Film And The Afterlife (Routledge Studies In Religion And Film) - 9780367785482

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This book explores how post-death existence is represented in popular film, looking at issues such as continuity, personal identity, and the nature of existence beyond the grave. Film often returns to the theme of dying, death and the afterlife, both directly and indirectly, because there are very few subjects as compelling and universal. The book compares the representation of death, dying and the afterlife in films to scholarly surveys of attitudes towards life-after-death through the analysis of twenty films made between the end of World War II and now. It looks at the portrayals of stages between death and a final destination; spatio-temporal and personal continuity; the nature of afterlife existence in terms of embodiment, or not; and the contact between the worlds of the living and the dead. This book offers a wide-ranging view on a compelling subject in film. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Religion and Film, Religion and Media, the Philosophy of Religion, and the Sociology of Religion, as well as Religion, Media and Film Studies more generally .


  • | Author: David Rankin
  • | Publisher: Routledge
  • | Publication Date: Mar 31, 2021
  • | Number of Pages: 194 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 036778548X
  • | ISBN-13: 9780367785482
Author:
David Rankin
Publisher:
Routledge
Publication Date:
Mar 31, 2021
Number of pages:
194 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
036778548X
ISBN-13:
9780367785482