The conference on Religion and Cinema will bring together visual artists, film critics and historians, and scholars of religion to examine religious expression in film. Avant-garde filmmaker Nick Dorsky will open the conference on Friday evening with a screening of his short films and a talk on devotional cinema. Saturday's sessions will focus on the French cinema of the late Sixties and American films of the Forties and Fifties. On Sunday a discussion of Japanese cinema will open the question of the degree to which scholarly assumptions about "religion and film" have been distorted by almost exclusive attention to Christian examples.

Speakers will include Dudley Andrew, Nathaniel Dorsky, William LaFleur, Christine Marran, Tony Pipolo, Sally Shafto, P. Adams Sitney, Jeffrey Stout, and Judith Weisenfeld.

Religion Department | Center for the Study of Religion | Visual Arts Department
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