Film and the Afterlife

(livre en anglais)

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de David Rankin

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Sociologie

Mots Clés

mort, religion

Année d'édition

2021

Editeur

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Studies in Religion and Film

1ere édition

2019

Langue

anglais

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Format

Broché • 202 pages
16 x 24 cm

ISBN

978-0-367-78548-2

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Description de l'ouvrage :
This book explores how post-death existence is represented in popular film, looking at issues such as continuity, personal identity, and the nature of existence beyond the grave. Film often returns to the theme of dying, death and the afterlife, both directly and indirectly, because there are very few subjects as compelling and universal.

The book compares the representation of death, dying and the afterlife in films to scholarly surveys of attitudes towards life-after-death through the analysis of twenty films made between the end of World War II and now. It looks at the portrayals of stages between death and a final destination; spatio-temporal and personal continuity; the nature of afterlife existence in terms of embodiment, or not; and the contact between the worlds of the living and the dead.

This book offers a wide-ranging view on a compelling subject in film. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Religion and Film, Religion and Media, the Philosophy of Religion, and the Sociology of Religion, as well as Religion, Media and Film Studies more generally

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À propos de l'auteur :
David Rankin is an ordained minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and has served as both Principal of Trinity College Queensland, Australia, and Head of the School of Theology at Griffith University, Australia. His publications in the field include　Tertullian and the Church (1995), From Clement to Origen　(2006), Athenagoras　(2009), and The Early Church and the Afterlife (2017).

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