Cinema as a Sacred Surface: Ritual Rememoration of Transcendence
Walid El Khachab, York University Abstract Theoreticians of Cinema and the Sacred, like H. Agel, tend to study the representation of the Sacred in Film. But some, like S. Brent Plate, argue that cinema is sacred by essence, because it recreates the world through narrative and editing, like a demiurge god. On the other hand, […]