Handbook of Contemporary Religion, Film, and Television /
The Handbook of Contemporary Religion, Film, and Television contains twenty-three chapters on a variety of religions and religious phenomena, focusing on how they are depicted in film and television. Methodological considerations and academic debates concerning the effectiveness of popular cultural...
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |t List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Contemporary Religion, Film, and Television: Media, Messages, and Methodology -- Venetia Laura Delano Robertson and Carole M. Cusack -- Part 1: Drama, Romance, and Comedy -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1 Making My Toys, Breaking My Toys: Theorising and Theory Building between Two Projects -- David Feltmate -- 2 "Hosti Gezeyn In Dayne Lebn?": Representation of Judaism in Contemporary Television and Film -- Eric Michael Mazur -- 3 An Ecumenical Matter: the Portrayal of Clergy on Contemporary British Television -- Andrew Crome -- 4 Pastors, Migrants and Mad Men: Religion in Contemporary Nordic Film and Television -- Sofia Sjö -- 5 Cosmopolitan Complexities in Contemporary Inter-faith Malaysian Films -- Humairah Zainal -- 6 World Drama Mission: Re-missioning African Diasporas through Evangelical Films -- Elizabeth Olayiwola -- Part 2: Historical and Political Portrayals -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 7 From Gold Plates to Silver Screen: Capturing the Ancient World of the Book of Mormon on Film -- Elisha McIntyre -- 8 Audio-Visual Portrayals of Jehovah's Witnesses -- George D. Chryssides -- 9 Indigenous Re(presentation) in Film and Television -- Ulrike Wiethaus -- 10 Black Orpheus and the Portrayal of African-Derived Religions -- Bettina E. Schmidt -- 11 Indigenous Religion on Film: from Demonisation to Decolonisation in Sápmi -- Cato Christensen and Torjer A. Olsen -- 12 Filming Confucius: a "New" Chinese Nation through "Old" Chinese Values -- Stefania Travagnin -- 13 A Holy Dullness: Tarkovsky, Suture, and the Numinous -- Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow -- Part 3: Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction -- Introduction to Part 3 -- 14 Esotericism and Occulture in the Cinema of the Weimar Republic -- Francisco Santos Silva -- 15 "In the Halls of Valhalla, Where the Brave May Live Forever": Depictions of Pre-Christian Religion in the Cinematic Adaptations of Beowulf -- Ethan Doyle White -- 16 Must Be the Season of the Witch: Witchcraft and Popular Feminism on the Screen -- Venetia Laura Delano Robertson -- 17 Cosmic Kidnapping: Alien Abduction Narratives, Popular (Oc)culture and the Folkloresque -- Erik A.W. Östling -- 18 Religion in Star Trek: from Killing God to the Klingon Gothic -- Benjamin E. Zeller -- Part 4: Documentary, Reality Television, and the Media -- Introduction to Part 4 -- 19 The Supernatural Is Not Religion: Okaruto TV Programs in Japan -- Ioannis Gaitanidis -- 20 Tidying Up with Marie Kondo: Shinto Household Kami and Protestant Consumerist Animism -- Zoe Alderton -- 21 "A Theatrical Worship Experience": the Hillsong Film, Evangelism Techniques, and Growth Theology -- Mairead Shanahan -- 22 Scientology on Film: Documentary, Reconstruction, Fiction -- Carole M. Cusack -- 23 Representing Authenticity: Exploring Outlier Groups through Documentary Filmmaking -- Raymond Radford -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a The Handbook of Contemporary Religion, Film, and Television contains twenty-three chapters on a variety of religions and religious phenomena, focusing on how they are depicted in film and television. Methodological considerations and academic debates concerning the effectiveness of popular cultural media in communicating information about religions and spiritualities are examined, and the films and television series are situated in political, social, geographical, and historical contexts. The authors are committed to open, serious, and scholarly work that accurately reflects the affective, entertainment, and imaginative dimensions of visual pop culture forms, while providing accurate and up to date information about the religious groups and trends they research. | ||
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| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Religion and the Arts. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Religious Studies. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Cusack, Carole M., |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Robertson, Venetia Laura Delano, |e editor. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |t Handbook of Contemporary Religion, Film, and Television. |d Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026. |z 9789004727588 |
| 830 | 0 | |a Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion ; |v 24. | |
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