[ecrea] new book Moralizing Cinema: Film, Catholicism, and Power

JUST PUBLISHED

"Moralizing Cinema: Film, Catholicism, and Power" (Routledge, 2015), 
edited by Daniel Biltereyst and Daniela Treveri Gennari

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415712644/


This volume, edited by Daniel Biltereyst and Daniela Treveri Gennari, is 
part of the recent interest in the study of religion and popular media 
culture (cinema in particular), but it strongly differs from most of 
this work in this maturing discipline. Contrary to most other edited 
volumes and monographs on film and religion, Moralizing Cinema does not 
focus upon films (cf. the representation of biblical figures, religious 
themes in films, the fidelity question in movies), but rather looks 
beyond the film text, content or aesthetics, by concentrating on the 
cinema-related actions, strategies and policies developed by the 
Catholic Church and Catholic organizations in order to influence cinema. 
Whereas the key role of Catholics in cinema has been well studied in the 
USA (cf. literature on the Legion of Decency and on the Catholic 
influenced Production Code Administration), the issue remains unexplored 
for other parts of the world. This book includes case studies on 
Argentina, B
elgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, and the USA.


"Finally, an investigation that demonstrates the close negotiation 
between film policies and filmmakers, power and art, ethics and 
aesthetics, as influenced by a variety of Catholic- inspired 
initiatives. This is a much needed intervention into the study of film 
and culture alike." — Ernest Mathijs, University of British Columbia, Canada

"This is a timely book providing well-researched case studies about the 
historical influence of religious organizations (in this case the 
Catholic Church) in the production, distribution, exhibition and 
consumption of films, from policies and leaders to censorship and 
audiences. A required text for cinema and media students and scholars 
interested in a comprehensive analysis of a relevant but 
under-researched topic. -- Jose-Carlos Lozano, Texas A&M University, USA



TABLE OF CONTENT

Editors’ introduction: Catholics, cinema and power: An introduction

Part 1. Policies

1.      Guido Convents: Resisting the lure of the modern world. 
Catholics, international politics, and the establishment of the 
International Catholic Office for Cinema  (1918-1928)
2.      Dario Viganò: The Church, cinema and the ‘culture of dialogue’: 
Italian Catholics and the movies after the Second World War
3.      Thomas Doherty: The rise and fall of Catholic Hollywood, or from 
the Production Code to The Da Vinci Code
4.      Francisco Peredo-Castro: Catholicism and Mexican cinema. A 
secular state, a deeply conservative society and a powerful Catholic 
hierarchy

Part 2. Leaders

5.      Paul Lesch: Jean Bernard’s fight for 'good' cinema in Luxembourg
6.      Mélisande Leventopoulos: An alternative way of moralizing 
cinema: Father Flipo’s remedy for the Catholic Church’s propaganda 
failure in France (1945-1962)
7.      Elena Dagrada: A Triple Alliance for a catholic neorealism: 
Father Morlion and Roberto Rossellini

Part 3. Technology and production

8.      Karel Dibbetts: A Catholic voice in talking pictures: the 
International Eidophon Company (1930-1934)
9.      Federico Ruozzi: Pius XII as actor and subject: on the 
representation of the papal figure in cinema and television during the 
1940s and 1950s
10.     Tomaso Subini: The Failed Project of a Catholic Neorealism: On 
Rossellini, Andreotti, Morlion and the Catholic Film Action

Part 4. Censorship and control

11.     Kevin Rockett: Protectionism and Catholic film policy in 
twentieth-century Ireland
12.     Maria Elena de las Carrera: A case of entente cordiale between 
State and Church: Catholics and film control in Argentina (1954-1984)
13.     Mariagrazia Fanchi: The ‘Ideal Film’. On the transformation of 
the Italian Catholic film and media policy in the 1950s and the 1960s

Part 5. Exhibition and cinema-going experiences

14.     Thunnis van Oort: Separating the sheep from the goats: Gendering 
space in the Cinema Auditorium in Rucphen (1929)
15.     Daniel  Biltereyst: “I think Catholics didn’t go to the cinema”: 
Catholic film exhibition strategies and cinema-going experiences in 
Belgium, 1930s-1960s
16.     Daniela Treveri Gennari: Moralizing cinema while attracting 
audiences: Catholic film exhibition in post-war Rome

Notes on contributors
Index



Prof.dr. Daniel Biltereyst
Centre for Cinema and Media Studies - Dept. of Communication Science - 
Ghent University
Korte Meer 11 - B-9000 Gent - Belgium
E: (daniel.biltereyst /at/ ugent.be) - P: +3292646864 - PSecr: +3292646890
http://www.cims.ugent.be/members/daniel-biltereyst - 
http://ugent.academia.edu/DanielBiltereyst


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