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Christianity and the Culture Machine

Media and Theology in the Age of Late Secularism

By: Vincent F. Rocchio

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Christianity and the Culture Machine

Media and Theology in the Age of Late Secularism

By: Vincent F. Rocchio

Christianity and the Culture Machine is a precedent-shattering approach to combining theories of media and culture with theology. In this intensive examination of Christianity's role in the cultural marketplace, the author argues that Christianity's inability to effectively contest the ideology of secular humanism is not a theological shortcoming, but rather a communications problem: the institutional church is too wedded to an outmoded aesthetic of Christianity to communicate effectively. Privileging authority and obedience over the egalitarian and transformative goal of Christianity, the church fails to recognize how it undermines the vitality of the Christian narrative and message. In the absence of a more compelling vision offered by the official church, a new aesthetic can be found forming within the margins of popular culture texts. Despite its past failures in representing the Bible in mainstream film and television, the culture industry now offers more compelling versions of core Christian theology without even realizing it--within the margins of the main storylines. This book analyzes the aesthetic principles employed by these appropriations and articulations of Christian discourse as a means of theorizing what a new aesthetic of Christianity might look like.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498209807

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9781498209809

Reel Racism

Confronting Hollywood's Construction Of Afro-american Culture

By: Vincent F. Rocchio

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Reel Racism

Confronting Hollywood's Construction Of Afro-american Culture

By: Vincent F. Rocchio

This study looks beyond reflection theories of the media to examine cinema's active participation in the operations of racism - a complex process rooted in the dynamics of representation. Written for undergraduates and graduate students of film studies and philosophy, this work focuses on methods and frameworks that analyze films for their production of meaning and how those meanings participate in a broader process of justifying, naturalizing, or legitimizing difference, privilege, and violence based on race. In addition to analyzing how the process of racism is articulated in specific films, it examines how specific meanings can resist their function of ideological containment, and instead, offer a perspective of a more collective, egalitarian social system - one that transcends the discourse of race.

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294

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Routledge

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0429977379

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9780429977374

Cinema of Anxiety

A Psychoanalysis of Italian Neorealism

By: Vincent F. Rocchio

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Cinema of Anxiety

A Psychoanalysis of Italian Neorealism

By: Vincent F. Rocchio

The "new" realism of Italian cinema after World War II represented and in many ways attempted to contain the turmoil of a society struggling to rid itself of Fascism while fighting off the threat of radical egalitarianism at the same time. In this boldly revisionist book, Vincent F. Rocchio combines Lacanian psychoanalysis with narratology and Marxist critical theory to examine the previously neglected relationship between Neorealist films and the historical spectators they address. Rocchio builds his analysis around case studies of the films Rome: Open City, Bicycle Thieves, La Terra Trema, Bitter Rice, and Senso. Through the lens of psychoanalysis, he challenges the traditional understanding of Neorealism as a progressive cinema and instead reveals the anxieties it encodes: a society in political turmoil, an economic system in collapse, and a national cinema in ruins; while war, occupation, collaboration, and retaliation remain a part of everyday life. These case studies demonstrate how Lacanian psychoanalysis can play a key role in analyzing the structure of cinematic discourse and its strategies of containment. As one of the first books outside of feminist film theory to bring the ideas of Lacan to theories of cinema, this book offers innovative methods that reinvigorate film analysis. Clear and detailed insights into both Italian culture and the films under investigation will make this engaging reading for anyone interested in film and cultural studies.

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University of Texas Press

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0292784961

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9780292784963

Reel Racism

Confronting Hollywood's Construction Of Afro-american Culture

By: Vincent F. Rocchio

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Confronting Hollywood's Construction Of Afro-american Culture

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Analyzes specific films to demonstrate how they participate in the process of racism.

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Westview Press

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0813367107

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Christianity and the Culture Machine

Christianity and the Culture Machine

Reel Racism

Reel Racism

Cinema of Anxiety

Cinema of Anxiety

Reel Racism

Reel Racism

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