1st Edition
Exploring Film and Christianity Movement as Immobility
Introduction: Exploring Film and Christianity
Rita Benis and Sérgio Dias Branco
PART I: Theory
1. The European Tradition?: Film and Christianity Beyond the Canon
Catherine Wheatley
2. “My Sister Reality”: The Franciscan Sources of Bazin’s Philosophy of Cinema
John Caruana
3. Toward a Christian Aesthetic of Cinema Flow
Joseph G. Kickasola
PART II: Expression
4. Cinema Places Us Waiting for What?: A Religious Look at the Cinema of João Salaviza
José Tolentino Mendonça
5. Filming the Soul? From Robert Bresson to Manoel de Oliveira
Maria Do Rosário Lupi Bello
6. On Christian Values and Bresson’s Forms: A Contribution to a Philosophical Legacy of Cinema
Maria Irene Aparício
PART III: Depiction
7. Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia: Between Art, Biography and Christianity
Mário Avelar
8. The Striving Promiser: On the Immobile Movement of Promise in The Given Word (1962)
José Manuel Martins
9. Herzog’s Kasper Hauser, or The Enigma of the Hidden God
Paolo Stellino
10. Remembrance of Acto da Primavera in Manoel de Oliveira’s Filmography
Adriana Martins
11. Theft and Return or Bresson’s Grace
Gerard Loughlin
12. To Be Is to Be Free: Cybernetic Life as Christian Subjectivity in Blade Runner 2049
M. Gail Hamner
PART IV: Experience
13. Of Balloons, Bells and Icons: Andrei Rublev from Above
Bruno C. Duarte
14. Silence Is Golden, or How the West Meets Japan in the Theory of Spiritual Film Aesthetics
Dan Chyutin
15. Terrence Malick, or the Portrayal of Marriage as a Sacrament
Pablo Alzola
16. Movement as the Core of Being: Watching Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups Through David Bentley Hart’s Theology
Denys Kondyuk
Biography
Rita Benis is a Researcher at the Center for Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Sérgio Dias Branco is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
