren
Inspiring Practice
Bonn: Deutsche Bischofskonferenz, Sekretariat (2021), 198 pp.
"Katholische Filmarbeit dient der kirchlichen Gemeinschaft und dem Dialog zwischen Kirche und Gesellschaft. Sie ist in vielen Segmenten der Filmbranche und Kreativwirtschaft engagiert: in der Herstellung von Filmen bzw. Bewegtbildformaten und ihrer Verbreitung durch Vertrieb und Verleih, in der film
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Komm und sieh: Religion im Film. Analysen und Modelle
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), vi, 164 pp.
"Der erste große Teil dieses Bandes beschreibt - angefangen bei den "Zehn Geboten" und ihrer Aktualisierung in "The Beach" über das "Opfer" Harry Potters, Blade Runners & Katniss´ in "Tribute von Panem" bis hin zu natürlichen und künstlichen Intelligenzen ("Planet der Affen" und "Ex Machina") -
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The Bible Onscreen in the New Millennium: New Heart and New Spirit
Manchester: Manchester University Press (2020), xx, 278 pp.
"The remarkable commercial success of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ in 2004 came as a surprise to the Hollywood establishment, particularly considering the film’s failure to find production funding through a major studio. Since then the Biblical epic, long thought dead in terms of mains
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Trauma, Memory and Religion
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 4, issue 1 (2018), pp. 7-77
Sinnfragen des Lebens im Film: Ein Lexikon zu Religion im Film mit 1500 Kurzkritiken
Marburg: Schüren;Katholische Filmkommission für Deutschland (2018), 336 pp.
"Die besprochenen Filme setzen sich mit Sinnfragen in vielfältiger Weise auseinander: Sie behandeln zum einen konkret die Erfahrungen mit - nicht nur - christlicher Religion und Kirche: Wie wird z. B. filmisch das Verhältnis von Islam zur westlichen Moderne reflektiert? Wie setzen sich die christl
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La vida en la pantalla: Del cine a la sociedad digital
México, DF: Buena Prensa (2016), 126 pp.
"Con mirada contemplativa, el espectador de cine e internet es capaz de encontrar 'al otro' en la pantalla. Hoy es necesario conmoverse, detenerse ante el prójimo y poner los ojos en la periferias visuales. No importa de qué lado de la pantalla estemos. Cinéfilo y jesuita, el autor de este libro
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SIGNIS and Cinema: Looking for God Behind the Screen
Opole (PL); Brussels: Uniwersytet Opolski, Wydzial Teologiczny;Signis Europe (2016), 85 pp.
Missionsfilm
Westerkappeln (DE): DerWulff.de (2016), 15 pp.
Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Narratives, Cultural Contexts, Audiences
Leiden; Boston, MA: Brill (2016), xiii, 295 pp.
"Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond explores ghost movies, one of the most popular film genres in East and Southeast Asia, by focusing on movie narratives, the cultural contexts of their origins and audience reception. In the middle of the Asian crisis of the late 1990s, ghost movies became m
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The Bible revisited: Neue Zugänge im Film
Marburg: Schüren (2016), 352 pp.
The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and its Reception in Film
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2016), xviii, 921 pp.
"This two-part volume contains a comprehensive collection of original studies by well-known scholars focusing on the Bible’s wide-ranging reception in world cinema. It is organized into sections examining the rich cinematic afterlives of selected characters from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament;
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Audio-Visual Religion in Asia
Material Religion, volume 11, issue 4 (2015), pp. 415-549
An Ever-Widening Screen
Ballarat: Connor Court Publishing (2015), 501 pp.
"We all have many strands in our lives. In this memoir, Peter Malone takes us through his various strands. He is a man of a certain vintage, mainly Irish heritage. He grew up as a Catholic in a pre-Vatican II Church. His call was to a religious congregation from the late 1950s and to priesthood from
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Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2015), xix, 380 pp.
"Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture in turmoil. Birgit Meyer captures the dynamic process of popular filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination
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Biblical Soap Opera Enjoying Ungodly Success in Brazil
San Diego Union Tribune, May 28 (2015)
"Set in ancient Egypt and loosely based on the story of Moses, “The Ten Commandments” is billed as Brazil’s first biblical soap opera. Swathed in Egyptian robes and sporting lapis lazuli jewelry and Cleopatra wigs, some of the characters are based on biblical or other historic figures, while o
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