Catching light : looking for God in the movies /
Anker, Roy M,
Catching light : looking for God in the movies / [print] Roy Anker. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Company, (c)2004. - x, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Utterly lost : Michael Corleone's descent in The Godfather saga -- "The design of darkness to appall" : metaphysical evil in Chinatown -- "Just come home" : violence and redemption in The deer hunter -- "The wings of a dove" : the search for home in Tender mercies -- The place beyond words : image and meaning in Places in the heart -- The laughter beyond tears : love's redemptive call in The mission -- "In the regions of the heart" : the meeting of art and belief in Babette's feast -- Tracking the force : meaning and morality in the Star wars saga -- The super-man : displaying the incarnation in Superman -- "Earth's the place for love" : the lost boy's search for home in three Steven Spielberg movies -- Of angels and headaches : the unexpected god of Grand Canyon -- The war of the roses : meaning and epiphany in American beauty -- The sound of the color of love : the construction of meaning in Kieslowski's Three colors: blue.
9780802827951
2004058375
GBA458364 bnb
012968154 Uk
Motion pictures--Religious aspects.
PN1995.A611.C383 2004 PN1995
Catching light : looking for God in the movies / [print] Roy Anker. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Company, (c)2004. - x, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Utterly lost : Michael Corleone's descent in The Godfather saga -- "The design of darkness to appall" : metaphysical evil in Chinatown -- "Just come home" : violence and redemption in The deer hunter -- "The wings of a dove" : the search for home in Tender mercies -- The place beyond words : image and meaning in Places in the heart -- The laughter beyond tears : love's redemptive call in The mission -- "In the regions of the heart" : the meeting of art and belief in Babette's feast -- Tracking the force : meaning and morality in the Star wars saga -- The super-man : displaying the incarnation in Superman -- "Earth's the place for love" : the lost boy's search for home in three Steven Spielberg movies -- Of angels and headaches : the unexpected god of Grand Canyon -- The war of the roses : meaning and epiphany in American beauty -- The sound of the color of love : the construction of meaning in Kieslowski's Three colors: blue.
9780802827951
2004058375
GBA458364 bnb
012968154 Uk
Motion pictures--Religious aspects.
PN1995.A611.C383 2004 PN1995