Description

• Title:
  Sacrifcing uncertainty – prolegomena to the study of post-secular cinema
• Creator:
  Piskorska , Anna Maria
• Description:
  This article undertakes the issue of defining film phenomena which put forward questions of a primary religious nature (about the meaning of life, source of evil, life after death, the existence of Absolute, etc.) in a way that is independent from major religious traditions. The author posits that describing this phenomenon in the case of European film culture is done best by employing the philosophical thought of postsecularism. Utilizing Mieke Bal’s method of cultural analysis, the author takes as an example the term “sacrifice” to point to the existence of different models by which religious topics are undertaken by the cinema. This leads to a preliminary typology of the phenomenon which differentiates between ‘apologetic’ and ‘critical’ films and, furthermore, between films that refer to particular religious traditions and those expressing a postsecular perspective.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 Anna Maria Piskorska;
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Date:
  2021.12.15
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; Vol. 30 No. 39 (2021): The Special Issue: Metaphysics – Transcendence – Atheism; 47-66;
  Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; Tom 30 Nr 39 (2021): The Special Issue: Metaphysics – Transcendence – Atheism; 47-66;
  2720-040X;
  1731-450X
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/30590/27008
• Subject:
  postsecularism;
  postsecular cinema;
  postmodernism;
  cultural analysis;
  Mieke Bal;
  religious flm;
  European cinema;
  Bruno Dumont;
  Hadewijch;
  John McDonagh;
  Calvary;
  Xavier Beauvois;
  Of Gods and Men
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/30590
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text