Sinopsis :

Moviemakers have always been interested in angels, heaven, and the spiritual dimension of the human experience. It is an international phenomenon. As these pages reveal, films produced in a wide variety of countries and over many decades have depicted the spiritual dimension with a wide range of approaches. How well have they done? Do their depictions coincide with the actual encounters of people who have had near-death experiences or received after-death communications or death-bed visions? Or do their depictions relate far more to fantasy? Do films incorporate or ignore the well-documented contact thousands of ordinary people have had with the spiritual dimension and which has been vividly described by scientists, doctors, nurses, and a wide variety of other people in books and articles published during the last few decades?

This book explores these fascinating questions by examining the link between the fictive world of the cinema and the actual experiences of ordinary people around the globe who have reported their contacts with the spiritual dimension. Some filmmakers come very close to the veracity of the phenomenon they incorporate into their movies while others completely miss it or achieve some degree of commonality with that reality. 

A complete annotated filmography is provided, with additional information on each movie discussed in the main text. A glossary defines unusual terminology. A brief annotated bibliography is included, to guide readers to interesting books on near-death experiences, after-death communications, death-bed visions, and related subjects. 

 

Deskripsi Buku :

Author : Pratibha A. Dabholkar, Ph.D.

Tahun : 2019