
Christmas on the Screen
Reviewing the Evolution of American Spirituality
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
"Christmas movies are revealing windows into religion, consumerism, family, and American pop culture, and Zukowski offers a compelling, highly readable guide to this long-flourishing genre. Exploring classics as well as flops, he illuminates both the resilience and the limitations of the holiday's celebration on screen." —Leigh E. Schmidt, Washington University in St. Louis, author of Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays
How the Grinch Stole Christmas weighs materialism against community. The Polar Express tests the wonder of miracles in an age of cynicism. And Die Hard (yes, Die Hard ) wrestles with the impact of broken relationships on holiday joy. With Christmas on the Screen, journalist John A. Zukowski takes readers on an historic tour of Christmas films and changing American values to ask the question, "What does Christmas mean to us?"
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1. What Is a Christmas Movie?
- 2. The Birth Narrative of Jesus on Film
- 3. How A Christmas Carol Shaped the Christmas Movie Genre
- 4. Scroogelike Characters
- 5. The First Wave
- 6. George Bailey as a Modern-Day Job
- 7. The Christmas Film at Its Most Probing
- 8. Rankin-Bass and the Second Wave
- 9. Rankin and Bass
- 10. The Third Wave
- 11. Christmas and the Family under Siege
- 12. I’m Dreaming of a Dark Christmas
- 13. The Minority Report
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Notes
- Back Cover