Useless beauty : Ecclesiastes through the lens of contemporary film /

Johnston, Robert K., 1945-,

Useless beauty : Ecclesiastes through the lens of contemporary film / [print] Robert K. Johnston. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, (c)2004. - 208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.



A battered optimism : Ecclesiastes and our contemporary context -- The existentialist alternative : Akira Kurosawa and Woody Allen -- Death and life : Alan Ball and American beauty -- The saddest happy ending : Paul Thomas Anderson and Magnolia -- Chance and fate : Tom Tykwer and Run Lola run -- An ambiguous joy : Marc Forster and Monster's ball -- Can God be in this? : M. Night Shyamalan and Signs -- Confessions of a workaholic : Alexander Payne, election, and about Schmidt -- Humanity at full stretch : let the preacher respond.



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Bible.--Ecclesiastes--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Motion pictures--Religious aspects--Christianity.

BS1475 BS1475.J73.U845 2004