Saints Clergy And Other Religious Figures On Film And Television 1895 2003

Author : Ann C. Paietta
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476610160

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Saints, Clergy and Other Religious Figures on Film and Television, 1895-2003 by Ann C. Paietta Pdf

The portrayal of clergy, saints, missionaries, monks, and other spiritual leaders dates back to the very beginnings of motion pictures and television. Over the years, filmmakers have portrayed religious figures as heroes and villains, sinners and saints, and nearly everything in between. Through their works, filmmakers have influenced how society viewed these religious figures and, by extension, religion itself. This work details over 900 films and television series made from the 1890s through 2003 in which a religious figure plays a prominent or recurring role, or in which a character poses as a religious figure. For each motion picture, full filmographic data are provided--including title, studio, running time, year of release, director, producer, writer, and cast--along with a synopsis focusing on the role of the religious figure. Television series are covered in a separate section. For each show, the entry includes the title under which the show was commonly known; the original broadcast network; the years the show ran, running time, and cast; and a brief discussion of the religious character's role in the overall series. Extensively indexed.

Author : Richard Wolff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441182067

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The Church on TV by Richard Wolff Pdf

Author : Charles V. Dintrone
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786472451

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Television Program Master Index by Charles V. Dintrone Pdf

This work indexes books, dissertations and journal articles that mention television shows. Memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, and some popular works meant for fans are also indexed. The major focus is on service to researchers in the history of television. Listings are keyed to an annotated bibliography. Appendices include a list of websites; an index of groups or classes of people on television; and a list of programs by genre. Changes from the second edition include more than 300 new shows, airing on a wider variety of networks; 2000-plus references (more than double the second edition); and a large increase in scholarly articles. The book provides access to materials on almost 2300 shows, including groundbreaking ones like All in the Family (almost 200 entries); cult favorites like Buffy: The Vampire Slayer (200-plus entries); and a classic franchise, Star Trek (more than 400 entries for all the shows). The shows covered range from the late 1940s to 2010 (The Walking Dead). References range from 1956 to 2013.

Author : Eric Michael Mazur
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313013980

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Encyclopedia of Religion and Film by Eric Michael Mazur Pdf

Comprising 91 A–Z entries, this encyclopedia provides a broad and comprehensive introduction to the topic of religion within film. Technology has enabled films to reach much wider audiences, enabling today's viewers to access a dizzying number of films that employ diverse symbolism and communicate a vast array of viewpoints. Encyclopedia of Religion and Film will provide such an audience with the tools to begin their own exploration of the deeper meanings of these films and grasp the religious significance within. Organized alphabetically, this encyclopedia provides more than 90 entries on the larger religious traditions, the major film-producing regions of the globe, the films that have stirred controversy, the most significant religious symbols, and the more important filmmakers. The included topics provide substantially more information on the intersection of religion and film than any of the similar volumes currently available. While the emphasis is on the English-speaking world and the films produced therein, there is also substantial representation of non-English, non-Western film and filmmakers, providing significant intercultural coverage to the topic.

Author : Ralph Beliveau,Laura Bolf-Beliveau,Ruth DeFoster,Erika Engstrom
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666947670

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Catholic Horror on Television by Ralph Beliveau,Laura Bolf-Beliveau,Ruth DeFoster,Erika Engstrom Pdf

Catholic Horror on Television: Haunting Faith explores the significant intersection of horror media and the Catholic Church. Religious themes enjoy a long history in film and television, with narratives featuring the supernatural, science fiction, and horror making use of Roman Catholicism in particular. The horror genre frequently tells fantastic stories about the mysteries that we seek to understand, helping to come to terms with the destructive and the monstrous. This book analyzes the genre of Catholic horror in the current television and streaming media environment, exploring its treatment of physical mortality, the metaphysics of meaning, and morality. Catholic Horror on Television: Haunting Faith offers a fresh take on how television and streaming horror series critique, expand, and interrogate Catholicism and its place in the modern world. In doing so, this book contributes to conversations in several disciplines including media, cultural, television, and religious studies.

Author : Steve Nolan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441166876

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Film, Lacan and the Subject of Religion by Steve Nolan Pdf

In their study of religion and film, religious film analysts have tended to privilege religion. Uniquely, this study treats the two disciplines as genuine equals, by regarding both liturgy and film as representational media. Steve Nolan argues that, in each case, subjects identify with a represented 'other' which joins them into a narrative where they become participants in an ideological 'reality'. Finding many current approaches to religious film analysis lacking, Film, Lacan and the Subject of Religion explores the film theory other writers ignore, particularly that mix of psychoanalysis, Marxism and semiotics - often termed Screen theory - that attempts to understand how cinematic representation shapes spectator identity. Using translations and commentary on Lacan not originally available to Screen theorists, Nolan returns to Lacan's contribution to psychoanalytic film theory and offers a sustained application to religious practice, examining several 'priest films' and real-life case study to expose the way liturgical representation shapes religious identity. Film, Lacan and the Subject of Religion proposes an interpretive strategy by which religious film analysts can develop the kind of analysis that engages with and critiques both cultural and religious practice.

Author : Maureen Sabine
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780823252114

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Veiled Desires by Maureen Sabine Pdf

Ingrid Bergman’s engaging screen performance as Sister Mary Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary’s made the film nun a star and her character a shining standard of comparison. She represented the religious life as the happy and rewarding choice of a modern woman who had a “complete understanding” of both erotic and spiritual desire. How did this vibrant and mature nun figure come to be viewed as girlish and naïve? Why have she and her cinematic sisters in postwar popular film so often been stereotyped or selectively analyzed, so seldom been seen as women and religious? In Veiled Desires—a unique full-length, in-depth look at nuns in film—Maureen Sabine explores these questions in a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study covering more than sixty years of cinema. She looks at an impressive breadth of films in which the nun features as an ardent lead character, including The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945), Black Narcissus (1947), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), Sea Wife (1957), The Nun’s Story (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), Change of Habit (1969), In This House of Brede (1975), Agnes of God (1985), Dead Man Walking (1995), and Doubt (2008). Veiled Desires considers how the beautiful and charismatic stars who play chaste nuns, from Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn to Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep, call attention to desires that the veil concealed and the habit was thought to stifle. In a theologically and psychoanalytically informed argument, Sabine responds to the critics who have pigeonholed the film nun as the obedient daughter and religious handmaiden of a patriarchal church, and the respectful audience who revered her as an icon of spiritual perfection. Sabine provides a framework for a more complex and holistic picture of nuns onscreen by showing how the films dramatize these women’s Christian call to serve, sacrifice, and dedicate themselves to God, and their erotic desire for intimacy, agency, achievement, and fulfillment.

Author : Sue Sorensen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630871918

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The Collar by Sue Sorensen Pdf

Combining thematic analysis and stimulating close readings, The Collar is a wide-ranging study of the many ways--heroic or comic, shrewd or dastardly--Christian ministers have been represented in literature and film. Since all Christians are expected to be involved in ministry of some type, the assumptions of secular culture about ministers affect more than just clergy. Ranging across several nations (particularly the U. S., Britain, and Canada), denominations, and centuries, The Collar aims to encourage creative and faithful responses to the challenges of Christian leadership and to provoke awareness of the times when leadership expectations become too extreme. Using the framework of novels, plays, TV, and movies to make inquiries about pastoral passion, frustration, and fallibility, Sue Sorensen's well-informed, sprightly, and perceptive book will be helpful to pastors, parishioners, those interested in practical theology, and anyone who enjoys evocative literature and film.

Author : Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781573569569

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Battleground: Religion [2 volumes] by Daniel L. Smith-Christopher Pdf

Is there a controversial issue in the contemporary world that does not involve religion? Whether it's a debate over the beginning of life, or on sexuality and family life, or on the stewardship of humans over the environment, almost all of the most contentious matters that impact today's society involve people's deeply held religious beliefs. Battleground: Religion helps clarify these complex topics by examining how various religious beliefs and practices impact current political, social, and cultural debates. Each of the approximately 100 entries examines a hot-button issue—from war and peace to the culture wars—and discusses, in a balanced and objective way, the points of view on these topics from all parts of the religious spectrum. Students will come away from Battleground: Religion with a better understanding of the issues that they will be encountering for years to come. Each entry includes a bibliography or resources for further information.

Author : Ann C. Paietta,Jean Kauppila
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781476635538

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Famous Animals in History and Popular Culture by Ann C. Paietta,Jean Kauppila Pdf

During the First World War, President Woodrow Wilson bought a flock of sheep to trim the White House grounds to save money on groundskeeping. One of the sheep, called Old Ike, even became a public phenomenon for his ornery disposition and his penchant for chewing tobacco. Included here are hundreds of well-researched accounts of the fascinating animals that have played vital roles throughout history. Featured animals include Able, who flew on a space mission; Bayou, Salvador Dali's ocelot companion; and G.I. Joe, a pigeon who saved more than 100 people during World War II. These and many other stories detail the unexpected contributions of our animal companions in settings of war, space travel, stage and screen. The book is organized alphabetically by the given name of each animal, and entries feature compelling factual descriptions in a storytelling format.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015066256473

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International Index to Film Periodicals by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ann C. Paietta
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476620343

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Teachers in the Movies by Ann C. Paietta Pdf

The teaching profession has a long history in motion pictures. As early as the late 19th century, films have portrayed educators of young children—including teachers, tutors, day care workers, nannies, governesses, and other related occupations—in a variety of roles within the cinematic classroom. This work provides a broad index of more than 800 films (both U.S. and foreign) which feature educators as primary characters. Organized alphabetically by title, each entry contains a short plot summary and many also include cast and crew details. A detailed subject index is also included.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121676758

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Choice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bohdan S. Wynar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Reference books
ISBN : UOM:39015064851903

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American Reference Books Annual by Bohdan S. Wynar Pdf

1970- issued in 2 vols.: v. 1, General reference, social sciences, history, economics, business; v. 2, Fine arts, humanities, science and engineering.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043244

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf