The Journal of Religion and Film Edited by John C. Lyden

PREVIOUS EDITIONS < < Volume Number and Issue 1, 1 1, 2 2, 1 2, 2 2, 3 Special Issue: Spotlight on Teaching 3, 1 3, 2 4, 1 4, 2 5, 1 5, 2 6, 1 6, 2 7, 1 7,2 8, Special Issue 1 Passion of the Christ 8,1 8,2 9, 1 9, 2 10, 1 10, 2 11,1 11,2 12, 1 12, 2 13, 1 13, 2 14, 1 14, 2 15, 1 15, 2 16,1       Volume 15, Number 2 (October 2011) Editorial Articles Angels in the Metroplex: Hegel, the Apocrypha, and Intertexutality in Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire) by Carrol Fry Desiring Oedipus in Stephen Frear’s The Grifters By Melissa Tanti Of Gods and Men (2010) by Wendy M. Wright Job of Suburbia? A Serious Man and Viewer Perceptions of the Biblical by Dr David Tollerton Majid Majidi and Baran: Iranian Cinematic Poetics and the Spiritual Poverty of Rumi by Michael Pittman A Serious Man by Rabbi Norman M Cohen Fourth Biennial VisionMaker Film Festival Report Walt Kowalski A Christ-Figure? Christic Resonances in Gran Torino by Diane Corkery Watching Ancient Egyptian Poetry...Among Other Histrionics by Scott Morschauser Film Reviews The Adjustment Bureau - William Rodriguez The Mill and the Cross - David Humbert The Rite - Gregory Chad Wilkes Tree of Life - Danny Fisher Tree of Life - Alan A. Stone Winter's Bone - Rebecca Albright The Help - Carol Miles   Volume 15, Number 1 (April 2011) Between Chester and Capetown Transformations of the Gospel in Son of Man by Mark Dornford-May By Reinhold Zwick The (Un)Christian Road Warrior:The Crisis of Religious Representation in The Book of Eli (2010) By James Aston and John Walliss In the Kingdom of Men: Love, Faith and Spirituality in von Trier's Breaking the Waves By Ingrid Fernandez Jesus "Camp:" Camp, Christianity, and Gender Ambiguity in Transamerica By JoAnne C. Juett Screening the Silly: The Christian Iconography of Roberto Rossellini’s Francesco, giullare di Dio By Peter Doebler Report from Sundance 2011: Religion in Independent Film Slamdance Film Festival Report 2011 “This is my world!” Son of Man (Jezile) and Cross-Cultural Convergences of Bible and World By S. D. Giere, PhD “What Kind of Magic is This? How Come I Can’t Help Adore You?”: Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark as a Religious Film By Gilbert Yeoh Film Reviews Country Strong - David Fillingim The Third Testament - William L. Blizek Tron: Legacy - Joseph Laycock True Grit - Danny Fisher The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader - Jason Staples Volume 14, Number 2 Editorial Articles The Divine Exhaustion of Myth and Parable in Cronenberg’s A History of Violence by Rich Cooper The Emotional Lives of Buddhist Monks in Modern Thai Film by Justin McDaniel Jesus in Armani by William L. Blizek Jews Have the Best Sex: The Hollywood Adventures of a Peculiar Medieval Jewish Text on Sexuality by Evyatar Marienberg Oblivion beyond Forgetting: A Buddhist Reflection on Suffering in Ashes of Time by Heawon Choi When the Pot Plays Potter: “Isaiah”, Toy Story and Religious Socialization by Paul Tremblay Film Reviews Black Swan - S. Brent Plate The Last Exorcism - Joseph Laycock Recalling a Buddha:  Memories of HH Karmapa XVI - Danny Fisher Tetro - Jorge Cruikshank Vision - William L. Blizek You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger - John S. Vassar Volume 14, No. 1 Editorial Articles The Birth of a Hebrew Tragedy: Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream as a Morality Play By Marat Grinberg Enlightenment Through Film: Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East? By Wanda Avila The Jackleg Testament, Part One: Jack and Eve: Artist Jay Bolotin with his postmodern take on Genesis, the first woodcut motion picture ever made B y Michael J. Krainak Locating Heaven: Fatih Akin’s Meditation on the Outcome of Tolerance and Hospitality By Allen H.Redmon Man’s Desire Exceeds His Grasp –The Prestige as Utopia By Daniel Cojocaru When Jesus was a Girl: Polymythic Female Christ Figures in Whale Rider and Steel Magnolias By David Fillingim The (Zen) Buddhist Heart of I ♥ Huckabees By Edwin Ng Slamdance Film Festival Report 2010 Report from Sundance TwentyTen: Religion in Independent Film 2010 Special Section: Avatar Misogyny Under the Dome? - Elaine Carlson James Cameron's Cathedral: Avatar Revives the Religious Spectacle - Craig Detweiler Spirituality as Anti-Structure in James Cameron's Avatar - Florian Jeserich Avatar: “I See You”: Na’vigating the Bridge between Scientific Observation and Religious Apprehension inAvatar - L. Leann Kanda and Rachel Wagner Avatar: The Sacred in James Cameron’s Avatar - Carol Linnitt Avatar - John Lyden Avatar: A View from the Inside: James Cameron’s Avatar - Michael W. McGowan Special Section: Inception Inception - Danny Fisher Kicks and Tricks in Christopher Nolan’s Inception - Craig Detweiler Shadowlands, Myth, and the Creation of Meaning in Inception - Jason Staples Strategies of the Advocate: Inception and the Dynamics of Conversion - Michael W. McGowan Film Reviews Ajami - Dustin Zielke As Lillith - Joseph Ballan Book of Eli - Adam L. Porter Legion - Charles E. Bowie Living Downstream - Stephanie Kirkwood Walker The Oath - Joseph Ballan [REC] 2 - Andy Chi Kit Wong Sherlock Holmes - Mark Lambert "Sunday's Coming" Movie Trailer - William L. Blizek Toy Story 3 - William Rodriguez Volume 13, Number 2 (October 2009) TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Articles Bringing out the Meaning: Deacy, Nolan, Scorsese, and what films 'mean' By Dr Robert Ellis “But it did happen”: Sound as Deep Narrative in P.T. Anderson’s Magnolia (1999) By Theodora Hawksley Donnie Darko and the Messianic Motif By Kevin Dodd From The Rapture to Left Behind: The Movie and Beyond: Evangelical Christian End Times Films from 1941 to The Present By John Walliss God in the Details: The Cleansing of the Temple in Four Jesus Films By David Landry Satan’s Seductress and the Apocalyptic Hero: The Body in American Apocalyptic Films at the Turn of the Century By Katherine Low Film Reviews Billu - Rebecca Howell Delhi 6 - Rebecca Howell Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex - Dustin Zielke District 9 - Jacob Simpson Gamer - Fred Mason Inglourious Basterds - Michael Rennett The Invention of Lying - Bill Blizek Jennifer's Body - Joseph Laycock A Serious Man - Carol Linnitt Sita Sings the Blues - Kevin Dodd Volume 13, Number 1 (April 2009) TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Articles Children of Men and a Plural Messianism By Sarah Schwartzman Film and the Apologetics of Biblical Violence By Hector Avalos God and the Bodhisattva: A Buddhist Reading of Stranger Than Fiction By Richard Hutchinson The Path of Jihad in the Yacoubian Building by Michael Gardaz The Joker Is Satan, and So Are We: Girard and The Dark Knight By Charles K. Bellinger Star Wars' Saving Return By Dr. John C. McDowell Christian Signature and Archetype in Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life By Donald R. Riccomini Report from Sundance 2009: Religion in Independent Film By William L. Blizek and Michele Desmarais Slamdance Film Festival By William L. Blizek and Michele Desmarais Film Reviews Australia - Mark Lambert The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - Kathryn Carrière The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Matthew McEver Dead Snow - David Humbert Defiance - Michael Rennett Doubt - William L. Blizek Fitna - Amarnath Amarasingam Knowing - Andy Chi Kit Wong Quantum of Solace - Danny Fisher Seven Pounds - Britt Hultgren Small Engine Repair - David Fillingim Star Trek - Michael W. McGowan Taken - Mark Lambert Terminator Salvation - Kathryn Carrière WALL-E - Joseph Laycock Waltz with Bashir - William L. Blizek Watchmen - Jacob Simpson Wendy and Lucy - Ryan Parker The Wrestler - Britt Hultgren Year One - Anthony Limbert Volume 12, Number 2 (October 2008) TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Articles Being True to the Text: From Genesis to Harry Potter By Paul V.M. Flesher Dead Men Don’t Lie: Sacred Texts in Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man and Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai By Melissa Anne-Marie Curley Jesus Christ, Superstar? Why the Gospels Don’t Make Good Movies By Bill Jenkins Preacher, Shepherd, Judge: The Role of the Outlaw Prophet in American Film By Heather Clements To “Elevate Unfortunate Humanity”On-screen: Linking World War I and Protestant Missions through Silent Film By Christopher Anderson True, Valid Death Off a Movie Screen: Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There By David L. Smith Film Reviews Amongst White Clouds - Marwood Larson-Harris The Dark Knight - Danny Fisher Expelled: No Intellegence Allowed - Gregory Chad Wilkes Henry Poole Is Here - Chad W. D. Bolton Hofshat Kaits (My Father My Lord) - Elisa Ruiz Velasco Garcia Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Danny Fisher My Winnipeg - Frederick J. Ruf Om Shanti Om - Karline McLain Religulous - William L. Blizek There Will Be Blood - Scott Clyburn Volume 12, 1 (April 2008) TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Articles That "Barton Fink Feeling” and the Fiery Furnace: The Book of Daniel and Joel and Ethan Coen's Barton Fink by Matt Stefon Borat and Anti-Semitism By William Closson James Memory and Responsibility: An Interview with Margarethe von Trotta on Rosenstrasse by Marty Fairbairn Majid Majidi and New Iranian Cinema By Annie Gregory Foucault, Discipline and the Self: Exploring Mary's Relationship with God in The Nativity Story by Amarnath Amarasingam Report from Sundance 2008: Religion in Independent Film by Editors William L. Blizek and Rubina Ramji Film Reviews Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - James H. Thrall The Golden Compass - James H. Thrall I Am Legend - Christopher M. Moreman, Ph.D. Jodhaa Akbar - Jessica Frazier Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del fauno) - Jennifer Schuberth In Good Conscience: Sister Jeannine Gramick's Journey of Faith - Mary Ann Beavis   Volume 11, No. 2 (October 2007) TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Articles The Persistence of the Sacred in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet by Christopher Baker Seeing with Buddha's Eyes:  Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...and Spring by Melissa Conroy Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic: Science, Religion, and The War of the Worlds - Part II by Douglas E. Cowan Screening the Temptation: Interpretation and Indeterminacy in Cinematic Transformations of a Gospel Story by David B. Howell Found in Translation: From Hollywood Hits to Bollywood Blockbusters By Ally Ostrowski Fight Club: An Exploration of Buddhism By Charley Reed Film Reviews Atonement - Jon Snodgrass The Bourne Ultimatum - Danny Fisher Jesus Camp - Michael Friesen Katyn - Christopher Garbowski The Kingdom - Bridget Blomfield The Kite Runner - William L. Blizek No Country for Old Men - Ryan Parker Searching for Wrong-Eyed Jesus - Vince Caperelli, Jr. Rendition - Zinnat Mamon Silent Light (Stellet licht) - Greg Watkins Vajra Sky Over Tibet - Shannon Foskett Volume 11, No. 1 (April 2007) TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Articles Age before Beauty: A Comparative Study of Martyrs in American Disaster Movies and Their Medieval Predecessors by Lena Roos In the name of the Father, the Daughter and Eddie Scrap: Trinitarian Theology in Million Dollar Baby By Sharon Roubach Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic: Science, Religion, and The War of the Worlds by Douglas E. Cowan Mission (Not) Accomplished: Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Light and Darkness by Richmond B. Adams Report from Slamdance 2007 Children of God: Lost and Found Unsettled Report from Sundance 2007: Religion in Independent Film Angel-A Away From Her Bugmaster Conversion The Devil Came on Horseback Enemies of Happiness The Fighting Cholitas For the Bible Tells Me So Four Sheets to the Wind Grace is Gone Hot House I Just Wanted To Be Somebody The Island Khadak The Legacy Miss Navajo The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun Teeth The "Unfinished Business” of Kill Bill: Cinematic Discourse In and Out of the Dark By Allen H Redmon Film Reviews Little Miss Sunshine - Tony Mills The Nativity Story - Michelle Thurlow Volume 10, No. 2 (October 2006) TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Articles Diary of a Country Priest: The Transcendent on Film by Wanda Avila, Ph.D. Fecundity and Almodóvar? Sexual Ethics and the Specter of Catholicism by Christopher McMahon From Superman to Brahman: The Religious Shift of The Matrix Mythology by Jeffery Wittung and Daniel Bramer It's Not Just a Job, It's a Calling: The Redemption of Soldiering as Religious Vocation in Saving Private Ryan by Marc T. Newman The Passion Re-Cut: If "It Is As It Was”, Why the Redaction? by Clodagh M. Weldon The Superhero's Mythic Journey: Death and the Heroic Cycle in Superman by Mark D. Stucky They Call Me Joy: Philippine Protestantism as Local Culture by Brian Howell and Anthony dela Fuente Video Essays Richard Burridge on Faith Odyssey: A Journey Through Life Robert Johnston on Reel Spirituality, rev. & exp. ed.: Theology and Film in Dialogue (Engaging Culture) Bryan Stone on Faith and Film: Theological Themes at the Cinema Film Reviews   Volume 10, Number 1 (April 2006) TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Articles Report from Sundance 2006: Religion in Independent Film The Construction of a Christ-figure within the 1956 and 1923 Versions of Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Comandments by Anton Karl Kozlovic Portraying the Quest for Buddhist Wisdom?: A Comparative Study of The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Geoff Baker Video Essays Brent Plate on Representing Religion in World Cinema John Lyden on Film as Religion Film Reviews Dopamine - Mark Roncace The Exorcism of Emily Rose - Donna Yarri Flight of the Phoenix - Bill Jenkins Grizzly Man - John W. Vest Harry Potter, The Goblet of Fire..and the Communion of Saints? - Andrew Cooke The Holy Girl - Frederick J. Ruf I ♥ Huckabees - Dr. Donna Yarri The Machinist - Julien Fielding Maria Full of Grace - Vince Caperelli, Jr. Millions - Clodagh Weldon Munich - Jason Flato DVD Review: The Ultimate Matrix Collection - Danny Fisher What the Bleep Do We Know? - Dr. Donna Yarri Volume 9, Number 2 (October 2005) TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Articles The Day the Earth Stood Still: 1950s Sci-Fi, Religion and the Alien By Matthew Etherden Revisiting Violence in The Godfather: The Ambiguous Space of the Victimage Model By Paul Graham A Community of Characters – the Narrative Self in the Films of Wes Anderson By Brannon M. Hancock Knowledge and Mortality in Black Runner and Genesis 2-3 By Kyle Keefer Amma n Movies: An Introduction By Maria-Priska Ondrich From Navy Seals to The Siege By Rubina Ramji He is the One: The Matrix Trilogy's Postmodern Movie Messiah By Mark D. Stucky I, Robot: You Gotta Have Heart By Richard Curran Trussell Film Reviews Crash - Joe Rogers Land of the Dead - Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare Napoleon Dynamite - Bill Jenkins Sideways - Frederick J. Ruf Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring) - Dr Mike King Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith - Vincent A. Olea To End All Wars - Denny Wayman and Hal Conklin Volume 9, Number 1 (April 2005) TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Articles Report from Sundance 2005: Religion in Independent Film Archetypes on Screen: Odysseus, St. Paul, Christ and the American Cinematic Hero and Anti-Hero By John Fitch, III Epiphany of the Throne-Chariot: Merkabah Mysticism and the Film Contact by Antonio D. Sison Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Question of Transcendence By David L. Smith Castaway and Cast Away: Colonial, Imperial, and Religious Discourses in Daniel Defoe and Robert Zemeckis By Catherine Craft-Fairchild Searches for the Significant: Robert Zemeckis' Cast Away as a Late Twentieth Century Response to Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe By Catharine Walker Bergström Bloodthirsty Salvation: Behind the Popular Polarized Reaction to Gibson's The Passion By Kelly Denton-Borhaug 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 Papers Presented 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 Additional Papers from the Society of Biblical Literature Forum, March 2004, which are related to the issue at the Symposium. 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 Editorial 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 Film Reviews: S. Brent Plate, Editor The Believer - John Martin Bruce Almighty - Julien R. Fielding Equilibrium - Michael Karounos The Matrix: Reloaded - Diana Walsh-Pasulka Sylvia - J. Sage Elwell 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 Film Reviews: S. Brent Plate, Editor 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 The Pianist - Christopher Garbowski Signs - Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare Sunshine State - Glenn Whitehouse Sweet Sixteen - Jessica Frazier 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 Schillebeeck 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 The 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 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 Pater Dancer in the Dark - S. Brent Plate Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai - S. Brent Plate Gladiator - Matthew McEver God's Army - James Delmont 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 Film Reviews: S. Brent Plate, Editor 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 Volume 1, No. 2 (October 1997) TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Articles Babette's Feast: A Religious Film By Wendy M. Wright Kierkegaard at Babette's Feast: The Return to the Finite By Jean Schuler 'Holocaust Laughter'? A German Response to Punch Me In the Stomachfont> By Tania Oldenhage Redressing Jewish Difference in Tania Modleski's 'Cinema and the Dark Continent' By Laura Levitt To Commend or To Critique? The Question of Religion and Film Studies By John Lyden Special Section: Bringing the World to the Classroom: Using 'Homemade' Documentary Video in Religious Studies By Scott C. Alexander Volume 1, No. 1 (April 1997) TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Articles Images of God in the Movies By Andrew M. Greeley The Rapture: A Challenging Vision of Horror By Carl B. Greiner Picturing the Way in Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? By Michael L. Gillespie Mozart & Salieri, Cain & Able: A Cinematic Transformation of Genesis 4 By Gregory Allen Robbins

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