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The first edition of Film as Religion was one of the first texts to develop a framework for the analysis of the religious function of films for audiences. Like more formal religious institutions, films can provide us with ways to view the world and the values to confront it. Lyden argues that the cultural influence of films is analogous to that of religions, so that films can be understood as representing a "religious" worldview in their own right. Thoroughly updating his examples, Lyden examines a range of film genres and individual films, from The Godfather to The Hunger Games to Frozen, to show how film can function religiously.

Motion pictures --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Religious aspects. --- Action Film. --- Aliens. --- Attitudes. --- Audience Reception. --- Autonomy. --- Backlash. --- Beliefs. --- Catharsis. --- Circuit of culture. --- Civilization. --- Clifford Geertz. --- Communitas. --- Cultural Studies. --- Death. --- Discernment. --- Disenfranchised. --- Disney. --- Diversity. --- Dualism. --- Dystopia. --- Evaluation. --- Fascism. --- Fear. --- Feminism. --- Functionalist. --- Gangster. --- Genre. --- Heroism. --- Heterosexual. --- Ideal. --- Implied Viewer. --- Influence. --- Interreligious Dialogue. --- Irrational. --- Liminal Power. --- Liminal. --- Liminality. --- Melodrama. --- Metonymy. --- Models for Reality. --- Models of Reality. --- Monstrous. --- Moral Values. --- Norms. --- Popular Culture. --- Primitive. --- Projection. --- Reductionism. --- Relationships. --- Representation. --- Robots. --- Romantic. --- Sacrifice. --- Sexist. --- Sexuality. --- Status Quo. --- Subordination. --- Suffering. --- Superhero. --- Trends. --- Utopia. --- Values. --- Vietnam War. --- Violence. --- War on Terror. --- Western. --- Religious aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects

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This book includes the 14 articles accepted and published in the Special Issue “Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM): Applications in Economics and Finance” of the MDPI journal Mathematics, which encompasses a wide range of topics connected with the theory and applications of PLS-SEM methodology. These topics involve, among others, prediction of stock market investment intention, institutional quality and international competitiveness, governance paradigms and public innovation, information and communication technologies in the supply chain, influence of the ability to absorb information from the environment and proactivity on the company's results, quality management, effects of the corporate social responsibility on financial performance, resource management for the improvement of the healthcare system, and the application of maximum entropy bootstrapping to time series. It is expected that the book will prove worthwhile and helpful for those working in the area of PLS-SEM, regardless of the field of application (economics, finance, marketing, education or other). Applications of higher order constructs, mediating variables, multigroup analysis and the latest advances in applied methodology can all be found in this book.

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