Spiritual Sensations

The secular, pluralist culture of the West encourages a subjective approach to spiritual truth where stimulating emotional experiences, such as those provided by film, can contribute to personal conceptions of the sacred. Examining Stanley Kubrick''s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) as the principal case-study and Gaspar Noé''s Enter the Void (2009) and Lars von Trier''s Melancholia (2011) as comparat...