Screening the sacred: religion, myth, and ideology in popular American film
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Boulder
Westview Press
1995
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| In: | Year: 1995 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Religion
/ Entertainment film
B USA / Myth / Entertainment film B USA / Ideology / Entertainment film B USA / Film / Religion (Motif) / Myth (Motif) / Ideology B USA / Film / Ideology criticism / Theology |
| Further subjects: | B
Cinema and Television
B Collection of essays B Motion Pictures Religious aspects |
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Volltext (Verlag; ACLS) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 193 p), 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0-8133-8830-9 0-8133-8829-5 |
| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 2027/heb.07707 |
