Peculiar Portrayals Mormons on the Page, Stage and Screen / edited by Mark T. Decker and Michael Austin. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

Center and periphery: Mormons and American culture in Tony Kushner's Angels in America/ Cristine Hutchison-Jones-- -- Four consenting adults in the privacy of their own suburb: Big love and the cultural significance of Mormon polygamy/ Michael Austin-- -- Teaching under the banner of heaven: testing the limits of tolerance in America/ Kevin Kolkmeyer-- -- Avenging angels: the Nephi archetype and blood atonement in Neil Labute, Brian Evenson, and Levi Peterson, and the making of the Mormon American writer/ J. Aaron Sanders-- -- Elders on the big screen: film and the globalized circulation of Mormon missionary images/ John-Charles Duffy ; -- "I constructed in my mind a vast, panoramic picture": the miracle life of Edgar Mint and postmodern, postdenominational Mormonism/ Mark T. Decker-- -- Jane Austen in Mollywood: mainstreaming Mormonism in Andrew Black's Pride and prejudice/ Juliette Wells-- -- Reality corrupts, reality television corrupts absolutely/ Karen D. Austin.