Experiencing Transcendence – Contemporary Religious Cinema
Abstract
In her article the author tries to capture the changes that are taking place in contemporary religious cinema. A number of artists are reviving this art form, but with a significant change in the accents - for example the emphasis on the body as a necessary medium of spirituality. In this manner personal experience becomes a dominating meta-category. Using this category and religiously oriented phenomenology of film, Stańczyk distinguishes three basic varieties of religious film: the contemplative cinema, epiphanic cinema and ecstatic cinema. These new formulas have been placed against the background of wider changes in the humanities associated primarily with the affective turn.
Keywords:
religious cinema, spirituality, affective turn, phenomenology of filmReferences
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Marta Stańczykkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
Absolwentka filmoznawstwa i wiedzy o nowych mediach na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim, doktorantka w zakresie nauk o sztuce na Wydziale Zarządzania i Komunikacji Społecznej tamże. Pod opieką naukową prof. dra hab. Krzysztofa Loski przygotowuje rozprawę na temat multisensorycznego odbioru kina i potencjału krytycznego sensuous theory. Redaktorka magazynu „FUSS”.
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