Article: 4. Theology and film.(Religion and Film)

French film theorist Andre Bazin focuses much of his attention on the ontology of the cinematographic image (1971, 1996). This Roman Catholic critic compares film to the art of embalming the dead, to the Egyptian religious practice of trying to preserve life by representing it. Philosophical explanations of an epistemology of film develop from the Reformed tradition of scholars like Plantinga (Plantinga & Smith, 1999; Carroll, 1990) who brings the cognitive-affective theory of film spectatorship into the forefront of an inquisition on the nature of film. How do a spectator's rational mental activities underlie his or her affective responses to film? Even as philosophers ...

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