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Introduction: cinema in the Biblical sense / Mike Hertenstein -- Bergman's Trilogy of faith, persona, and faith in narrative / Bill Scalia -- Roberto Rossellini and religion in the post-war era / Jason Simpkins -- Music, light, and the Kierkegaardian instant in Kieslowski's The double life of Véronique and Blue / Isil Ozcan -- Sacred in Bresson: Au hasard Balthazar / Joseph Cunneen -- Carl Theodor Dreyer and the problem of Christian realism / Kenneth R. Morefield -- "A state of mind, not a way of thinking": the spiritual cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky / Terence McSweeney -- Cinematic epiphanies: Eric Rohmer and the transcendence of the ordinary / John Caruana -- The Brothers Dardenne: responding to the face of the other / Doug Cummings -- From dogmatism to mysticism: the evolution of faith in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's cinema / Gilda Boffa -- Beliefs of a non-believer: spirituality and religion in the films of Ousmane Sembène / Patrick L. Day -- The fragility of faith in the films of Guillermo del Toro / Siobhan O'Flynn -- Pedro Costa's "Vanda trilogy" and the limits of narrative cinema as a contemplative art / Darren Hughes
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""Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema"" is a fascinating introduction to spiritual aspects in the works of some of the greatest filmmakers in the world, like Bergman, Dreyer and Tarkovsky, Avant Garde director Pedro Costa and Hollywood's golden boy Guillermo del Toro. It covers directors from around the world and shows diverse manifestations of spirituality in film; everything from how camera movements can imply spirituality to specific religions, like Islam and Christianity. ""Fai ..
