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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Layla, Christopher R. Deacy
Layla, Christopher R. Deacy
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Layla (2024), directed by Amrou Al-Kadhi.
In The Land Of Brothers, John C. Lyden
In The Land Of Brothers, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of In the Land of Brothers (2024), directed by Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi.
Muslim Heroes On Screen, Ahmad Nuril Huda
Muslim Heroes On Screen, Ahmad Nuril Huda
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Daniel O'Brien, Muslim Heroes on Screen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
From Patriarchal Stereotypes To Matriarchal Pleasures Of Hybridity: Representation Of A Muslim Family In Berlin, Rahime Özgün Kehya Dr
From Patriarchal Stereotypes To Matriarchal Pleasures Of Hybridity: Representation Of A Muslim Family In Berlin, Rahime Özgün Kehya Dr
Journal of Religion & Film
Sinan Çetin’s blockbuster Berlin in Berlin (1993) is a Turkish-German co-production. In contrast to certain representational tendencies with German orientalism or Turkish occidentalism, it deconstructs the intersectional structures of migration, religion, and gender. The portrayal of religion in films about Turkish-German labour migration is a kind of cultural narcissism often projected into national cinema by denigrating the faith of the other and glorifying one’s own religion. However, perspectives at such intersections are critical and require sensitivity in filmmaking, as films can create prejudice or help build peaceful relationships around these sensitive issues. The paper employs discourse analysis in linking Derrida’s …
To Live And Die And Live, Christopher R. Deacy
To Live And Die And Live, Christopher R. Deacy
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of To Live and Die and Live (2023), directed by Qasim Basir.
Animalia, John C. Lyden
Animalia, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Animalia (2023), directed by Sofia Alaoui.
The Riz Test: Teaching Against Islamophobia Through Film, Candace Mixon
The Riz Test: Teaching Against Islamophobia Through Film, Candace Mixon
Journal of Religion & Film
This paper offers a concrete tool for teaching against Islamophobia using a film assignment and “the Riz Test.” In four parts, it briefly reviews terminology and literature connected to Islamophobia and Muslimophobia, histories of looking and the power of visual culture, pedagogy and critical viewing habits, the Riz Test, and examples of student engagement and course learning goals met through this assignment. Then, readers can use the concrete tool in their courses and practice critical viewing habits.
This paper was part of a panel on “Teaching Asian Religions Through Film” presented at the Association for Asian Studies conference in Honolulu, …
New Approaches To Islam In Film, Sophia Rose Arjana
New Approaches To Islam In Film, Sophia Rose Arjana
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Kristian Petersen, ed., New Approaches to Islam in Film (New York: Routledge, 2021).
Jihad Rehab, John C. Lyden
Jihad Rehab, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Jihad Rehab (2021), directed by Meg Smaker.
Midwives, Sheila J. Nayar
Midwives, Sheila J. Nayar
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Midwives (2022), directed by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing.
Child Of Empire, Sheila J. Nayar
Child Of Empire, Sheila J. Nayar
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a review of the VR short film, Child of Empire (2022), created by Project Dastaan, which includes the artists Sparsh Ahuja, Erfan Saadati, Stephen Stephenson, and Omi Zola Gupta.
Arab Americans In Film: From Hollywood And Egyptian Stereotypes To Self-Representation, Danielle Haque
Arab Americans In Film: From Hollywood And Egyptian Stereotypes To Self-Representation, Danielle Haque
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Waleed Mahdi, Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation (Syracuse University Press, 2020).
The Return: Life After Isis, John C. Lyden
The Return: Life After Isis, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of The Return: Life After ISIS (2021), directed by Alba Sotorra Clua.
Temporary Marriage In Iran: Gender And Body Politics In Modern Iranian Film And Literature, Alicia Izharuddin
Temporary Marriage In Iran: Gender And Body Politics In Modern Iranian Film And Literature, Alicia Izharuddin
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Claudia Yaghoobi, Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Heroes, Villains And The Muslim Exception: Muslim And Arab Men In Australian Crime Drama, Sana Patel
Heroes, Villains And The Muslim Exception: Muslim And Arab Men In Australian Crime Drama, Sana Patel
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Mehal Krayem, Heroes, Villains and the Muslim Exception: Muslim and Arab Men in Australian Crime Drama.
Queer Muslim Diasporas In Contemporary Literature And Film, Hina Muneeruddin
Queer Muslim Diasporas In Contemporary Literature And Film, Hina Muneeruddin
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Alberto Fernández Carbajal's Queer Muslim Diasporas in Contemporary Literature and Film.
Gender And Patriarchy In The Films Of Muslim Nations: A Filmographic Study Of 21st Century Features From Eight Countries, Candace Mixon
Gender And Patriarchy In The Films Of Muslim Nations: A Filmographic Study Of 21st Century Features From Eight Countries, Candace Mixon
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Patricia R. Owen, Gender and Patriarchy in the Films of Muslim Nations: A Filmographic Study of 21st Century Features from Eight Countries.
No Riddle But Time: Historical Consciousness In Two Islamicate Films, David Sander
No Riddle But Time: Historical Consciousness In Two Islamicate Films, David Sander
Journal of Religion & Film
This article explores ways in which film expresses “internal history” in the context of Muslim cultures. As such, it enquires how film can work as both Islamic art and historical contemplation. The films discussed here, Nacer Khemir’s Wanderers in the Desert and Muhammad Rasoulof’s Iron Island, inhabit and explore the borderline between imagination and reality. The films in question offer an imaginal interspace between “modern” and “traditional” worlds. As such they open up critical perspectives on the meaning of history. What follows is a discussion of how each film offers a window onto differing perceptions of time, and what …
The Gaze And A Sufi Ethics Of Vision In Majidi’S The Willow Tree: Form, Meaning, And The Real, Cyrus A. Zargar
The Gaze And A Sufi Ethics Of Vision In Majidi’S The Willow Tree: Form, Meaning, And The Real, Cyrus A. Zargar
Journal of Religion & Film
In his 2005 film The Willow Tree (Bīd-i Majnūn), Majid Majidi offers a complex moral commentary on the faculty of sight. To do so, the filmmaker draws from Sufi theories of gazing, in which desire must be for ultimate meaning (maʿnā), as conveyed through the vehicle of perceivable form (ṣūra), a distinction with both metaphysical and ethical implications. Majidi presents sight, when devoid of contemplation, as a sort of voyeurism, especially in contrast to the privacy and immediacy of speech and especially within the context of the modern city. Moreover, his use of a …
The Muslim World In Post-9/11 American Cinema: A Critical Study, 2001-2011, Ali A. Olomi
The Muslim World In Post-9/11 American Cinema: A Critical Study, 2001-2011, Ali A. Olomi
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Kerem Bayraktaroglu's The Muslim World In Post-9/11 American Cinema: A Critical Study, 2001-2011 (North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2018).
Saudi Runaway, John C. Lyden
Saudi Runaway, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Saudi Runaway (2020) directed by Susanne Regina Meures.
Yalda, A Night For Forgiveness, John C. Lyden
Yalda, A Night For Forgiveness, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Yalda, A Night for Forgiveness (2019) directed by Massoud Bakhshi.
Fatih Akin's Cinema And The New Sound Of Europe, Seda Öz
Fatih Akin's Cinema And The New Sound Of Europe, Seda Öz
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Berna Gueneli's Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019).
Muslim Women In French Cinema: Voices Of Maghrebi Migrants In France, Shreya Parikh
Muslim Women In French Cinema: Voices Of Maghrebi Migrants In France, Shreya Parikh
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp's Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015).
Blinded By The Light, Amir Hussain
Blinded By The Light, Amir Hussain
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Blinded by the Light (2019) directed by Gurinder Chadha.
Hala, John C. Lyden
Hala, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Hala (2019), directed by Minhal Baig.
Abe, John C. Lyden
Abe, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Abe (2019) directed by Fernando Grostein Andrade.
Visual Grandeur, Imagined Glory: Identity Politics And Hindu Nationalism In Bajirao Mastani And Padmaavat, Baijayanti Roy
Visual Grandeur, Imagined Glory: Identity Politics And Hindu Nationalism In Bajirao Mastani And Padmaavat, Baijayanti Roy
Journal of Religion & Film
This paper examines the tropes through which the Hindi (Bollywood) historical films Bajirao Mastani (2015) and Padmaavat (2018) create idealised pasts on screen that speak to Hindu nationalist politics of present-day India. Bajirao Mastani is based on a popular tale of love, between Bajirao I (1700-1740), a powerful Brahmin general, and Mastani, daughter of a Hindu king and his Iranian mistress. The relationship was socially disapproved because of Mastani`s mixed parentage. The film distorts India`s pluralistic heritage by idealising Bajirao as an embodiment of Hindu nationalism and portraying Islam as inimical to Hinduism. Padmaavat is a film about a legendary …
‘Love-Jihad’ And Bollywood: Constructing Muslims As ‘Other’, Nadira Khatun
‘Love-Jihad’ And Bollywood: Constructing Muslims As ‘Other’, Nadira Khatun
Journal of Religion & Film
In the postcolonial nation state that is India, cinema has become an important tool for propagating the idea of nationalism. In recent times, one of the most controversial components of Hindu nationalism has been the hate campaign against what is termed as ‘love-jihad’, which is deployed as a weapon to mobilize, polarize, and communalize citizens. The Indian Hindi-language film industry, popularly known as Bollywood, has also become a controversial site. In this paper, I argue that if ‘Indian nationalism’ is to be represented as ‘Hindu nationalism’ and ‘Indian culture’ as ‘Hindu culture,’ it logically follows that this majoritarian construction needs …
Reason (Vivek), J. Barton Scott
Reason (Vivek), J. Barton Scott
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Reason (Vivek) (2018), directed by Anand Patwardhan.