Film, Lacan and the Subject of Religion A Psychoanalytic Approach to Religious Film Analysis

• Main Author: Nolan, Steve
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2011; Bloomsbury; Continuum
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: 1901-1981; Lacan, Jacques; Moral and ethical aspects; Motion pictures; Psychological aspects; Religion in motion pictures; Religious aspects

In their study of religion and film, religious film analysts have tended to privilege religion. Uniquely, this study treats the two disciplines as genuine equals, by regarding both liturgy and film as representational media. Steve Nolan argues that, in each case, subjects identify with a represented...