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Product Description: Contributors from richly diverse backgrounds explore a wide range of current issues concerning the interrelationship of religion and film.

Product Description: Takes fifteen classic American films and analyzes them for their religious meaning and symbolism.

Product Description: This carefully edited collection of essays explores, in greater diversity and depth than has been attempted before, the relationship between film and religion. Combining perspectives from traditional film criticism and from religious studies, Religion in Film asserts that it is no longer possible to view films simply in terms of their moral impact, nor is it reasonable to limit religious meaning only to those films that make and explicit appeal to religious elements...read more

Focusing on works by Hawthorne, Melville, Faulkner, and Vonnegut, the author probes the development and forms of American apocalyptic fiction