Screening the afterlife
Subtitle: theology, eschatology, and film
By: by Christopher Deacy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780415572583; 9780415572590; 9780203356012
Subjects: Death in motion pictures; Motion pictures; Resurrection in motion pictures; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mapping the afterlife in theology, eschatology and film; title: Resurrection or Immortality?: The body and the soul in theology and film; title: Near-Death Experiences and Mind-Dependent Worlds in theology and film; title: Towards a Cinematic Realized Eschatology: The Afterlife as Now; title: Heaven and the New Jerusalem as a Place on Earth: Case studies of Working Girl and The Shawshank Redemption; title: Punishment or Rehabilitation?: Competing perspectives on Hell in theology and film; title: Conclusion: Using film to revisit eschatology.