God in the Movies

ISBN-13: 9781138524453 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 196 str.

Andrew M. Greeley

Opis

The religious imagination is alive and well in the movies

Spis treści

Introduction; 1: God in the Movies; 2: Movies as Story and Metaphor; 3: Always a Lover: Audrey Hepburn as Lady Wisdom; 4: Life, Love, and All That Jazz: Jessica Lange and the Passion of God; 5: Babette’s Feast of Love: Symbols Subtle but Patent; 6: Is This Heaven? No, It’s Iowa; 7: Pale Rider; 8: Ghost; 9: FlatUners: Forgiveness Stronger than Death; 10: Jacob’s Ladder: God in the Nightmare; 11: Angel Angst and the Direction of Desire; 12: A Note on Purgatory in the Movies; 13: How to Put God in a Movie; 14: Magical Realism and the Problem of Evil; 15: European Novel, American Movie, Japanimation: The Evolution of Storytelling; 16: Conclusion

O autorze

Andrew M. Greeley