Immanent Frames

Postsecular Cinema between Malick and von Trier

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.For some time now, thinkers across the humanities and social sciences have increasingly called into question the once-dominant view of the relationship between modernity and secularism, prompting some to speak of a "postsecular turn." Until now, film studies has largely been silent about this development, even though cinema itself has been a major vehicle for such reflection. This fact became inescapable in 2011 when Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life and Lars von Trier's Melancholia were released within days of each other. While these two audacious and controversial films present seemingly opposite perspectives-the former a thoughtful meditation on faith, the latter a portrayal of nontriumphalist atheism-together they raise critical questions about transcendence and immanence in modern life. These films are, however, only the most conspicuous of a growing body of works that call forth similar and related questions-what this collection aptly calls "postsecular cinema."Taking the nearly simultaneous release of The Tree of Life and Melancholia as its starting point and framing device, this pioneering collection sets out to establish the idea of postsecular cinema as a distinct body of films and a viable critical category. Adopting a film-philosophy approach, one group of essays examines Malick's and von Trier's films, while another looks at works by Chantal Akerman, Denys Arcand, the Dardenne brothers, and John Michael McDonagh, among others. The volume closes with two important interviews with Luc Dardenne and Jean-Luc Nancy that invite us to reflect more deeply on some of the central concerns of postsecular cinema.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-01-02
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Antal sidor306
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438470160

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IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsWhat Is Postsecular Cinema? An IntroductionJohn Caruana and Mark CauchiPart I. The Poles of Postsecular Cinema: Malick and von Trier 1. Two Ways through Life: Postsecular Visions in Melancholia and The Tree of Life Robert Sinnerbrink2. Hegel, Malick, and the Postsecular SublimeLambert Zuidervaart3. Repetition and Belief: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Malick’s The Tree of Life John Caruana4. Toward and Away from the World: Subjectivity After Loss in The Tree of Life Steven Rybin5. The Death of God and the Genesis of Worldhood in von Trier’s Melancholia Mark Cauchi6. Notes on Divine Homelessness: A Reading of Lars von Trier’s Dogville Costica BradatanPart II. The Spectrum of Postsecular Cinema: Beyond Malick and von Trier 7. Face to Face with Chantal AkermanWilliam Rothman8. "There’s No Point in Killing a Bad Priest": John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary and theBroken MiddleCatherine Wheatley9. The Immortal Thighs of Ines Orsini: The Transcendence of Grace in Denys Arcand’s The Barbarian Invasions Russell J. A. Kilbourn10. Three Immersions: Mouchette, Vagabond, Rosetta Charles Warren11. "Put Yourself in My Place": Two Days, One Night and the Journey Back to LifeSarah CooperPart III. Conversations on Postsecular Cinema: Luc Dardenne and Jean-Luc Nancy 12. Can We Think the Inconsolable without Consolation? An Interview with Luc DardenneLuc Dardenne13. Could It Be that Cinema Itself Is Contemporaneity? A Conversation with Jean-Luc NancyJean-Luc NancyContributorsIndex