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Cinema, Black Suffering, And Theodicy: Modern God, Terry Lindvall
Cinema, Black Suffering, And Theodicy: Modern God, Terry Lindvall
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Shayne Lee, Cinema, Black Suffering, and Theodicy: Modern God (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022).
Marungka Tjlatjunu (Dipped In Black), William L. Blizek, Monica Blizek
Marungka Tjlatjunu (Dipped In Black), William L. Blizek, Monica Blizek
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Marungka Tjlatjunu (Dipped in Black) (2023), directed by Matthew Thorne and Derik Lynch.
Winding Path, Monica Blizek
Winding Path, Monica Blizek
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Winding Path (dêtetsi vo’i oninjakan) (2023), directed by Alexandra Lazarowich and Ross Kauffman.
Ekbeh, Monica Blizek
Ekbeh, Monica Blizek
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Ekbeh (2023), directed by Mariah Hernadez-Fitch.
The Moogai, Dereck Daschke
The Moogai, Dereck Daschke
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of The Moogai (2024), directed by John Bell.
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.
Exhibiting Forgiveness, John C. Lyden
Exhibiting Forgiveness, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024), directed by Titus Kaphar.
Demon Mineral, Brady Desanti
Demon Mineral, Brady Desanti
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Demon Mineral (2024), directed by Hadley Austin.
The New Boy, Sherry Coman
The New Boy, Sherry Coman
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of The New Boy (2023), directed by Warwick Thornton.
Hey, Viktor!, Ken Derry
Hey, Viktor!, Ken Derry
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film view of Hey, Viktor! (2023) directed by Cody Lightning.
Limbo, Ken Derry
Limbo, Ken Derry
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Limbo (2023), directed by Ivan Sen.
The Convert, J. Barton Scott
The Convert, J. Barton Scott
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of The Convert (2023), directed by Lee Tamahori.
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 …
Peele’S Black, Extraterrestrial, Naturalistic Critique Of Religion, Jonathan D. Lyonhart
Peele’S Black, Extraterrestrial, Naturalistic Critique Of Religion, Jonathan D. Lyonhart
Journal of Religion & Film
While Jordan Peele’s films have always held their mysteries close to the chest, they eventually granted their viewers some climactic clarity. Get Out (2017) used an 1980s style orientation video to clear up its neuroscientific twist, while Us (2019) had Lupita Nyongo’s underworld twin narratively spell out the details of the plot. Yet Nope (2022) refuses to show its hand even after the game is over, never illuminating the connection between its opening scene and the broader film, nor a myriad of other questions. As such, critics complained that it stitched together two seemingly incongruent plots without explanation; one where …
Art Cinema And India’S Forgotten Futures: Film And History In The Postcolony, Vijay Mishra
Art Cinema And India’S Forgotten Futures: Film And History In The Postcolony, Vijay Mishra
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Rochona Majumdar, Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony (Columbia University Press, 2021).
Mami Wata, John C. Lyden
Mami Wata, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Mami Wata (2023), directed by C.J. "Fiery" Obasi.
Sorcery, John C. Lyden
Sorcery, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Sorcery (2023), directed by Christopher Murray.
The Persian Version, John C. Lyden
The Persian Version, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of The Persian Version (2023), directed by Maryam Keshavarz.
Stellar, Ken Derry
Stellar, Ken Derry
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Stellar (2022), directed by Darlene Naponse.
Gender, Race, And Religion In An African Enlightenment, Jonathan D. Lyonhart
Gender, Race, And Religion In An African Enlightenment, Jonathan D. Lyonhart
Journal of Religion & Film
Black Panther (2018) not only heralded a new future for representation in big-budget films but also gave an alternative vision of the past, one which recasts the Enlightenment within an African context. By going through its technological enlightenment in isolation from Western ideals and dominance, Wakanda opens a space for reflecting on alternate ways progress can—and still might—unfold. More specifically, this alternative history creates room for reimagining how modernity—with its myriad social, scientific, and religious paradigm shifts—could have negotiated questions of race, and, in turn, how race could have informed and redirected some of the lesser impulses of modernity. Similar …
Alice, Sheila J. Nayar
Alice, Sheila J. Nayar
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Alice (2022), directed by Krystin Ver Linden.
Nanny, Sheila J. Nayar
Nanny, Sheila J. Nayar
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Nanny (2022), directed by Nikyatu Jusu.
What They've Been Taught, William L. Blizek
What They've Been Taught, William L. Blizek
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of What They've Been Taught (2022), directed by Brit Hensel.
Maidenhood, William L. Blizek
Maidenhood, William L. Blizek
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Maidenhood (2022) directed by Xóchitl Enríquez Mendoza.
The Territory, John C. Lyden
The Territory, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of The Territory (2022), directed by Alex Pritz.
Utama, Sheila J. Nayar
Utama, Sheila J. Nayar
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Utama (2022), directed by Alejandro Loayza Grisi.
Marte Um, Sheila J. Nayar
Marte Um, Sheila J. Nayar
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Marte Um (2022), directed by Gabriel Martins.
Long Line Of Ladies, William L. Blizek
Long Line Of Ladies, William L. Blizek
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Long Line of Ladies (2022), directed by Rayka Zehtabchi and Shaandiin Tome.
Descendant, Sheila J. Nayar
Descendant, Sheila J. Nayar
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Descendant (2022), directed by Margaret Brown.
Blindspotting And Covid: The Gentrification Of Racism, Ashley Starr-Morris
Blindspotting And Covid: The Gentrification Of Racism, Ashley Starr-Morris
Journal of Religion & Film
The novel Coronavirus is not only exposing old patterns of racism and systemic inequalities, but deepening them as well. The notion of blindspotting, as described in the film by the same name, is used to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic impacts the “spiritual emergency” or crisis of racism in America. "Blindspotting" is an image or situation that can be interpreted in two ways but is understood by some in only one way, thereby producing a blind spot. In 2020 and 2021, we see segments of American society, from politics to white Christian nationalism, upholding a sacred canopy of exceptionalism by …