Integration and Rebirth through Confrontation: Fight Club and American Beauty as Contemporary Religious Parables

This article discusses the religious significance of two recent American films which raise pertinent questions about the nature and quality of human existence, its anxieties and aspirations, at the turn of the millennium. Both David Fincher's Fight Club and Sam Mendes's American Beauty wre...

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Main Author: Deacy, Christopher 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Carfax Publ. [2002]
In: Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2002, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 61-73
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