Film and Religion

Name: Film and Religion
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ISBN: 9780687334896

ISBN-10: 0687334896

ISBN-13: 9780687334896

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert Torry, Paul V. M. Flesher

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How major-release films use religion to tell stories and convey messages 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. The authors post their ongoing ideas in their blog at http://filmandreligion.blogspot.com.

Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 6/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Paul V. M. Flesher is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Wyoming. Flesher helped establish the International Organization for Targumic Study and is the founding editor of Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture . He lives in Laramie, Wyoming.




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Ultimate destruction and the Cold War in the 1950s



Religion, science fiction, and the bomb



Making Rome Christian



The ten commandments and America's fight against tyranny



Filming Jesus



The Messiah of peace



The accidental superstar



Tormenting Christ



Violence and redemption



Varieties of religion in American film



The devil : screening humanity's enemy



God as alien : humanity's helper



Religion and scandal, crime and innocence



The religion of baseball



World religions in film



American dharma



Jewish films : finding the path between Torah and modernity



Islam and fanaticism : only in the eye of the beholder?