Screening scripture
Subtitle: intertextual connections between scripture and film
By: edited by George Aichele and Richard Walsh.
Contributors: Aichele, George.; Walsh, Richard G.
Publisher: Trinity Press International; Bloomsbury 3PL
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Harrisburg, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Religious aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-321) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1. On finding a non-American revelation : end of days and the Book of Revelation / Richard Walsh; title: 2. Of Gods and demons : blood sacrifice and eternal life in Dracula and the Apocalypse of John / Tina Pippin; title: 3. Atomic anxiety in Cold War Britain : science, sin and uncertainity in nuclear monster films / Neal R. McCrillis; title: 4. Alienation, sex, and an unsatisfactory ending : themes and features of stories old and new / Ralph J. Brabban; title: 5. Coming-of-age in The Prince of Egypt / Jennifer Rohrer-Walsh; title: 6. Sitcom mythology / George Aichele; title: 7. Non-sense : total recall, Paul and the possibility of psychosis / Roland Boer; title: 8. Gazing at impotence in Henry King's David and Bathsheba / Julie Kelso; title: 9. Why girls cry : gender, melancholia, and sexual violence in Ezekiel 16 and Boys don't cry / Erin Runions; title: 10. Meeting Patch again for the first time : purity and compassion in Marcus Borg, the Gospel of Mark, and Patch Adams / Jeffrey L. Staley; title: 11. Learning from the Life of Brian : saviors for seminars / Carl Dyke; title: 12. The characterization of Martin Riggs in Lethal weapon 1 : an archetypal hero / Fred Burnett; title: 13. Paradoxical protagonists : Sling blade's Karl and Jesus Christ / Mark Roncace.