Catching Light
Subtitle: Looking For God In The Movies
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Published: January 2005
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich.
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780802827951
Subjects: Films, cinema; Social Science; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Sociology; Christian Life - Pop Culture Issues; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Motion pictures; Popular Culture - General; Religious aspects; Christianity - Christian Life - Pop Culture Issues
First sentence: This first section examines tales of darkness, films that depict a thirsting world that craves the breaking of Light.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one : Darkness visible.; title: Utterly lost : Michael Corleone's descent in The Godfather saga; title: "The design of darkness to appall" : metaphysical evil in Chinatown; title: "Just come home" : violence and redemption in The deer hunter; title: Part two : Light shines in the darkness.; title: "The wings of a dove" : the search for home in Tender mercies; title: The place beyond words : image and meaning in Places in the heart; title: The laughter beyond tears : love's redemptive call in The mission; title: "In the regions of the heart" : the meeting of art and belief in Babette's feast; title: Part three : Fables of light.; title: Tracking the force : meaning and morality in the Star wars saga; title: The super-man : displaying the incarnation in Superman; title: "Earth's the place for love" : the lost boy's search for home in three Steven Spielberg movies; title: Part four : Found.; title: Of angels and headaches : the unexpected god of Grand Canyon; title: The war of the roses : meaning and epiphany in American beauty; title: The sound of the color of love : the construction of meaning in Kieslowski's Three colors: blue