Flesher, Paul Virgil McCracken.

Film & religion : an introduction / Film and religion Paul V.M. Flesher, Robert Torry - Nashville, TN : Abingdon Press, 2007. - xiii, 306 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes filmography: p. 305-306. Includes bibliographical references.

Christmas films: the search for meaning -- Religion, science fiction, and the bomb -- Making Rome Christian -- The Ten Commandments and America's fight against tyranny -- The messiah of peace -- The accidental superstar -- Tormenting Christ -- Violence and redemption -- The devil: screening humanity's enemy -- God as alien: humanity's helper -- Religion and scandal, crime and innocence -- The religion of baseball -- American dharma -- Jewish films: finding the path between Torah and modernity -- Islam and fanaticism: only in the eye of the beholder?

9780687334896 (binding: pbk., adhesive-notched : alk. paper) 0687334896 (binding: pbk., adhesive-notched : alk. paper)


Motion pictures--Religious aspects.
Religious films--History and criticism.

PN 1995.5 / F611f 2007

791.43