Seeing Is Believing: The Revelation of God Through Film (Studies in Theology and the Arts Series)

By: Richard Vance Goodwin

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Synopsis: How might film reveal God?In its most basic form, film is a series of images displayed over time. Of course, film has developed greatly since the Lumière brothers by adding components such as sound, special effects, digital recording, and more to create an increasingly complex artistic medium. Historically, film studies has often focused on the narrative aspect of film as it seeks to tell a story. More recent studies, however, have turned attention to other elements of film, such as the musical score. Yet, film remains, in a sense, a series of images.In this study, the latest in IVP Academic's Studies in Theology and the Arts (STA) series, theologian Richard Goodwin considers how the images that constitute film might be a conduit of God's revelation. By considering works by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Robert Bresson, Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, and more, Goodwin argues that by inviting emotional responses, film images can be a medium of divine revelation.Blessed are those who have seen God... through film.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 288 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781514002018
Related ISBNs:: 9781514002001
Publisher:: InterVarsity Press
Date of Addition:: 12/09/22
Copyrighted By:: Richard Vance Goodwin.
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Language Arts
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.