Devotional Fanscapes
Title | Devotional Fanscapes PDF eBook |
Author | Shalini Kakar |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2023-01-09 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1793646287 |
Devotional Fanscapes examines the practices and materiality of fans who worship film stars as divine figures. This book is an analysis of visual culture and star temples that bring cinema, fandom, religion, and politics into undocumented negotiations in national and transnational contexts.
Latter-day Screens
Title | Latter-day Screens PDF eBook |
Author | Brenda R. Weber |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2019-09-13 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1478005297 |
From Sister Wives and Big Love to The Book of Mormon on Broadway, Mormons and Mormonism are pervasive throughout American popular media. In Latter-day Screens, Brenda R. Weber argues that mediated Mormonism contests and reconfigures collective notions of gender, sexuality, race, spirituality, capitalism, justice, and individualism. Focusing on Mormonism as both a meme and an analytic, Weber analyzes a wide range of contemporary media produced by those within and those outside of the mainstream and fundamentalist Mormon churches, from reality television to feature films, from blogs to YouTube videos, and from novels to memoirs by people who struggle to find agency and personhood in the shadow of the church's teachings. The broad archive of mediated Mormonism contains socially conservative values, often expressed through neoliberal strategies tied to egalitarianism, meritocracy, and self-actualization, but it also offers a passionate voice of contrast on behalf of plurality and inclusion. In this, mediated Mormonism and the conversations on social justice that it fosters create the pathway toward an inclusive, feminist-friendly, and queer-positive future for a broader culture that uses Mormonism as a gauge to calibrate its own values.
Movies and Midrash
Title | Movies and Midrash PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy I. Zierler |
Publisher | Suny Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2018-01-02 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781438466149 |
Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue.
Why Harry Met Sally
Title | Why Harry Met Sally PDF eBook |
Author | Joshua Louis Moss |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2017-07-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1477312838 |
Explicating one of the most potent and recurring mass-culture fantasies, this book explores Jewish-Christian couplings across a century of popular American literature, theater, film, and television.
Haunted
Title | Haunted PDF eBook |
Author | Leo Braudy |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2016-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0300203802 |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Shaping Fear -- 2 Between Hope and Fear: Horror and Religion -- 3 Terror, Horror, and the Cult of Nature -- 4 Frankenstein, Robots, and Androids: Horror and the Manufactured Monster -- 5 The Detective's Reason -- 6 Jekyll and Hyde: The Monster from Within -- 7 Dracula and the Haunted Present -- 8 Horror in the Age of Visual Reproduction -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations
Steven Spielberg
Title | Steven Spielberg PDF eBook |
Author | Molly Haskell |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2017-01-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0300189826 |
A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented Everything about me is in my films, Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker, Molly Haskell explores the full range of Spielberg s works for the light they shine upon the man himself. Through such powerhouse hits as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Jurassic Park, and Indiana Jones, to lesser-known masterworks like A.I. and Empire of the Sun, to the haunting Schindler s List, Haskell shows how Spielberg s uniquely evocative filmmaking and story-telling reveal the many ways in which his life, work, and times are entwined. Organizing chapters around specific films, the distinguished critic discusses how Spielberg s childhood in non-Jewish suburbs, his parents traumatic divorce, his return to Judaism upon his son s birth, and other events echo in his work. She offers a brilliant portrait of the extraordinary director a fearful boy living through his imagination who grew into a man whose openness, generosity of spirit, and creativity have enchanted audiences for more than 40 years.
The Place of Help
Title | The Place of Help PDF eBook |
Author | Oswald Chambers |
Publisher | Our Daily Bread Publishing |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2015-10-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1627074414 |
What does God’s sacrificial redemption mean for you? What does it look like for the cross of Calvary to infuse every aspect of your life? In The Place of Help, Oswald Chambers offers his straightforward yet profound wisdom on topics of practical Christian living—topics such as fellowship, rest, and grief. These devotions come from Sunday morning sermons, lectures to theology students, and talks to World War I soldiers on active duty. The Place of Help can also speak to you, whatever your circumstances.