Peculiar Portrayals Mormons on the Page, Stage and Screen / [print]
edited by Mark T. Decker and Michael Austin.
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, (c)2010.
- 1 online resource (203 pages) : illustrations ;
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Center and periphery: Mormons and American culture in Tony Kushner's Angels in America/ Four consenting adults in the privacy of their own suburb: Big love and the cultural significance of Mormon polygamy/ Teaching under the banner of heaven: testing the limits of tolerance in America/ Avenging angels: the Nephi archetype and blood atonement in Neil Labute, Brian Evenson, and Levi Peterson, and the making of the Mormon American writer/ Elders on the big screen: film and the globalized circulation of Mormon missionary images/ "I constructed in my mind a vast, panoramic picture": the miracle life of Edgar Mint and postmodern, postdenominational Mormonism/ Jane Austen in Mollywood: mainstreaming Mormonism in Andrew Black's Pride and prejudice/ Reality corrupts, reality television corrupts absolutely/ Cristine Hutchison-Jones-- -- Michael Austin-- -- Kevin Kolkmeyer-- -- J. Aaron Sanders-- -- John-Charles Duffy ; -- Mark T. Decker-- -- Juliette Wells-- -- Karen D. Austin.