Christmas on the Screen
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Christmas on the Screen

Reviewing the Evolution of American Spirituality

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eBook - ePub

Christmas on the Screen

Reviewing the Evolution of American Spirituality

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

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. 1. What Is a Christmas Movie?
  7. 2. The Birth Narrative of Jesus on Film
  8. 3. How A Christmas Carol Shaped the Christmas Movie Genre
  9. 4. Scroogelike Characters
  10. 5. The First Wave
  11. 6. George Bailey as a Modern-Day Job
  12. 7. The Christmas Film at Its Most Probing
  13. 8. Rankin-Bass and the Second Wave
  14. 9. Rankin and Bass
  15. 10. The Third Wave
  16. 11. Christmas and the Family under Siege
  17. 12. I’m Dreaming of a Dark Christmas
  18. 13. The Minority Report
  19. Conclusion
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Appendix
  22. Notes
  23. Back Cover