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The Pedagogical Challenges of Finding Christ Figures in Film

Deacy, Christopher (2008) The Pedagogical Challenges of Finding Christ Figures in Film. In: Watkins, Gregory, ed. Teaching Religion and Film. Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, pp. 129-140. ISBN 978-0-19-533598-9. (doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335989.003.0009) (KAR id:13231)

Abstract

One of the challenges for theology is the apparent ease with which one can search for correlations between religious narratives/imagery and movie narratives/imagery, and the hunt for Christ figures in movies is certainly leading the pack. Such projects can reach absurd limits, to the point that either Christ figures are simply in the eye of the beholder or the correlations are so flat as to be uninteresting. With so much of that kind of mediocre work going on, Deacy asks these key analytical questions: When is theology an integral part of a film, and when is it brought to a film? To address these challenges of method, he encourages us to push theological considerations beyond Christ typology and into a deeper examination of both the concept of the movie as a whole and its theological implications.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335989.003.0009
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages
Depositing User: Chris Deacy
Date Deposited: 17 Apr 2009 13:02 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Mar 2023 11:29 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/13231 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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