Transcendental Television? A Discussion of Joan of Arcadia
Does television only offer audiences the profane? Or is there room for the sacred to be shown on your TV set? Using Joan of Arcadia as a model in this article, I discuss the potential for television to embody Schrader's (1972) model of the transcendental form in film and bring us closer to divi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2005]
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Journal of media and religion
Year: 2005, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-12 |
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| Summary: | Does television only offer audiences the profane? Or is there room for the sacred to be shown on your TV set? Using Joan of Arcadia as a model in this article, I discuss the potential for television to embody Schrader's (1972) model of the transcendental form in film and bring us closer to divinity. I also discuss what factors converged to make a space for this style on primetime network television. |
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| ISSN: | 1534-8415 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of media and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1207/s15328415jmr0401_1 |