Shayne Lee
Cinema, Black Suffering, and Theodicy: Modern God
Cinema, Black Suffering, and Theodicy: Modern God
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The book explores how films intersect black suffering and God-talk to create secular limitations to divine efficacy, offering a new method of analysis that reimagines theodical discourses as mechanisms of modern identities and filmmakers as skillful exegetes. It demonstrates how cinematic theodicy navigates a happy medium between affirming divine benevolence and sidelining supernatural activity, and how filmic characters triangulate rationality, faith, and tragedy. It also offers critical insights into cinema's relevance to the sociology of evil, coding and narrating malevolent actions and outcomes, demarcating clear lines of distinction between victims and perpetrators, clarifying societal dynamics driving inequality and oppression, and transforming individual episodes of suffering into collective and memorialized identities of trauma.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 15 May 2024
Publisher: Lexington Books
This book explores the intersection of black suffering and God-talk in films, challenging secular limitations to divine efficacy. It introduces a modern concept of God and employs a new analytical method to reimagine theodical discourses as mechanisms of modern identities and filmmakers as skillful exegetes. Shayne Lee demonstrates how cinematic theodicy navigates a happy medium between affirming divine benevolence and sidelining supernatural activity, and how filmic characters triangulate rationality, faith, and tragedy. Lee also offers critical insights into cinema's relevance to the sociology of evil, specifying how films code and narrate malevolent actions and outcomes, demarcate clear lines of distinction between victims and perpetrators, clarify societal dynamics driving inequality and oppression, and transform individual episodes of suffering into collective and memorialized identities of trauma. The book illuminates how filmic treatments of theodicy construct evil and suffering in calculated ways that connect specific acts, effects, and institutions to greater structures of meaning.
Weight: 372g
Dimension: 227 x 151 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666904239
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