Exploring Film and Christianity

Introduction: Exploring Film and Christianity

Rita Benis and Sergio Dias Branco

PART I: Theory1. 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 Joao Salaviza

Jose Tolentino Mendonca

5. Filming the Soul? From Robert Bresson to Manoel de Oliveira

Maria Do Rosario Lupi Bello

6. On Christian Values and Bresson's Forms: A Contribution to a Philosophical Legacy of Cinema

Maria Irene Aparicio

PART III: Depiction

7. Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia: Between Art, Biography and Christianity

Mario Avelar

8. The Striving Promiser: On the Immobile Movement of Promise in The Given Word (1962)

Jose 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