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Auteur(s) : Balstrup, Sarah K.
Titre(s) : Spiritual sensations [Texte imprimé] : cinematic religious experience and evolving conceptions of the sacred / Sarah K. Balstrup
Publication : London ; New York (N.Y.) : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (viii-219 p.) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 193-216. Index
"The secular, pluralist culture of the West encourages a subjective approach to spiritual
truth where stimulating emotional experiences, such as those provided by film, can
contribute to personal conceptions of the sacred. Examining Stanley Kubrick's 2001:
A Space Odyssey (1968) as the principal case-study and Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void
(2009) and Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011) as comparative examples, Sarah Balstrup
argues that these directors harness the affective properties of film to generate altered
states of perception in a manner analogous to religious practice. Powerful feelings
of dissociation and indescribable significance typical of mystical testimony appear
in viewer responses to these films, demonstrating the continued sacralisation of such
states of mind. In their own way, each film confronts the viewer with an apocalyptic
revelation of the impersonal forces of the universe, moving away from personhood and
the human narrative, into pure sensation. They present a non-deterministic spiritual
truth that can be intuited but not explained, mirroring developments in the religious
sphere. Investigating the relationship between cinematic technique and religious experience,
Spiritual Sensations offers an alternative approach to the study of religion and film
that has been principally focused on narrative symbolism and the dramatisation of
values. Spiritual Sensations makes a further contribution to the field by analysing
films contextually, considering viewers' subjective responses in light of religious
and cultural change"
Sujet(s) : 2001, a space odyssey (film)
Melancholia (film)
Enter the Void (film)
Expérience religieuse
Cinéma et religion
Indice(s) Dewey :
204.2 (23e éd.) = Expérience religieuse (religion) ; 791.436 82 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Thèmes et concepts religieux
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781350130173 (rel.). - ISBN 1350130176. - ISBN 9781350130180 (erroné). - ISBN
9781350130197 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb466284223
Notice n° :
FRBNF46628422
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Table des matières : Introduction: Religious experience in the cinema ; Religion and film ; Religious
experience ; 2001: a space odyssey; cosmos and ethos ; 2001: a space odyssey and
meditative perception ; 2001: a space odyssey : crossing the perceptual threshold
; Enter the void : the initiatory moment ; Enter the void : initiatory trauma, psychedelics
and the lightning-bolt path ; Melancholia : in dreadful beauty and trembling ; Melancholia
: presence in absence/the long withdrawing roar ; Conclusion: spiritual sensations.