Imaging Religion in Film

1. Introduction: Interpreting Religion and Film

1. Introduction: Interpreting Religion and Film
M. Gail Hamner

Part I. Film Study

2. Akira Kurosawa: “What Is a Thing?”; Posing the Religious in Dersu Uzala (1975)
M. Gail Hamner

3. Abbas Kiarostami: The Face of Modernity; Alienation and Transcendence in Taste of Cherry (1997)
M. Gail Hamner

4. Joel and Ethan Coen: Searching for a Way Out; Alienation and Intimacy in The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
M. Gail Hamner

Part II. Theoretical Reflections

5. Religious Realism
M. Gail Hamner

6. Concluding Thoughts
M. Gail Hamner

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of Religion, Film History, Social Aspects of Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Society, Film and Television Studies