Peculiar portrayals
Subtitle: Mormons on the page, stage, and screen
By: edited by Mark T. Decker and Michael Austin.
Contributors: Decker, Mark T.; Austin, Michael, 1966-
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Logan, Utah
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780874217735; 9780874217742
Subjects: Mormons in mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Center and periphery: Mormons and American culture in Tony Kushner's Angels in America / Cristine Hutchison-Jones; title: Four consenting adults in the privacy of their own suburb: Big love and the cultural significance of Mormon polygamy / Michael Austin; title: Teaching under the banner of heaven: testing the limits of tolerance in America / Kevin Kolkmeyer; title: Avenging angels: the Nephi archetype and blood atonement in Neil Labute, Brian Evenson, and Levi Peterson, and the making of the Mormon American writer / J. Aaron Sanders; title: Elders on the big screen: film and the globalized circulation of Mormon missionary images / John-Charles Duffy; title: "I constructed in my mind a vast, panoramic picture": the miracle life of Edgar Mint and postmodern, postdenominational Mormonism / Mark T. Decker; title: Jane Austen in Mollywood: mainstreaming Mormonism in Andrew Black's Pride & prejudice / Juliette Wells; title: Reality corrupts, reality television corrupts absolutely / Karen D. Austin.