Explorations in theology and film :movies and meaning /edited by Clive Marsh and Gaye Ortiz.

Name/Title

Explorations in theology and film :movies and meaning /edited by Clive Marsh and Gaye Ortiz.

Description

Films, movies, meanings / David Browne -- Film and theologies of culture / Clive Marsh -- The uses of film in theology / David John Graham -- From domination to mutuality in The Piano and in the Gospel of Mark / David Rhoads and Sandra Roberts -- The drama of salvation in George Steven's Shane / Robert Banks -- Edward Scissorhands: christology from a suburban fairy-tale / Peter Malone -- Redeeming violence in the films of Martin Scorsese / David John Graham -- Liberation in Awakenings / Ian Maher -- Jesus Christ movie star: the depiction of Jesus in the cinema / William R. Telford -- The Terminator movies: hi-tech holiness and the human condition / Gaye Ortiz and Maggie Roux -- Stuck in time: kairos, chronos and the flesh in Groundhog Day / Robert Jewett -- Moral ambiguity and contradiction in Dead Poets Society / Stephen Brie and David Torevell -- Between Eden and Armageddon: institutions, individuals, and identification in The Mission, The Name of the Rose, and Priest / Vaughan Roberts -- The spirituality of Shirley Valentine / Clive Marsh -- Did you say "grace"?: eating in community in Babette's Feast / Clive Marsh -- Optimism, hope, and feelgood movies: the Capra connection / Stephen Brown -- On systematizing the unsystematic: a response / David Jasper -- Theology beyond the modern and the postmodern: a future agenda for theology and film / Clive Marsh and Gaye Ortiz. ix, 286 p. :ill. ;24 cm.

Book Details

Place Published

City

Malden, Mass.

Date Published

1998

Publication Subjects

Motion pictures--Religious aspects.

Call No.

PN1995.5 .E96 1998

ISBN

0631203559 (hbk. : alk. paper), 0631203567 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

97010393

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-276) and indexes.