God in the Movies
eBook - ePub

God in the Movies

  1. 196 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

God in the Movies

About this book

The religious imagination is alive and well in the movies. Contrary to those who criticize Hollywood, popular movies very often have metaphorically represented God on the screen. From Clint Eastwood as an avenging angel in Pale Rider and Nicolas Cage as a lovesick angel in City of Angels to Jessica Lange as an angel of death in All That Jazz, and from George Burns as God in Oh, God! to Audrey Hepburn in Always to pure white light in Fearless and Flatliners, God is very much present in the movies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. God in the Movies
  8. 2. Movies as Story and Metaphor
  9. 3. Always a Lover: Audrey Hepburn as Lady Wisdom
  10. 4. Life, Love, and All That Jazz: Jessica Lange and the Passion of God
  11. 5. Babette’s Feast of Love: Symbols Subtle but Patent
  12. 6. Is This Heaven? No, It’s Iowa
  13. 7. Pale Rider
  14. 8. Ghost
  15. 9. Flatliners: Forgiveness Stronger than Death
  16. 10. Jacob’s Ladder: God in the Nightmare
  17. 11. Angel Angst and the Direction of Desire
  18. 12. A Note on Purgatory in the Movies
  19. 13. How to Put God in a Movie
  20. 14. Magical Realism and the Problem of Evil
  21. 15. European Novel, American Movie, Japanimation: The Evolution of Storytelling
  22. 16. Conclusion
  23. Index