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Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular American Film

Paperback • 1995 • English

Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular American Film

By Joel W. Martin, Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr.

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What are the religious impulses in the 1976 film Rocky, and how can they work to shape one's social identity? Do the films Alien and Aliens signify the reemergence of the earth goddess as a vital cultural power? What female archetypes, borne out of male desire, inform the experience of women in Nine and a Half Weeks?These are among the several compelling questions the authors of this volume consider as they explore the way popular American film relates to religion. Oddly, religion and film?two p...Show more

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9780813388304

Published year

1995

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English

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Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular American Film

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Paperback

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