The Hidden God
DEVOTIONAL CINEMA NATHANIEL DORSKY It is a privilege to have been
invited to speak on religion and cinema ... I ' ll reference a small number of
feature films , all in the well - known canon , but I would like to be clear at the
outset that ...
Author: Mary Lea Bandy
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870703492
Page: 299
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Popular Hindi Cinema
I use this term for convenience only. This argument may also clarify the decline of
devotional films and the fact that they have been relegated to a marginal and
negligible segment of the cinematic production, as well as my choice not to
discuss ...
Author: Ronie Parciack
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317333268
Page: 196
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Cinema in Muslim Societies
One of the striking features of Muslim Devotional films is that their depiction of the
religious shows clear overlaps between the Islamicate and the more strictly
Islamic, in their use of language, musical forms and religious architecture, with
Hindu ...
Author: Ali Nobil Ahmad
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317389611
Page: 184
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Indian Cinema Superbazaar
Thus , while mythological films related to Gods , the devotional films related to
God - men . The effect on the mass audience of both categories of films was
almost the same — to inspire awe and reverence . Broadly , therefore , a '
mythological ...
Author: Aruna Vasudev
Publisher: Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division
ISBN:
Page: 384
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Bollywood
APPENDIX Six GENRES OF BOLLYWOOD FILMS The six genres of Bollywood
films can be characterised as follows : DEVOTIONAL FILMS Devotional films ,
sometimes referred to as mythologicals , are the films with which the Indian film ...
Author: Rajinder Kumar Dudrah
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761934615
Page: 210
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Cinema as Medium of Communication in Tamil Nadu
categories , many of which are broadly social , urban respondents most favoured
the social ( 45 per cent ) followed by family ( 44 per cent ) and devotional films (
38 per cent ) . Rural respondents liked the devotional best ( 42 per cent ) , then ...
Author: C. R. W. David
Publisher:
ISBN:
Page: 93
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The Avatars of Modernity
three crucial periods in the history of Indian filmmaking , and second , I will look at
the films themselves and discuss the way they ... The Early Years : Phalke and
Devotional Cinema The first years of film history saw an interesting mix of people
...
Author: Heinz Werner Wessler
Publisher: Munshirm Manoharlal Pub Pvt Limited
ISBN:
Page: 295
View: 773
The Religion and Film Reader
... 349 ; of screenings 14 , 22 - 4 , 27 – 8 , 430 church / cinema parallels 22 , 298 ,
337 - 41 , 387 Cinema and Sentiment ... The ( Burnett and Martell ) 11 - 12 “
Devotional Cinema ” ( Dorsky ) 389 , 407 - 15 devotional films 129 , 131 , 286 ,
407 ...
Author: Jolyon P. Mitchell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Page: 470
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70 Years of Indian Cinema 1913 1983
and restored the faith of the film-makers working in Punjabi Cinema. Many more
devotional films in Punjabi were launched. Some of the successful ones were '
Nanak Dukhia Sub Sansaar', 'Dhanna Jat', 'Dukh Bhanjan Tera Naam', 'Man
Jeeta ...
Author: T. M. Ramachandran
Publisher: I B D Limited
ISBN:
Page: 649
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Challenges of Societies in Transition
This factor identifies the cinema with the city and makes the rural Hindu more
dependent culturally on the urban centers . ... 13 · The immense popularity of
these devotional films has guaranteed their place for the foreseeable future on
the ...
Author: Ahmednagar College
Publisher: Delhi : Macmillan
ISBN:
Page: 379
View: 524
The Art of Cinema
She appeared in a variety of films — good , bad and indifferent - but will always
be remembered as the girl who very ... he totally transformed Padmini in Jis Desh
Mein Ganga Behti Hai from the goddess of south Indian devotional films into a ...
Author: Bhagwan Das Garga
Publisher: Penguin India
ISBN:
Page: 258
View: 620
December
Indiewood USA
Dorsky Hash Out the Realities of Poetic Cinema ' , indie WIRE , 30 April 2001 ,
accessed via www . indiewire . com . Dorsky sets out his approach to filmmaking ,
although not to this particular example , in Devotional Cinema . 39 . The kind of ...
Author: Geoff King
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
ISBN:
Page: 294
View: 249
Talisman
The Origins of American Film Criticism 1909 1939
The solution lay in the " devotional cinema , " which would imbue " immense
masses of people with that concentrated mystic fervor which the church was once
able to inspire in its devotees . " Only the cinema , " silent conqueror of space ,
time ...
Author: Myron Lounsbury
Publisher: New York : Arno Press, 1973 [c1966]
ISBN:
Page: 547
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The Route
Dorsky , Nathaniel . Devotional Cinema . Berkeley : Tuumba Press , 2005 . - - - - -
, “ The Devotional Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky . ” May 2006 . Jack H . Skirball
Screening Series , Roy and Edna Disney CalArts , Valencia , CA . Durgin , Patrick
.
Author: Patrick F. Durgin
Publisher: Atelos Press
ISBN:
Page: 191
View: 756
Chitra Bani
More successful were the hopes have nevertheless to be entertained " devotional
" films like Dharmatma ( 1935 ) they would seem to lie with the regional and Sant
Tukaram ( 1936 ) depicting the cinemas of India rather than with the all lives of ...
Author: Gaston Roberge
Publisher: Calcutta : Chitra Bani
ISBN:
Page: 274
View: 140
The Cinema of Robert Gardner
Public and private devotional life is shown by detailed visual narratives of the
Chariot Journey of Krishna , celebrated by the whole town with pomp and
circumstance , and the Birthday Festival of Krishna commemorated on a much
smaller ...
Author: Lucien Taylor
Publisher: Berg Publishers
ISBN: 9781845207748
Page: 264
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