Beautiful Light
eBook - ePub

Beautiful Light

Religious Meaning in Film

  1. 282 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Beautiful Light

Religious Meaning in Film

About this book

Though "religious" films usually don't get much respect in Hollywood, religion still regularly finds its way into the movies. In  Beautiful Light  Roy Anker seeks out the often unnoticed connections between film and religion and shows how even films that aren't overtly religious or Christian in their content can be filled with deep religious insights and spiritual meaning. Closely examining nine critically acclaimed films, including  Magnolia, The Apostle, American Gigolo, and M. Night Shyamalan's  Wide Awake, Anker analyzes the ways in which these movies explore what it means to be human—and what it means, as human beings, to wrestle with a sometimes unwieldy divine presence. Addressing questions of doubt and belief, despair and elation, hatred and love, Anker's work sheds "beautiful light" on some of Hollywood's most profound and memorable films.

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Information

Publisher
Eerdmans
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780802873699
eBook ISBN
9781467446389
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Through Wonder to Veneration
  7. 1. “NOT ALL ANGELS HAVE WINGS”: Wonder, Light, and Love in M. Night Shyamalan’s Wide Awake
  8. 2. AND THE BLIND SHALL SEE: Grasping the Radiance of Being in The Color of Paradise
  9. 3. THE EDUCATION OF A ONE-MAN PREACHING MACHINE: The Realization of Love in The Apostle
  10. 4. LOVE’S PURE LIGHT: Moral Light and Reconciliation in Dead Man Walking
  11. 5. WHEN HOPE BREAKS OUT: Love and Redemption in The Shawshank Redemption
  12. 6. “IT’S TAKEN ME SO LONG TO FIND YOU”: Search and Rescue in Paul Schrader’s American Gigolo
  13. 7. “HOW HIGH CAN I FLY?”: Murder and Sacramental Ascent in Tom Tykwer’s Heaven
  14. 8. “IT CAN HAPPEN”: Frogs, Deliverance, and Reconciliation in P. T. Anderson’s Magnolia
  15. 9. “THE GLORY SMILING THROUGH”: Wonder and Beauty in The Thin Red Line
  16. Filmography
  17. Index