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Adams, Richmond B.

• Misson (not) Accomplished: Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Light and Darkness (11, 1)

Albright, Rebecca

• Film Review: Winter's Bone (15, 2)

Alexander, Scott C.

• Using 'Homemade' Documentary Video in Religious Studies(1, 2)

Allon, Yoram

• Film Review: Songs from the Second Floor (5, 1)

Amarasingam, Amarnath

• Film Review: Fitna (13, 1)
• Foucault, Discipline and the Self: Exploring Mary's Relationship with God in The Nativity Story (12, 1)

Ambrosiano, Jason

• The Ties That Bind and Bless the Soul: Grace and Noir in Schrader's Light Sleeper (2, 2)

Anderson, Christopher

• To “Elevate Unfortunate Humanity”On-screen: Linking World War I and Protestant Missions through Silent Film (12, 2)

Arjet, Robert

• Film Review: Mission: Impossible II (4, 2)

Ascough, Richard S.

• Symbolic Power and Religious Impotence in Paul Verhoeven's Spetters (7, 2)

Aston, James and Wallis, John

• “The (Un)Christian Road Warrior: The Crisis of Religious Representation in The Book of Eli (2010) (15, 1)

Atchley, J. Heath

• When The Master Is Not Master: The Critique of Enlightenment in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (7, 2)
• Film Review: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (5, 1)

Avila, Wanda

• Enlightenment Through Film: Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East? (14, 1)
• Diary of a Country Priest: The Transcendent on Film (10,2)

Avalos, Hector

• Film and the Apologetics of Biblical Violence (13, 1)

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Baker, Christopher

• The Persistence of the Sacred in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (11, 2)

Baker, Geoff

• Portraying the Quest for Buddhist Wisdom?: A Comparative Study of The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (10, 1)

Ballan, Joseph

• Film Review: As Lillith (14, 1)
• Film Review: The Oath (14, 1)

Bazin, André

• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over the Marshes (6, 2)
  (Translated and edited by Bert Cardullo)

Beavis, Mary Ann

• Film Review: In Good Conscience: Sister Jeannine Gramick's Journey of Faith (12, 1)
• Still Crazy: An Unsung Homage to the New Testament (8, 2)
• "Angels Carrying Savage Weapons:" Uses of the Bible in Contemporary Horror Films (7, 2)
• The Sweet Hereafter: Law, Wisdom and Family Revisited (5, 1)
• Fargo: A Biblical Morality Play (4, 2)

Bellinger, Charles K.

• The Joker Is Satan, and So Are We: Girard and The Dark Knight (13, 1)

Bergström, Catharine Walker

• Searches for the Significant: Robert Zemeckis' Cast Away as a Late Twentieth Century Response to Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (9, 1)

• From Peepshow to Prayer: Toward a Spirituality of the Movies (6, 2)

Biles, Jeremy

• Film Review: Cave of Forgotten Dreams (15, 1)
• Film Review: Hegewijch (15, 1)
• Film Review: The Sunset Limited (15, 1)

Blizek, William L. "Bill"

• Film Review: Echoes of a Storyteller (15, 1)
• Film Review: The Third Testament (15, 1)
• Report from Sundance 2011: Religion in Independent Film (15,1)
• Slamdance Film Festival Report 2011 (15,1)
• Jesus in Armani (14,2)
• Film Review: Vision (14, 2)
  
• Film Review: "Sunday's Coming" Movie Trailer (14, 1)
• Report from Sundance TwentyTen: Religion in Independent Film 2010 (14, 1)
• Slamdance Film Festival Report 2010 (14, 1)
• Film Review: The Invention of Lying (13, 2)
• Slamdance Film Festival 2009 (13, 1)
• Report from Sundance 2009: Religion in Independent Film (13, 1)
• Film Review: Doubt (13, 1)
• Film Review: Waltz with Bashir (13, 1)
• Film Review: Religulous (12, 2)
• Report from Sundance 2008: Religion in Independent Film (12, 1)
• Film Review: The Kite Runner (11, 2)
• Report from Slamdance 2007: Religion in Independent Film (11, 1)
• Report from Sundance 2007: Religion in Independent Film (11, 1)
• Report from Sundance 2006: Religion in Independent Film (10, 1)
• Report from Sundance 2005: Religion in Independent Film (9, 1)
• Report from Sundance 2004: Religion in Independent Film (8, 1)
• Report from Sundance 1999:Religion in Independent Films (3, 1)

• The Apostle: An Interview with Robert Duvall (2, 1)

Blizek, Nicole

• Film Review: Resurrection (4, 1)

Blomfield, Bridget

• Film Review: The Kingdom (11, 2)

Bolton, Chad W. D.

• Film Review: Henry Poole Is Here (12, 2)

Bowie, Charles E.

• Film Review: Legion (14, 1)

Bowman, Donna

• Faith and the Absent Savior in Central Station (5, 1)
• Film Review: Keeping the Faith (4, 2)

• Shinto Perspectives in Miyazaki's Anime Film " Spirited Away (8, 2)

Bramer, Daniel and Wittung, Jeffery

• From Superman to Brahman: The Religious Shift of The Matrix Mythology (10,2)

Brintnall, Kent L.

• Film Review: Big Fish (8, 1)
• Film Review: Monster (8, 1)

Burke, Ron

• Film Review: Stigmata (3, 2)

• The Apostle: An Interview with Robert Duvall (2, 1)

• Mystic River: A Parable of Christianity's Dark Side (8, 1)

Burridge, Richard

• Video Essay on Faith Odyssey: A Journey Through Life (10, 2)

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Cardullo, Bert

• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over the Marshes(translation and edit of Bazin, André Submission (6, 2)
• Rosetta Stone: A Consideration of the Dardenne Brothers' Rosetta (6, 1)

Caperelli, Jr., Vince

• Film Review: Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (11, 2)
• Film Review: Maria Full of Grace (10, 1)

Carlson, Elaine

• Film Review: Avatar: Misogyny Under the Dome? (14, 1)

Carrière, Kathryn

• Film Review: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (13, 1)
• Film Review: Terminator Salvation (13, 1)

Castle, Robert

• The Dharma Blues (6, 1)

Choi, Heawon

• Oblivion beyond Forgetting: A Buddhist Reflection on Suffering in Ashes of Time (14,2)

Ciliberto, Jon

• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (15, 1)

• Film Review: My Son the Fanatic (4,2)
• Book Review: Reading the Gospels in the Dark: Portrayals of Jesus in Film by Richard Walsh

Clements, Heather

• Preacher, Shepherd, Judge: The Role of the Outlaw Prophet in American Film (12,2)

Clyburn, Scott

• Film Review: There Will Be Blood (12, 2)

Cojocaru, Daniel

• Man’s Desire Exceeds His Grasp –The Prestige as Utopia (14, 1)

• Film Review: Dogville (9,1)
• Film Review: The Terminal (9, 1)

Conklin, Hal and Wayman, Denny

• Film Review: To End All Wars (9, 2)
• Film Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (6, 1)
• Film Review: K-Pax (6, 1)
• Film Review: Ice Age (6, 1)

Conroy, Melissa

• Seeing with Buddha's Eyes: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...and Spring (11, 2)
• The Invisible Body of God: Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man (8, 1)

Cooke, Andrew

• Film Review: Harry Potter, The Goblet of Fire...and the Communion of Saints? (10, 1)

Cooper, Rich

• The Divine Exhaustion of Myth and Parable in Cronenberg’s A History of Violence (14,2)
  

Cormier, Michelle

• Black Song, White Song: Salvation Through The Radio in The Apostle and Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? (6, 2)

Cowan, Douglas E.

• Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic: Science, Religion, and The War of the Worlds - Part II (11, 2)
• Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic: Science, Religion and the War of the Worlds (11, 1)

Craft-Fairchild, Catharine

• Castaway and Cast Away: Colonial, imperial, and Religious discourses in Daniel Defoe and Robert Zemeckis (9, 1)

Cruikshank, Jorge

• Film Review: Tetro (14, 2)

Cunningham, Philip

• The Arrest and Sentencing of Jesus: A Historical Reconstruction (8, 1 - Special Issue)

Curley, Melissa Anne-Marie

• Dead Men Don’t Lie: Sacred Texts in Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man and Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (12, 2)

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Dart, John

• Judas the Film: Storytellers Then and Now (8, 1 - Special Issue)

Deacy, Christopher

• Fantasy Verses Redemption: Religious Possibility in Little Voice (4, 2)

De Concini, Barbara

• Seduction by Visual Image (2, 3)

DeGiglio-Bellemare, Mario

• Film Review: Land of the Dead (9, 2)
• Film Review: The Passion of the Christ (8, 1)
• Film Review: Signs (6, 2)
• Magnolia and the Signs of the Times: ATheological Reflection (4, 2)
• Book Review: They Came from Within: A History of Canadian Horror Cinema By Caelum Vatnsdal

dela Fuente, Anthony and Howell, Brian

• They Call Me Joy: Philippine Protestantism as Local Culture (10,2)

Delmont, James

• Film Review: God's Army (4, 2)

• A Bloodthirsty Salvation: Behind the Popular Polarized Reaction to Gibson's The Passion (9, 1)

• Biblical Allusions, Biblical Illusions: Hollywood Blockbuster and Scripture (8, 1 - Special Issue)
• Film Review: Tomb Raider (5, 2)

• Jon Woo's The Killer and Girard (5, 1)

Desmarais, Michele Marie

• Report from Sundance 2011: Religion in Independent Film (15,1)
• Slamdance Film Festival Report 2011 (15,1)
• Report from Sundance TwentyTen: Religion in Independent Film 2010 (14, 1)
• Slamdance Film Festival 2009 (13, 1)
• Report from Sundance 2009: Religion in Independent Film (13, 1)
• Report from Sundance 2007: Religion in Film (11, 1)
• Report from Sundance 2006: Religion in Film (10, 1)
• Report from Sundance 2005: Religion in Film (9, 1)

Detweiler, Craig

• Film Review: James Cameron's Cathedral: Avatar Revives the Religious Spectacle (14, 1)
• Film Review: Kicks and Tricks in Chrisopher Nolan's Inception (14, 1)

Dodd, Kevin

• Donnie Darko and the Messianic Motif (13, 2)
• Film Review: Sita Sings the Blues (13, 2)

Dodson, Mary

• Capturing C. S. Lewis's "Mere” Christianity: Another Look at Shadowlands (6, 1)

Doebler, Peter

• Screening the Silly: The Christian Iconography of Roberto Rossellini’s Francesco, giullare di Dio (15, 1)

Donaldson, Mara

• Teaching Field of Dreams as Cosmogonic Myth (2, 3)

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Ehrlich, Linda C.

• Film Review: The Silence [Sokhut] (4, 2)
• Stillness in Motion: TheSleeping Man of Oguri Kohei (3, 1)

Ellis, Robert

• Bringing out the Meaning: Deacy, Nolan, Scorsese, and what films 'mean' (13, 2)

Elwell, J. Sage

• Film Review: Sylvia (7, 2)

Etherden, Matthew

• The Day the Earth Stood Still: 1950s Sci-Fi, Religion and The Alien (9, 2)

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Fairbairn, Marty

• Memory and Responsibility: An Interview with Margarethe von Trotta on Rosenstrasse (12, 1)

Fernandez, Ingrid

• In the Kingdom of Men: Love, Faith and Spirituality in von Trier's Breaking the Waves (15, 1)

Fielding, Julien R.

• Film Review: The Machinist (10, 1)
• Reassessing The Matrix/Reloaded (7, 2)
• Film Review: Bruce Almighty (7, 2)
• Native American Religion and Film: Interviews with Chris Eyre and Sherman Alexie (7, 1)
• Film Review: Daredevil (7, 1)
• Film Review: The Guru (7, 1)

Fillingim, David

• Film Review: Country Strong (15, 1)
• When Jesus was a Girl: Polymythic Female Christ Figures in Whale Riderand Steel Magnolias
  (14, 1)
• Film Review: Small Engine Repair (13, 1)

Fitch, John III

• Archetypes on Screen: Odysseus, St. Paul, Christ and the American Cinematic Hero and Anti-Hero (9, 1)

Flannery-Dailey, Frances

• Biblical Scholarship and the Passion Surrounding The Passion of the Christ (8, 1 - Special Issue)
• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films (7, 2)
• Bruce Willis as the Messiah: Human Effort, Salvation and Apocalypticism in Twelve Monkeys (4, 1)

Flannery-Dailey, Frances and Wagner, Rachel

• Wake up! Gnosticism and Buddhism in The Matrix (5, 2)

Flato, Jason

• Film Review: Munich (10, 1)
• Film Review: Vanilla Sky (6, 1)

Flesher, Paul V. M.

• Being True to the Text: From Genesis to Harry Potter (12, 2)

Flesher, Paul V. M. and Torry, Robert

• Filming Jesus: Between Authority and Heresy (8, 1 - Special Issue)
• Teaching Religion and Film (2, 3)

Fisher, Danny

• Film Review: Tree of Life (15, 2)
• Film Review: True Grit (15, 1)
• Film Review: Recalling a Buddha: Memories of HH Karmapa XVI (14, 2)
• Film Review: Inception (14, 1)
• Film Review: Quantum of Solace (13, 1)
• Film Review: The Dark Knight (12, 2)
• Film Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (12, 2)
• Film Review: The Bourne Ultimataum (11, 2)
• Film Review: DVD Review: The Ultimate Matrix Collection (10, 1)

Ford, James L.

• Buddhism, Christianity, and The Matrix: The Dialectic of Myth-Making in Contemporary Cinema (4, 2)

Forest, Ben

• Film Review: A.I.: Artifical Intelligence (6, 1)

Foskett, Shannon

• Film Review: Vajra Sky Over Tibet (11, 2)

Frazier, Jessica

• Film Review: Jodhaa Akbar (12, 1)
• Film Review: Igby Goes Down (6, 2)
• Film Review: Sweet Sixteen (6, 2)

Fredriksen, Paula

• History, Hollywood, and the Bible: Some Thoughts on Gibson's Passion (8, 1 - Special Issue)

Friesen, Michael

• Film Review: Jesus Camp (11, 2)

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Garbowski, Christopher

• Film Review: Katyn (11, 2)
• Film Review: The Pianist (6, 2)
• The Catholic Imagination in Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz (5, 2)

Garcia, Blisa Ruiz Velasco

• Film Review: Hofshat Kaits (My Father My Lord) (12, 2)

Gardaz, Michael

• The Path of Jihard in the Yacoubian Building (13, 1)

Giere, S. D.

• “This is my world!” Son of Man (Jezile) and Cross-Cultural Convergences of Bible and World (15, 1)

Gillespie, Michael L.

• Picturing the Way in Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1, 1)

Goodacre, Mark

• Do You Think You're What They Say You Are? Reflections on Jesus Christ Superstar (3,2)

Graham, Paul

• Revisiting Violence in The Godfather: The Ambiquous Space of the Victimage Model (9, 2)

Gregory, Annie

• Majid Majidi and New Iranian Cinema (12, 1)

Greeley, Andrew M.

• Images of God in the Movies (1,1)

Greiner, Carl

• The Apostle: A Psychiatric Appraisal (3, 2)
• The Rapture: A Challenging Vision of Horror (1, 1)

Grinberg, Marat

• The Birth of a Hebrew Tragedy: Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream as a Morality Play (14, 1)

Grondelski, John M.

• From The Ten Commandments" to the Decalogue (7, 1)

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Hamm, S.J., Dennis

• Are the Gospel Passion Accounts Anti-Jewish? ( 8, 1 - Special Issue)

Hancock, Brannon M.

• A Community of Characters - the Narrative Self in the Films of Wes Anderson (9, 2)
• Film Review: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (9, 1)

Hawksley, Theodora

• “But it did happen”: Sound as Deep Narrative in P.T. Anderson’s Magnolia (1999) (13, 2)

Herbel, Rev. Oliver

• An Orthodox Perspective on Gibson's The Passion of Christ (8, 2)

Hoffman, Valerie J.

• Ritual, Music, Sociability and Censure: Making a Film on Sufi 'DHIKR' in Egypt (2, 1)

Howell, Brian and dela Fuente, Anthony

• They Call Me Joy: Philippine Protestantism as Local Culture (10,2)

Howell, David B.

• Screening the Temptation: Interpretation and Indeterminacy in Cinematic Transformations of a Gospel Story (11, 2)

Howell, Rebecca

• Film Review: Billu(13, 2)
• Film Review: Delhi 6 (13,2)

Hultgren, Britt

• Film Review: Seven Pounds (13, 1)
• Film Review: The Wrestler (13, 1)

Humbert, David

• Film Review: The Mill and the Cross (15, 2)
• Film Review: Dead Snow (13, 1)

Hussain, Amir

• Film Review: Atanarjuat (6, 2)
• Apocalyptic Visons (4, 1)

Hutchinson, Richard

• God and the Bodhisattva: A Buddhist Reading of Stranger Than Fiction (13,1)

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James, William Closson

• Borat and Anti-Semitism (12,1)

Jenkins, Bill

• Jesus Christ, Superstar? Why the Gospels Don’t Make Good Movies (12, 2)
• Film Review: Flight of the Phoenix (10, 1)
• Film Review: Natpoleon Dynamite (9, 2)

Jeserich, Florian

• Film Review: Spirituality as Anti-Structure in James Cameron's Avatar (14, 1)

Johnston, Robert

• Video Essay on Reel Spirtuality, rev & exp. ed: Theology and Film in Dialogue (Engaging Culture) (10, 2)

Juett, JoAnne C.

• Jesus "Camp:" Camp, Christianity, and Gender Ambiguity in Transamerica (15, 1)

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Kanda, L. Leann and Wagner, Rachel

• Film Review: Avatar: “I See You”: Na’vigating the Bridge between Scientific Observation and Religious Apprehension in Avatar (14, 1)

Karounos, Michael

• Film Review: Equilibrium (7, 2)
• Film Review: Hell House (7, 1)
• Film Review: Minority Report (6, 2)

Keefer, Kyle

• Knowledge and Mortality in Black Runner and Genesis 2-3 (9, 2)

Keefer, Kyle and Linafelt, Tod

• The End of Desire: Theologies of Eros in the Song of Songs and Breaking the Waves (2, 1)

King, Mike

• Film Review: Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (9, 2)
• Film Review: Northfork (8, 1)

Kozlovic, Anton Karl

• The Construction of a Christ-figure within the 1956 and 1923 Versions of Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (10, 1)
• The Unholy Biblical Subtexts and Other Religious Elements Built into Superman: The Movie (1978) and Superman II (1981) (7, 1)
• The Holy, Non-Christic Biblical Subtexts in Superman: The Movie (1978) and Superman II (1981) (6, 2)
• Superman as Christ-Figure: The American Pop Culture Movie Messiah (6, 1)
• From Holy Aliens to Cyborg Saviours: Biblical Subtexts in Four Science Fiction Films (5, 2)

Krainak, Michael J.

• The Jackleg Testament, Part One: Jack and Eve: Artist Jay Bolotin with his postmodern take on Genesis, the first woodcut motion picture ever made (14, 1)
• Report from Sundance 2007: Religion in Film (11, 1)

Kraemer, Christine Hoff

• Between the Worlds: Liminality and Self-Sacrifice in Princess Mononoke (8, 1)

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Lambert, Mark

• Film Review: Sherlock Holmes (14, 1)
• Film Review: Taken (13, 1)
• Film Review: Australia (13, 1)

Landry, David

• God in the Details: The Cleansing of the Temple in Four Jesus Films (13, 2)

Larson-Harris, Marwood

• Film Review: Amongst White Clouds (12, 2)

Lavia, Kate

• Film Review: Bowfinger (4, 1)

Lawler, Michael G.

• Sectarian Catholicism and Mel Gibson (8, 1 - Special Issue)

Laycock, Joseph

• Film Review: Tron: Legacy (15, 1)
• Film Review: The Last Exorcism (14, 2)
• Film Review: Jennifer's Body (13, 2)
• Film review: WALL-E (13, 1)

Levi, Jennifer

• Performing Selves/Performing as Self: Autobiographical Films of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (3, 2)

Levitt, Laura

• Redressing Jewish Difference in Tania Modleski's Cinema and the Dark Continent (1, 2)

Limbert, Anthony

• Film Review: Year One (13,1)

Linafelt, Tod and Keefer, Kyle

• The End of Desire: Theologies of Eros in the Song of Songs and Breaking the Waves (2, 1)

Linafelt, Tod and Plate, S. Brent

• Seeing Beyond the End of the World in Strange Days and Until the End of the World (7, 1)

Linnitt, Carol

• Film Review: Avatar: The Sacred in James Cameron’s Avatar (14, 1)
• Film Review: A Serious Man (13, 2)

Lobel, Andrea D.

• Film Review: About Schmidt (7, 1)

Low, Katherine

• Satan’s Seductress and the Apocalyptic Hero: The Body in American Apocalyptic Films at the Turn of the Century (13, 2)

Lyden, John

• Film Review: Avatar (14, 1)
• Video Essay on Film as Religion (10, 1)
• The Apocalyptic Cosmology of Star Wars (4, 1)
• To Commend or To Critique? The Question of Religion and Film Studies (1, 2)
• Lyden/Marsh Discussion (Religion, Film and Postmodernity)

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Mahaffy, Jake

• The Need for Loss: Realizing Sacrifice in the Films of Andrey Tarkovsky (6,2)
  

Mahan, Jeffrey H.

• Celluloid Savior: Jesus in the Movies (6, 1)

Makarushka, Irena S.M.

• Film Review: Holy Smoke! (4, 2)
• A Picture's Worth: Teaching Religion and Film (2, 3)
• Transgressing Goodness in Breaking the Waves (2, 1)

Mallinson, Jeffrey

• Film Review: Constantine (9, 1)

Mamon, Zinnat

• Film Review: Rendition (11, 2)

Marienberg, Evyatar

• Jews Have the Best Sex: The Hollywood Adventures of a Peculiar Medieval Jewish Text on Sexuality (14, 2)
  

Marsh, Clive

• Religion, Theology and Film in a Postmodern Age: A Response to John Lyden (2, 1)

Martin, Joel W.

• Anti-Feminism in Recent Apocalyptic Film (4, 1)

Martin, John

• Film Review: The Believer (7, 2)

Mason, Fred

• Film Review: Gamer (13, 2)

Matalon, Guy

• Report from Sundance 2005: Religion in Film (9, 1)
• Esther and The Mexican (5, 1)

Matties, Gordon

• Religion and Film: Capturing the Imagination (2, 3)

McDaniel, Justin

• The Emotional Lives of Buddhist Monks in Modern Thai Film (14,2)

McDowell, John C.

• Star Wars' Saving Return (13, 1)

McEver, Matthew

• Film Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (13, 1)
• Film Review: Planet of the Apes (5, 2)
• Film Review: Gladiator (4, 2)
• The Messianic Figure in Film: Christology Beyond the Biblical Epic (2, 2)

McGowan, Michael W.

• Film Review: Strategies of the Advocate: Inception and the dynamics of Conversion (14, 1)
• Film Review: Avatar: A View from the Inside: James Cameron’s Avatar (14, 1)
• Film Review: Star Trek (13, 1)

McLain, Karline

• Film Review: Om Shanti Om (12, 2)

McMahon, Christopher

• Fecundity and Almodóvar? Sexual Ethics and the Specter of Catholicism (10,2)

Megibben, Artie

• Film Review: Hannibal (5, 1)

Mercadante, Linda A.

• The God Behind the Screen: Pleasantville & The Truman Show (5, 2)
• Bess the Christ Figure? Theological Interpretarions of Breaking the Waves (5, 1)

Michael, Tony and Derry, Ken

• Jon Woo's The Killer and Girard (5, 1)

Miles, Carol

• Film Review: The Help (15, 2)
• Film Review: Antwone Fisher (7, 1)
• Film Review: Chocolat (5, 1)
• Film Review: Kingdom Come (5, 1)

Mills, Tony

• Film Review: Little Miss Sunshine (11, 1)

Moreman, Christopher M.

• Film Review: I Am Legend (12, 1)

Mork, Gordon R.

• Christ's Passion on Stage: The Traditional Melodrama of Deicide (8, 1 - Special Issue)

Mullen, Eve L.

• Orientalist Commercializations: Tibetan Buddhism in American Popular Film (2, 2)

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Newman, Marc T.

• It's Not Just a Job, It's a Calling: The Redemption of Soldiering as Religious Vocation in Saving Private Ryan (10,2)

Ng, Edwin

• The (Zen) Buddhist Heart of I ♥ Huckabees (14, 1)

Nishimura, Tetsuya and Boyd, James W.

• Shinto Perspectives in Miyazaki's Anime Film "Spirited Away" (8, 2)

Nouvet, Elysee

• Film Review: 21 Grams (8, 1)

Novetzke, Christian Lee

• Book Review: Mother India

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Oldenhage, Tania

• "Holocaust Laughter?" A German Response to Punch Me in the Stomach (1, 2)

Olea, Vincent A.

• Film Review: Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith (9, 2)

Olson, Dr. Duane

• Fall, Creation, and Redemption in Heil LaBute's The Shape of Things (8, 1)

Ondrich, Maria-Priska

• Amma n Movies: An Introduction (9, 2)

Ostrowski, Ally

• Found in Translation: From Hollywood Hits to Bollywood Blockbusters (11, 2)

Ostwalt, Conrad

• Armageddon at the Millenial Dawn (4, 1)
• Religion and Popular Movies (2, 3)
• Visions of the End. Secular Apocalypse in Recent Hollywood Film (2, 1)

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Paffenroth, Kim

• Film Depictions of Judas (5, 2)

Pahl, Jon

• Film Review: 8 Mile (7, 1)

Pannell, Rebecca

• Film Review: Holy Smoke! (4, 2)

Panelli, Annalisa

• Film Review: Gangs of New York (7, 1)

Parker, Ryan

• Film Review: Wendy and Lucy (13, 1)
• Film Review: No Country for Old Man (11, 2)
  

Pasulka, Diana L.

• Film Review: The Matrix: Reloaded (7, 2)

Pater, John

• Film Review: The Cell (4, 2)

Pawlikowski, OSM, Ph.D, John T.

• Christian Anti-Semitism: Past History, Present Challenges: Reflections in Light of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (8, 1 - Special issue)

Pearson, Ann

• Apocalyptic Visions - Beyond Corporeality (2, 3)

Phillips, Thomas E.

• Film Review: James' Journey to Jerusalem (8, 1)
• Film Review: Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie (6, 2)
• Film Review: Windtalkers (6, 2)

Plate, S. Brent

• Film Review: Black Swan (14, 2)
• Video Essay on Rrepesenting Religion in World Cinema (10, 1)
• Film Review: Lost in Translation (8, 1)
• Film Review: Bandits (6,1)
• Film Review: Dancer in the Dark (4, 2)
• Film Review: Ghost Dog:The Way of the Samurai (4, 2)
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