Religion in Contemporary European Cinema : The Postsecular Constellation (Hardcover)

Introduction: Dealing (Visibly) in "Things not Seen" Costica Bradatan 1. Deconstructing Christianity in Contemporary European Cinema: Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam and Jean-Luc Nancy’s Dis-enclosure Catherine Wheatley 2. ‘Casting Fire onto the Earth’: The Holy Fool in Russian Cinema Alina Birzache 3. The New Aesthetics of Muslim Spirituality in Turkey: Yusuf’s Trilogy By Semih Kaplano?lu Asuman Suner 4. Pasolini: Religion and Sacrifice Geoffrey Nowell-Smith 5. Entangled in God’s Story. A Reading of Krzysztof Kie?lowski’s Blind Chance Costica Bradatan 6. The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Sound and the Neighbour in Kie?lowski, Haneke, Martel Paul Coates 7. Bruno Dumont’s Cinema: Nihilism and the Disintegration of the Christian Imaginary John Caruana 8. Religion against Religion in Lars von Trier Camil Ungureanu 9. The Banalities of Evil: Polanski, Kubrick, and the Reinvention of Horror Nathan Abrams 10. Postsecular Ethics: The Case of Inarritu’s Biutiful Robert Sinnerbrink 11. Understanding Religion and Film in ‘Post-secular’ Russia Jolyon Mitchell Final Remarks: What is the Use of Postsecularism? Conceptual Clarifications and Two Illustrations Camil Ungureanu