Joel Martin, Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr.

Screening The Sacred

Religion, Myth, And Ideology In Popular American Film

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Produktbeschreibung

Screening the Sacred provides fresh and welcome insight for film criticism and holds far-reaching relevance for the study of religion. It is written for students, scholars, and other readers interested in religion, popular film, and the impact of each on American culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780367317904
• ISBN-10: 0367317907
• Artikelnr.: 58065190

Autorenporträt

Joel W. Martin is associate professor of American studies and religious studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is the author of Sacred Revolt: The Muskogees' Struggle for a New World. Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr. is associate professor of religious studies at Appalachian State University. He is the author of After Eden: The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Seeing the Sacred on the Screen
Theological Criticism
Shall These Bones Live? The Problem of Bodies in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Joel Coen's Blood Simple
Angels in the Primum Mobile: Dimensions of the Sacred in William Kennedy's Ironweed, Novel and Film
The Christian Allegorical Structure of Platoon
Hollywood and Armageddon: Apocalyptic Themes in Recent Cinematic Presentation
Mythological Criticism
Star Wars: A Myth for Our Time
With Eyes Uplifted: Space Aliens as Sky Gods
Evolution of "The New Frontier" in Alien and Aliens: Patriarchal Co
optation of the Feminine Archetype
Ideological Criticism
Redeeming America: Rocky as Ritual Racial Drama
From Revelation to Dream: Allegory in David Lynch's Blue Velvet
Women Spoken For: Images of Displaced Desire
Conclusion: Religion, Film, and Cultural Analysis