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Film & religion : an introduction / Paul V.M. Flesher, Robert Torry.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Nashville, TN : Abingdon Press, 2007]Description: xiii, 306 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780687334896
Other title:
  • Film and religion
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1995.5.F611.F556 2007
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Contents:
Christmas films: the search for meaning -- Religion, science fiction, and the bomb -- Making Rome Christian -- The Ten Commandments and America's fight against tyranny -- The messiah of peace -- The accidental superstar -- Tormenting Christ -- Violence and redemption -- The devil: screening humanity's enemy -- God as alien: humanity's helper -- Religion and scandal, crime and innocence -- The religion of baseball -- American dharma -- Jewish films: finding the path between Torah and modernity -- Islam and fanaticism: only in the eye of the beholder?
Summary: "Focusing on American major-release films since World War II, the authors show how films use religious imagery, characters, and symbolism from primarily Christian, but also Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Islamic traditions. Ideal for classroom use, each chapter analyzes significant contextual issues through the lens of select films. Films include: How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, When Worlds Collide, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Quo Vadis; The Robe, The Ten Commandments, King of Kings; Jesus Christ, Superstar, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Passion of Christ, The Exorcist, The Omen, Close Encounters of The Third Kind, Agnes of God, The Apostle, The Natural, Field Of Dreams, Little Buddha, The Legend of Bagger Vance, The Chosen, The Quarrel, Destiny, My Son the Fanatic."--Jacket.
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Christmas films: the search for meaning -- Religion, science fiction, and the bomb -- Making Rome Christian -- The Ten Commandments and America's fight against tyranny -- The messiah of peace -- The accidental superstar -- Tormenting Christ -- Violence and redemption -- The devil: screening humanity's enemy -- God as alien: humanity's helper -- Religion and scandal, crime and innocence -- The religion of baseball -- American dharma -- Jewish films: finding the path between Torah and modernity -- Islam and fanaticism: only in the eye of the beholder?

"Focusing on American major-release films since World War II, the authors show how films use religious imagery, characters, and symbolism from primarily Christian, but also Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Islamic traditions. Ideal for classroom use, each chapter analyzes significant contextual issues through the lens of select films. Films include: How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, When Worlds Collide, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Quo Vadis; The Robe, The Ten Commandments, King of Kings; Jesus Christ, Superstar, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Passion of Christ, The Exorcist, The Omen, Close Encounters of The Third Kind, Agnes of God, The Apostle, The Natural, Field Of Dreams, Little Buddha, The Legend of Bagger Vance, The Chosen, The Quarrel, Destiny, My Son the Fanatic."--Jacket.

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