Each month, we will feature a book from the Lumina College Library handpicked by our librarian. Our Book of the Month for March is:
我們每一個月都會從館藏書籍中，精選一本為你推介。3月推介好書是：
Title: Believing in Film: Christianity and Classic European Cinema
Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Company Limited
Editors: Mark Le Fanu
Synopsis
Many of the greatest directors of classic European cinema (the period from the end of World War II to roughly the middle of the 1980s) were passionately interested not only in the spiritual life but in the complexities of religion itself. In his new book Mark Le Fanu examines religion, and specifically Christianity, not as the repository of theological dogma but rather as an energizing cultural force – an 'inflexion' – that has shaped the narrative of many of the most striking films of the twentieth century. Discussing the work of such cineastes as Eisenstein and Tarkovsky from Russia; Wajda, Zanussi and Kieslowski from Poland; France's Rohmer and Bresson; Pasolini, Fellini and Rossellini from Italy; the Spanish masterpieces of Buñuel, and Bergman and Dreyer from Scandinavia, this book makes a singular contribution to both film and religious studies.
About the author
Mark Le Fanu is a well-known writer on film who has contributed regular pieces and columns to Sight and Sound, Positif and the East-West Review. A former Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge, he was from 1993-2008 Director of Studies in Film History at the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark. He is the author of The Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky (1987) and Mizoguchi and Japan (2005), which was shortlisted in its year of publication for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award.
To check out this book, and the thousands of other books in our library, we welcome you to join our community of lifelong learners.
查看此書和其他館藏書籍及資源，歡迎加入我們的學習群體。