Go down to L.A. land: Hollywood and God's new Israel

This essay will examine the thesis that film has become the medium of changes in the American civil religion by comparing how the traditional comparison of America to biblical Israel has played itself out in two Hollywood films: Cecil B. DeMille’sThe Ten Commandments,and Dreamworks’The Prince of Egy...

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Main Author: Whitehouse, Glenn (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Creighton University 2001
In: The journal of religion & society
Year: 2001, Volume: 3
Further subjects:B United States; Civilization
B Civil Religion
B Films; Religious aspects
B Bible in film
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