Small Screen, Big Picture
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Small Screen, Big Picture

Television and Lived Religion

  1. 535 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Small Screen, Big Picture

Television and Lived Religion

About this book

A pioneering study at the intersection of religion and media, Small Screen, Big Picture treats television as a virtual meeting place where Americans across racial, ethnic, economic and religious lines find instructive and inspirational narratives. An interdisciplinary tour de force, this book describes how television converts social concerns, cultural conundrums and metaphysical questions into stories that explore and even shape who we are and would like to be--the building blocks of religious speculation.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page, Title Page, Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Section I: Old Wine in New Skins
  7. 1. True Believers and Atheists Need Not Apply: Faith and Mainstream Television Drama
  8. 2. In the Beginning . . . Deadwood
  9. 3. The Wire: Playing the Game
  10. 4. "For What I Have Done and What I Have Failed to Do”: Vernacular Catholicism and The West Wing
  11. 5. Mixed Blessing: Generational Effects of Interfaith Marriage in Everwood and The O.C.
  12. 6. "The Fire Next Time”: Sleeper Cell and Muslims on Television Post 9/11
  13. Section II: Neither Male nor Female
  14. 7. “Elect Xena God”: Religion Remixed in a (Post-)Television Culture
  15. 8. “You Know How It Is with Nuns . . .”: Religion and Television’s Sacred/Secular Fetuses
  16. 9. Moralizing Whiteness in Joan of Arcadia
  17. 10. “A Vagina Ain’t a Halo”: Gender and Religion in Saving Grace and Battlestar Galactica
  18. Section III: Revelation
  19. 11. “Chiariidaa o Sukue, Sekai o Sukue!”: Nuclear Dread and the PokĂ©monization of American Religion in Season One of Heroes
  20. 12. You Lost Me: Mystery, Fandom, and Religion in ABC’s Lost
  21. 13. “Have a Little Faith”: Religious Vision in Fox’s Prison Break
  22. 14. “Who Am I? Where Am I Going?”: Life, Death, and Religion in The Sopranos
  23. 15. A Television Auteur Confronts God: The Religious Imagination of Tom Fontana
  24. Epilogue
  25. Notes
  26. Bibliography
  27. Contributors
  28. Index