Faith and Form on Screen

To understand any aspect of being-in-the-world in general or cinematic experience in particular, both reductionist and holistic approaches are needed. Psychological accounts can give us only functional explanations of human behaviour or responses to signifying artifacts such as art. To understand th...

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Main Author: Bacon, Henry 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2016]
In: Religions
Year: 2016, Volume: 7, Issue: 11, Pages: 1-14
Further subjects:B film form
B Paul Schrader
B film style
B David Bordwell
B transcendental style
B Slavoj Žižek
B Faith
B pickpocket
B Robert Bresson
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