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Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular American Film » Read Now
by Joel W. Martin, Conrad E. Ostwalt, Jr. 194 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...critically at films, we can learn a good deal about religion in the United States...a good deal of religion in contemporary films, we are aware...By examining religion in...
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Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies » Read Now
by Margaret R. Miles. 254 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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American Religious and Biblical Spectaculars » Read Now
by Gerald E. Forshey. 203 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This intriguing book explores why spectacular films involving biblical figures or set in biblical times have been a staple of film-making since talkies began. Forshey looks at these films and suggests that the underlying purpose was to mediate between a monistic scientific world view and a dualistic...
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This intriguing book explores why spectacular films involving biblical figures or set in biblical times have been a staple of film-making since talkies began. Forshey looks at these films and suggests that the underlying purpose was to mediate between a monistic scientific world view and a dualistic religious world view, and between secular and religious ethics. Forshey discusses how filmic, political, religious, and cultural histories influenced filmmakers of these spectaculars. Chapter 1 differentiates between religious spectaculars and biblical spectaculars. The following chapters discuss early religious films and how the post-war and cold war eras led to a struggle to define the righteous nation. Chapters on biblical spectaculars examine films in which sex and social responsibility was a paramount concern (Samson and Delilah, David and Bathsheba). The 1960s were dominated by films about Jesus and the search for an ethical system for a world undergoing rapid social change. One entire chapter is devoted to Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments, the epitome of the biblical spectacular form, followed by a chapter on John Huston's The Bible as a culmination of the form, and a final chapter on how television rethought spectaculars and how Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ drew the battle lines between humanistic Christians and evangelical Christians. American Religious and Biblical Spectaculars will appeal to scholars of film, religion, and popular culture.
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Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film » Read Now
by Lloyd Baugh. 337 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Baugh traces the development of the Jesus-film and through critical film and theological analysis show us the limitations of this genre. Baugh analyzes several important and often prize-winning films showing how each film-maker has created a valid and often complex and challenging metaphor of the...
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Baugh traces the development of the Jesus-film and through critical film and theological analysis show us the limitations of this genre. Baugh analyzes several important and often prize-winning films showing how each film-maker has created a valid and often complex and challenging metaphor of the Christ-event. He questions many of the traditional approaches to religious film, and offers a new approach and new criteria for the appreciation and judgment of these films.
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Hollywood's America: Social and Political Themes in Motion Pictures (Chap. 6 "Religious Decline?") » Read Now
by Stephen Powers, David J. Rothman, Stanley Rothman. 300 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

Hollywood's America is a balanced discussion of unique breadth and depth on a subject of national importance.
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The Jew in American Cinema » Read Now
by Patricia Erens. 462 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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The Making of Jesus, in The Christian Century » Read Now
by John Dart. 6 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...its Web site (www.genesisnewmediabible.com)--the same films produced in the 1970s on the opening chapters of Genesis and the...after many discussions with Bright. But asked...
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Mel Gibson Meets Marc Chagall: How Christians & Jews Approach the Cross, in Commonweal » Read Now
by John A. Coleman. 4 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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Moses and Egypt: The Documentation to the Motion Picture the Ten Commandments » Read Now
by Henry S. Noerdlinger, Cecil B. Demille. 202 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...always ten in number in any religion which adheres to...Testament. Among these religions, however, different...there are variances in the numbering of...and Moslems and...
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Redeemed in Blood: The Sacramental Universe of Martin Scorsese, in Journal of Popular Film and Television » Read Now
by Ricrard A. Blake. 8 pgs.

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...relationship between religion and movies, and in particular between Catholicism and the films of Martin Scorsese...recreates that world in his films. Scorsese himself...
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Hollywood, Nazism and the Jews, 1933-41, in American Jewish History » Read Now
by Felicia Herman. 29 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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Saint Paul at the Movies: The Apostle's Dialogue with American Culture » Read Now
by Robert Jewett. 186 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

"Robert Jewett presents an original and fascinating entry into Pauline theology through the use of contemporary classics. Each major Pauline theme is paired with a companion film. By pointing out both similarities and divergences between the two, Jewett adds to the understanding and appreciation of...
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"Robert Jewett presents an original and fascinating entry into Pauline theology through the use of contemporary classics. Each major Pauline theme is paired with a companion film. By pointing out both similarities and divergences between the two, Jewett adds to the understanding and appreciation of both media".--Richard A. Blake, S.J., teacher and film reviewer.
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Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia (Section 3 "Visual Media") » Read Now
by Lawrence A. Babb, Susan S. Wadley. 302 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...between Indian film and religion from the mediums earliest days. It was in fact religious films -- the so-called mythologicals...that ostensibly secular films are in fact...