Download or read book Imaging Religion in Film written by M. Gail Hamner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds film's social power both to shape subjectivity and to image contemporary social contradictions and analyses three specific films: Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala ; Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry ; and the Coens' The Man Who Wasn't There .