Cinema, Black Suffering, and Theodicy
Modern God
This book explicates how many films intersect black suffering and God-talk in ways that instantiate secular limitations to divine efficacy. The book's concept of a modern God introduces a new method of analysis that reimagines theodical discourses as mechanisms of modern identities and filmmakers as skillful exegetes who recalibrate divine attributes to the sensemaking cadences of their contemporaries. Shayne Lee demonstrates how cinematic theodicy navigates a happy medium between affirming divine benevolence and sidelining supernatural activity and that filmic characters, like their real-world counterparts, are quite clever at triangulating…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-66690-421-5
- EAN: 9781666904215
- Produktnummer: 37693258
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 242 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.8 cm 551 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 551
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