Name/Title
Screening the sacred :religion, myth, and ideology in popular American film /edited by Joel W. Martin, Conrad E. Ostwalt, Jr.Description
introduction: seeing the sacred on the screen / Joel W. Martin -- Shall these bones live? The Problem of bodies in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Joel Coen's Blood simple / Larry E. Grimes -- Angels in the primum mobile: dimensions of the sacred in William Kennedy's Ironweed, novel and film / Ted L Estess -- The Christian allegorical structure of Platoon / Avent Childress Beck -- Hollywood and Armageddon: apocalyptic themes in recent cinematic presentation / Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr. -- Star wars: a myth for our time / Andrew Gordon -- With eyes uplifted: space aliens as sky gods / Caron Schwartz Ellis -- Evolution of "The New frontier" in Alien and Aliens: patriarchal co-optation of the feminine archetype / Janice Hocker Rushing -- Redeeming America: Rocky as ritual racial drama / Joel W. Martin -- From revelation to dream: allegory in David Lynch's Blue velvet / Elizabeth McLemore -- Women spoken for: images of displaced desire / Irena Makarushka -- Conclusion: religion, film, and cultural analysis / Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr.
x, 193 p. ;24 cm.Book Details
Date Published
circa 1995Publication Subjects
Motion pictures--Religious aspects.Call No.
PN1995.5 .S36 1995ISBN
0813388295 (alk. paper), 0813388309 (pbk. : alk. paper)LCCN
94040252Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-182) and index.