TY - BOOK AU - Benis,Rita AU - Branco,Sérgio Dias TI - Exploring film and Christianity: movement as immobility T2 - Routledge studies in religion and film SN - 9781003248279 U1 - 791.43/652827 23/eng/20240716 PY - 2025/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Christianity in motion pictures KW - Motion pictures KW - Religious aspects KW - RELIGION / General N2 - "This book examines the connections between film and Christianity, considering how films express and depict Christian faith and spirituality and provide experiences associated with it. The notion of movement as immobility (from Simone Weil) is employed to describe film and its images in motion. Its movements can reconnect us with the movements of the world, those motions in which a mysterious sense of order, what Weil calls 'immobility', arises. Film is understood as a privileged form to access inscrutable spiritual (in)visibilities that can be linked with Christian concepts and practices. The chapters in this volume offer new studies of hailed directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky and Robert Bresson combined with analyses of recent notable films including Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups, Martin Scorsese's Silence, and Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049. Organised around the productive topics of theory, expression, depiction and experience, they make a valuable contribution to interdisciplinary research on film and Christianity"-- UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003248279 ER -