Film Reviews

• Constantine - Jeffrey Mallinson

• Dogville - Todd Comer

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Brannon M Hancock

• Kinsey - Chad Wilkes
  
• The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) - Frederick J. Ruf

• The Terminal - Todd A. Comer
  

Volume 8, Number 2 (October 2004)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Articles

• An Orthodox Perspective on Gibson's The Passion of Christ
  By Rev. Oliver Herbel

• Daniel and The Sonnenscheins: Biblical Cycles in István Szabó's Film Sunshine
  By Vladimir Tumanov

• Servant of the Story: Judas as Tragic Hero in Film
  by Kaile Shilling

• Shinto Perspectives in Miyazaki's Anime Film "Spirited Away"
  By James W. Boyd and Tetsuya Nishimura
  

• Still Crazy: An Unsung Homage to the New Testament
  By Mary Ann Beavis
  

• The Birth of a Nation as American Myth
  By Richard C. Salter
  

• The Devil We Already Know: Medieval Representations of a Powerless Satan in Modern American Cinema
  by Kelly J. Wyman

Volume 8, Number 1 (April 2004)

This issue of the Journal of Religion & Film is sponsored by:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Between the Worlds: Liminality and Self-Sacrifice in Princess Mononoke
  by Christine Hoff Kraemer

• Blessed Broken Bodies: Exploring Redemption in Central Station and Breaking the Waves
  by Jeanette Reedy Solano

• Fall, Creation, and Redemption in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things
  By Dr. Duane Olson

• The Invisible Body of God: Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man
  by Melissa Conroy

• Mystic River: A Parable of Christianity's Dark Side
  by Charlene P. E. Burns

• Report from Sundance 2004: Religion in Independent Film
  by William L. Blizek

• Twice Repressed: The Case of Ondaatje's Kip
  by Nikky-Singh

• The Ustad: Domesticating the Other from With(in/out)
  by Anilkumar Payyappilly Vijayan

Film Reviews: S. Brent Plate, Editor

• Anything Else - John Vassar
  
• Big Fish - Kent L. Brintnall

• The Crime of Father Amaro - Donna Yarri

• Dekada 70 - Antonio D. Sison

• The House of Sand and Fog - Michael Van Dyke

• In this World - Antonio D. Sison

• James' Journey to Jerusalem - Thomas E. Phillips

• Kill Bill II - Frederick Ruf

• Lost in Translation - S. Brent Plate

• Monsieur Ibrahim - Frederick Ruf

• Monster - Kent L. Brintnall

• Northfork - Mike King

• The Passion of the Christ - Mario DeGiglio - Bellmare

• 21 Grams - Elysee Nouvet

Special Issue on The Passion of the Christ

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

• Are the Gospel Passion Accounts Anti-Jewish? by Dennis Hamm, S.J.

• Christ's Passion on Stage: The Traditional Melodrama of Deicide by Gordon R. Mork

• Christian Anti-Semitism: Past History, Present Challenges: Reflections in Light of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ
  by John T. Pawlikowski, OSM, Ph.D

• Passion-ate Moments in the Jesus Film Genre
  By Adele Reinhartz

• Romans, Greeks, and Jews: The World of Jesus and the Disciples
  by Sidnie White Crawford

• The Arrest and Sentencing of Jesus: A Historical Reconstruction
  by Philip A. Cunningham

• Gibson's Passion: A Case Study in Media Manipulation?
  by Mark Silk

• Sectarian Catholicism and Mel Gibson
  by Michael G. Lawler

• Biblical Scholarship and the Passion Surrounding The Passion of the Christ
  by Frances Flannery-Dailey

• Biblical Allusions, Biblical Illusions: Hollywood Blockbuster and Scripture
  by Nicola Denzey

• History, Hollywood, and the Bible: Some Thoughts on Gibson's Passion
  by Paula Fredriksen

• Judas the Film: Storytellers Then and Now
  by John Dart

• Filming Jesus: Between Authority and Heresy
  by Paul V. M. Flesher and Robert Torry

Volume 7, Number 2 (October 2003)

This issue of the Journal of Religion & Film is sponsored by:

In Memory of Michael Bird

1941-2003

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articles

• Ancient Egyptian Religion on the Silver Screen: Modern Anxieties about Race, Ethnicity, and Religion
  by Caroline T. Schroeder

• "Angels Carrying Savage Weapons": Uses of the Bible in Contemporary Horror Films
  by Mary Ann Beavis

• Any Gods Out There? Perceptions of Religion from Star Wars and Star Trek
  By John S. Schultes

• Bewitching the Box Office: Harry Potter and Religious Controversy
  by Rachel Wagner

• When The Master Is Not Master: The Critique of Enlightenment in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  by J. Heath Atchley

• Reassessing The Matrix/Reloaded
  by Julien R. Fielding

• Robot Heavens and Robot Dreams: Ultimate Reality in A.I. and Other Recent Films
  by Frances Flannery-Dailey

• Symbolic Power and Religious Impotence in Paul Verhoeven's Spetters
  by Richard S. Ascough

• The Believer - John Martin

• Bruce Almighty - Julien R. Fielding

• Equilibrium- Michael Karounos

• Sylvia - J. Sage Elwell

• The Matrix: Reloaded - Diana Walsh-Pasulka

Volume 7, Number 1 (April 2003)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Articles

• From "The Ten Commandments" to the "Decalogue"
  by John M. Grondelski

• Moses and the Reel Exodus
  by G. Andrew Tooze

• 'It All Happens Here:' Locating Salvation in Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant
  by Simon J. Taylor

• Native American Religion and Film: Interviews with Chris Eyre and Sherman Alexie
  by Julien R. Fielding

• Seeing Beyond the End of the World in Strange Days and Until the End of the World
  by S. Brent Plate and Tod Linafelt

• The Unholy Biblical Subtexts and Other Religious Elements Built into Superman: The Movie(1978) and Superman II (1981)
  by Anton Karl Kozlovic

• Report from Sundance2003: Religion in Independent Film
  by Elyse Sara

• 8 Mile - Jon Pahl

• About Schmidt - Andrea D. Lobel

• Antwone Fisher - Carol Miles
  

• The Clay Bird (Matir Moina) - Lincoln Shahid
  

• Daredevil - Julien R. Fielding

• Divine Intervention - Antonio D. Sison

• Bend It Like Beckham - Béatrice Schatzmann-von Aesch

• Gangs of New York - Annalisa Panelli

• The Guru - Julien R. Fielding

• Heaven - Antonio D. Sison

• Hell House - Michael Karounos

Volume 6, Number 2 (October 2002)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Articles

• From Peepshow to Prayer: Toward a Spirituality of the Movies
  by Richard Blake

• "Beautiful Necessities": American Beauty and the Idea of Freedom
  by David L. Smith

• Black Song, White Song: Salvation Through The Radio in The Apostle and Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
  By Michelle Cormier

• Cinema and Theology: The Case of Heaven Over the Marshes
  by André Bazin (Translated and edited by Bert Cardullo)

• Cinematic Illustrations in Christian Theology by James S. Spiegel

• The Holy, Non-Christic Biblical Subtexts in Superman: The Movie (1978) and Superman II (1981) By Anton Karl Kozlovic

Film Reviews: S. Brent Plate, Editor

• Atanarjuat - Amir Hussain

• Igby Goes Down - Jessica Frazier

• Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie - Thomas E. Phillips

• Minority Report - Michael Karounos

• Signs - Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare

• Sunshine State - Glenn Whitehouse

• Sweet Sixteen - Jessica Frazier

• The Pianist - Christopher Garbowski

• Windtalkers - Thomas E. Phillips

Volume 6, Number 1 (April 2002)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Articles

• Celluloid Savior: Jesus in the Movies
  by Jeffrey H. Mahan

• Perfumed Nightmare and Negative Experiences of Contrast: Third Cinema as Filmic Interpretation of Schillebeeckx
  by Antonio Sison

• Capturing C. S. Lewis's "Mere" Christianity: Another Look at Shadowlands
  by Mary Dodson

• Superman as Christ-Figure: The American Pop Culture Movie Messiah
  by Anton Karl Kozlovic

• Dharma Blues
  by Robert Castle

• Rosetta Stone: A Consideration of the Dardenne Brothers' Rosetta
  by Bert Cardullo

Film Reviews: S. Brent Plate, Editor

• A.I.: Artificial Intelligence - Ben Forest

• Bandits - S. Brent Plate

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin

• Ice Age - Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin

• In the Bedroom - Brad Stetson

• K-Pax - Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin
• Kandahar - Antonio D. Sison

• Vanilla Sky - Jason M. Flato

Volume 5, Number 2 (October 2001)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Articles

• The Catholic Imagination in Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz
  by Christopher Garbowski

• From Holy Aliens to Cyborg Saviours: Biblical Subtexts in Four Science Fiction Films
  by Anton Karl Kozlovic

• Wake up!  Gnosticism and Buddhism in The Matrix
  by Frances Flannery-Dailey and Rachel Wagner

• Film Depictions of Judas
  by Kim Paffenroth

• Robert Zemeckis's Contact as a Late-Twentieth Century Paradiso
  by Gregory M. Sadlek

• The Sanctification of Fear: Images of the Religious in Horror Films
  by Bryan Stone

• The God Behind the Screen: Pleasantville & The Truman Show
  by Linda A. Mercadante

Film Reviews: S. Brent Plate, Editor

• Planet of the Apes - Matt McEver
  

• Tomb Raider - Nicola Denzey

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Volume 5, Number 1 (April 2001)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Articles

• Faith and the Absent Savior in Central Station
  by Donna Bowman

• The Sweet Hereafter: Law, Wisdom and Family Revisited
  by Mary Ann Beavis

• Jon Woo's The Killer and Girard
  by Tony Michael and Ken Derry

• Bess the Christ Figure? Theological Interpretation of Breaking the Waves
  by Linda Mercadante

• Esther and The Mexican
  by Guy Matalon

Film Reviews: S. Brent Plate, Editor

• Chocolat - Carol Miles

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon- J. Heath Atchley

• Hannibal - Artie Megibben

• Kingdom Come - Carol Miles

• Songs from the Second Floor - Yoram Allon

Volume 4, No. 2 (October 2000)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Articles

• Buddhism, Christianity, and The Matrix: The Dialectic of Myth-Making in Contemporary Cinema
  By James L. Ford

• Fantasy Verses Redemption: Religious Possibility in Little Voice
  By Christopher Deacy

• Fargo: A Biblical Morality Play
  By Mary Ann Beavis

• Magnolia and the Signs of the Times: A Theological Reflection
  By Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare

Film Reviews: S. Brent Plate, Editor

• The Cell - John Plater

• Dancer in the Dark - S. Brent Plate

• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai - S. Brent Plate

• God's Army - James Delmont

• Gladiator - Matthew McEver

• Holy Smoke! - Irena Makarushka

• Holy Smoke! - Rebecca Pannell

• Keeping the Faith - Donna Bowman

• Mission: Impossible II - Robert Arjet

• My Son the Fanatic - Dan Clanton

• A Sign From God - Elyse D. Sara

• The Silence - Linda Ehrlich

Volume 4, No. 1 (April 2000)

This issue of the Journal of Religion & Film is sponsored by:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Articles

• Anti-Feminism in Recent Apocalyptic Film
  By Joel W. Martin

• The Apocalyptic Cosmology of Star Wars
  By John Lyden

• Apocalyptic Visions
  By Amir Hussain

• Armageddon at the Millennial Dawn
  By Conrad Ostwalt

• Bruce Willis as the Messiah: Human Effort, Salvation and Apocalypticism in Twelve Monkeys
  By Frances Flannery Dailey

• I Dream, Therefore I Am: What Dreams May Come
  By Susan L. Schwartz

• Report from Sundance 2000: Religion in Independent Films
  By Greg Watkins

• Bowfinger - Kate Lavia

• Resurrection - Nicole Blizek

• Sleepy Hollow - S. Brent Plate

Volume 3, No. 2 (October 1999)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Articles

• Do You Think You're What They Say You Are? Reflections on Jesus Christ Superstar
  By Mark Goodacre

• Performing Selves/Performing as Self: Autobiographical Films of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
  By Jennifer Levi

• Andrei Rublev: Religious Epiphany in Art
  By Nigel Savio D'Sa

• Seeing and Being: Distinctively Filmic and Religious Elements in Film
  By Greg Watkins

• The Apostle: A Psychiatric Appraisal
  By Carl Greiner

Film Reviews: S. Brent Plate, Editor

• Stigmata - Ron Burke

• Lovers of the Arctic Circle- S. Brent Plate

Volume 3, No. 1 (April 1999)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Articles

• Stillness in Motion: The Sleeping Man of Oguri Kohei
  By Linda C. Ehrlich

• Scripture on the Silver Screen
  By Adele Reinhartz

• Report from Sundance 1999: Religion in Independent Films
  By William L. Blizek

• Religion and Violence in Popular Film
  By Bryan P. Stone

• The Story Behind YAKOANA
  By Dale Stover

Volume 2, No. 3 (1998)
Special Issue: Spotlight on Teaching

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Articles

• Seduction by Visual Image
  By Barbara De Concini

• Teaching Field of Dreams as Cosmogonic Myth
  By Mara Donaldson

• Teaching Religion and Film
  By Paul V. M. Flesher and Robert Torry

• A Picture's Worth: Teaching Religion and Film
  By Irene Makarushka

• Religion and Film: Capturing the Imagination
  By Gordon Matties

• Religion and Popular Movies
  By Conrad Ostwalt

• Apocalyptic Visions - Beyond Corporeality
  By Ann Pearson

Volume 2, No. 2 (October 1998)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Articles

• Jesus in Film: Hollywood Perspectives on the Jewishness of Jesus
  By Adele Reinhartz

• The Messianic Figure in Film: Christology Beyond the Biblical Epic
  By Matthew McEver

• The Ties That Bind and Bless the Soul': Grace and Noir in Schrader's Light Sleeper
  By Jason Ambrosiano

• Orientalist Commercializations: Tibetan Buddhism in American Popular Film
  By Eve L. Mullen

• Religious Faith and Science in Contact
  By Bryan P. Stone

Volume 2, No. 1 (April 1998)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Articles

• The Apostle: An Interview with Robert Duvall
  By Bill Blizek and Ron Burke

• Religion, Theology and Film in a Postmodern Age: A Response to John Lyden
  By Clive Marsh

• Visions of the End. Secular Apocalypse in Recent Hollywood Film
  By Conrad Ostwalt

• Transgressing Goodness in Breaking the Waves
  By Irena S. M. Makarushka

• The End of Desire: Theologies of Eros in the Song of Songs and Breaking the Waves
  By Kyle Keefer and Tod Linafelt.

Special Section: Bringing the World to the Classroom:

• Ritual, Music, Sociability and Censure: Making a Film on Sufi 'DHIKR' in Egypt
  By Valerie J. Hoffman