Описание: What is the enduring impact of Presbyterianism on what it means to be Scottish? This book examines the emergence and consolidation of such practices in the 18th century Church of Scotland. Using archival research and detailed local case studies, it contrasts them to what is termed a `personal` form of accountability in England in the same period.
Автор: Le Fanu, Mark (university College London, Uk) Название: Believing in film ISBN: 1350160490 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350160491 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 4117.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: We live in a secular world and cinema is part of that secular edifice. There is no expectation, in modern times, that filmmakers should be believers – any more than we would expect that to be the case of novelists, poets and painters. Yet for all that this is true, many of the greatest directors of classic European cinema (the period from the end of World War II to roughly the middle of the 1980s) were passionately interested not only in the spiritual life but in the complexities of religion itself. In his new book Mark Le Fanu examines religion, and specifically Christianity, not as the repository of theological dogma but rather as an energizing cultural force – an ‘inflexion’ – that has shaped the narrative of many of the most striking films of the twentieth century. Discussing the work of such cineastes as Eisenstein and Tarkovsky from Russia; Wajda, Zanussi and Kieslowski from Poland; France’s Rohmer and Bresson; Pasolini, Fellini and Rossellini from Italy; the Spanish masterpieces of Bunuel, and Bergman and Dreyer from Scandinavia, this book makes a singular contribution to both film and religious studies.
Описание: Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural production, Wendy Sutherland examines how representations of blackness in philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the construction of the white bourgeois German self. Sutherland argues that German bourgeois dramas, such as those by Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler, Ernst Lorenz
Описание: Over the 20th century, American Indians fought for the right to be both American and Indian. Rosier traces how Indians defined democracy, citizenship, and patriotism in domestic and international contexts. Native Americans served as a visible symbol of an America searching for rights and justice; American history is incomplete without their story.
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