Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema
This book has now been printed and will be available shortly--here's a link to the order page at Amazon.com.
The following is a preliminary Table of Contents:
1) Mike Hertenstein (Flickerings)--Introduction and Overview
2) Bill Scalia (St. Mary's Seminary & University)--"Bergman's Trilogy of Faith, Persona, and Faith in Narrative."
3)Jason Simpkins (University of Kent at Canterbury)--"Roberto Rossellini and Religion in the Post-War Era."
4) Isil Ozcan (Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey)--"Music, Light, and the Kierkegaardian Instant in Kieslowski's The Double Life of Véronique and Blue."
5) Joseph Cunneen (CROSS CURRENTS; Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style in Film)--"The Sacred in Bresson: Au Hasard Balthazar."
6) Kenneth R. Morefield (Campbell University)--"Carl Theodor Dreyer and the Problem of Christian Realism."
7) McSweeney, Terence -- "'To Plough and Harrow the Soul': The Spiritual Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky.".
8) John Caruana (Ryerson University)--"Cinematic Epiphanies: Eric Rohmer and the Transcendence of the Ordinary."
9) Doug Cummings (Filmjourney)--"Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and the Faces of Others."
10) Gilda Boffa (Concordia University)--"From Dogmatism to Mysticism: The Evolution of Faith in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Cinema."
11) Patrick L. Day (University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire)--, "Beliefs of a Non-Believer: Spirituality and Religion in the Films of Ousmane Sembene."
12) Siobhan O'Flynn (University of Toronto; Canadian Film Center)--""The Fragility of Faith in Guillermo del Toro's Cronos, The Devil's Backbone, and Pan's Labyrinth."
13)Darren Hughes (Long Pauses)--"Pedro Costa's 'Vanda Trilogy' and the Limits of Narrative Cinema as a Contemplative Art."
I'm really excited about this project. It is my hope that the anthology could serve as an introduction for burgeoning cinephiles and help elevate the discourse surrounding faith and spirituality in film without being so technical as to be inaccessible.