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“Short Film Is Where Innovative Storytelling Is Born” Using the Science Fiction Short Film in the Religious Studies and Sociology Classroom

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dc.creatorOrnella, Alexander Darius
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-25T17:13:19Z
dc.date.available2023-05-25T17:13:19Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstract“Short film is where innovative storytelling is born” – the website shortoftheweek.com, a curated short film website, boldly and proudly declares. Such a bold and proud statement draws attention because short films lead a Cinderella existence: too often neglected, ignored, or not taken seriously, yet immensely rich, rewarding, and provocative. Their length but also their rich opportunities for engagement and immersion make short film an ideal conversation partner in the religious studies and the sociology classroom. The speculative fiction short, the science fiction short, and the documentary short are particularly able to document, address, visualize – and thus render visible – structures and hierarchies of power, financial and economic interest, gender, or resource distribution and the fears and anxieties about what it means to be human. This contribution demonstrates that shorts, in particular science fiction shorts, can act as conversation partners in the religious studies and sociology classroom, even if the student-audience might not be particular avid science fiction film fans. In this contribution, I make references to three shorts, RISE (David Karlak, USA 2016), CODE 8 (Jeff Chan, USA/Canada 2016), BLACK SHEEP (Ed Perkins, UK 2018), and will provide a more in-depth discussion of the use of RISE in the classroom.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.8:2022.2.4
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19601
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/305
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20801
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectScience Fictionen
dc.subjectShort Filmen
dc.subjectReligious Studiesen
dc.subjectSociologyen
dc.subjectClassroomen
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.title“Short Film Is Where Innovative Storytelling Is Born” Using the Science Fiction Short Film in the Religious Studies and Sociology Classroomen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2023-05-25T19:38:23
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/305
local.source.epage64
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleAcademic Teaching with Short Films in Religion and Ethics
local.source.spage49
local.source.volume8

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