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Celluloid Sermons : The Emergence of the Christian Film Industry, 1930-1986
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ISBN: 9780814765357 9780814753248 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York, N.Y. New York University Press

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Cinema as pulpit : Sherwood Pictures and the church film movement
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ISBN: 9780786469901 Year: 2012 Publisher: Jefferson, NC London McFarland

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Divine film comedies : biblical narratives, film sub-genres, and the comic spirit
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ISBN: 9781138956131 9781138956124 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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This engaging study surveys the religious element in the broadest spectrum of film comedy. A representative chapter finds religious redemption and the blessed hero in early Chaplin films and in Home Alone (1990). Heroes of adventure comedies and the picaresque personify the joy of life?s challenges and tribulations. In romantic and screwball comedies traditional plots reassert the power of love and community and the divinity in resisting unbridled temptation. In chapter 6, the authors write that musicals are the ?sub-genre of joy and bliss? implicit in the utopian vision of romantic unions, countering the individual?s dread isolation?a theme developed more somberly in the chapter on family comedies. The authors also propose two new subgenres, "film blanc comedy, " driven by angels, and "clergy comedy, " propelled by angels' human agents. There are brisk discussions of black comedy as reductio ad absurdum, the multilevel or ensemble comedy, mockumentary and the broader genres of satire, and parody and the Dionysian/transgressive. The authors move easily between the religious implications of popular films and the comic element in the Bible stories. The result is manna for new thought.


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The Bible in Motion
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ISBN: 9781614515616 1614515611 1614513260 1501500163 9781614513261 9781614513292 1614513295 9781501500169 Year: 2016 Volume: 2/1-2 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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This two-part volume contains a comprehensive collection of original studies by well-known scholars focusing on the Bible’s wide-ranging reception in world cinema. It is organized into sections examining the rich cinematic afterlives of selected characters from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament; considering issues of biblical reception across a wide array of film genres, ranging from noir to anime; featuring directors, from Lee Chang-dong to the Coen brothers, whose body of work reveals an enduring fascination with biblical texts and motifs; and offering topical essays on cinema’s treatment of selected biblical themes (e.g., lament, apocalyptic), particular interpretive lenses (e.g., feminist interpretation, queer theory), and windows into biblical reception in a variety of world cinemas (e.g., Indian, Israeli, and Third Cinema). This handbook is intended for scholars of the Bible, religion, and film as well as for a wider general audience.

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