Exploring Film and Christianity

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.

• Introduction: Exploring Film and ChristianityRita Benis and Sérgio Dias BrancoPART I: Theory1. The European Tradition?: Film and Christianity Beyond the CanonCatherine Wheatley2. “My Sister Reality”: The Franciscan Sources of Bazin’s Philosophy of CinemaJohn Caruana3. Toward a Christian Aesthetic of Cinema FlowJoseph G. KickasolaPART II: Expression4. Cinema Places Us Waiting for What?: A Religious Look at the Cinema of João SalavizaJosé Tolentino Mendonça5. Filming the Soul? From Robert Bresson to Manoel de OliveiraMaria Do Rosário Lupi Bello6. On Christian Values and Bresson’s Forms: A Contribution to a Philosophical Legacy of CinemaMaria Irene AparícioPART III: Depiction7. Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia: Between Art, Biography and ChristianityMário Avelar8. The Striving Promiser: On the Immobile Movement of Promise in The Given Word (1962)José Manuel Martins9. Herzog’s Kasper Hauser, or The Enigma of the Hidden GodPaolo Stellino10. Remembrance of Acto da Primavera in Manoel de Oliveira’s FilmographyAdriana Martins11. Theft and Return or Bresson’s GraceGerard Loughlin12. To Be Is to Be Free: Cybernetic Life as Christian Subjectivity in Blade Runner 2049M. Gail HamnerPART IV: Experience13. Of Balloons, Bells and Icons: Andrei Rublev from AboveBruno C. Duarte14. Silence Is Golden, or How the West Meets Japan in the Theory of Spiritual Film AestheticsDan Chyutin15. Terrence Malick, or the Portrayal of Marriage as a SacramentPablo Alzola16. Movement as the Core of Being: Watching Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups Through David Bentley Hart’s TheologyDenys Kondyuk