List of Contributors

List of Plates

Introduction

Clive Marsh

Gaye Ortiz

Part One

1 Film, Movies, Meanings

David Browne

2 Film and Theologies of Culture

Clive Marsh

3 The Uses of Film in Theology

David John Graham

Part Two

4 From Domination to Mutuality in The Piano and in the Gospel of Mark

David Rhoads

Sandra Roberts

5 The Drama of Salvation in George Stevens's Shane

Robert Banks

6 Edward Scissorhands: Christology from a Suburban Fairy-tale

Peter Malone

7 Redeeming Violence in the Films of Martin Scorsese

David John Graham

8 Liberation in Awakenings

Ian Maher

9 Jesus Christ Movie Star: The Depiction of Jesus in the Cinema

William R. Telford

10 The Terminator Movies: Hi-Tech Holiness and the Human Condition

Gaye Ortiz

Maggie Roux

11 Stuck in Time: Kairos, Chronos, and the Flesh in Groundhog Day

Robert Jewett

12 Moral Ambiguity and Contradiction in Dead Poets Society

Stephen Brie

David Torevell

13 Between Eden and Armageddon: Institutions, Individuals, and Identification in The Mission, The Name of the Rose, and Priest

Vaughan Roberts

14 The Spirituality of Shirley Valentine

Clive Marsh

15 Did You Say "Grace"?: Eating in Community in Babette's Feast

Clive Marsh

16 Optimism, Hope, and Feelgood Movies: The Capra Connection

Stephen Brown

Part Three

17 On Systematizing the Unsystematic: A Response

David Jasper

18 Theology Beyond the Modern and the Postmodern: A Future Agenda for Theology and Film

Clive Marsh

Gaye Ortiz

Annotated Bibliography

Index of Biblical References

Film Index

General Index