Download e-book for iPad: Film & Religion: An Introduction by Robert Torry,Paul V.M. Flesher

How major-release motion pictures use faith to inform tales and bring messages concentrating on American major-release motion pictures considering that international warfare II, the authors express how movies use non secular imagery, characters, and symbolism from basically Christian, but additionally, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Islamic traditions. excellent for lecture room use, each one bankruptcy analyzes major contextual matters during the lens of opt for movies.

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(FAQ). movie Noir FAQ celebrates and reappraises a few 2 hundred noir thrillers representing twenty years of Hollywood's Golden Age. Noir pulls us just about brutal law enforcement officials and scheming dames, determined heist males and hardboiled deepest eyes, and the unfortunate blameless electorate that get of their method. those are interesting videos with difficult men in trench coats and scorching tomatoes in form-fitting robes.

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This e-book demonstrates how the 2 adversaries of the chilly conflict, West Germany and East Germany, endeavored to create distinctive and specific German identities. of their undertaking to assert legitimacy, the German cinematic illustration of the yank West grew to become an enormous cultural weapon of mass dissemination throughout the chilly conflict.

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Movie feedback, the chilly warfare, and the Blacklist examines the long term reception of a number of key American movies published throughout the postwar interval, targeting the 2 major serious lenses utilized in the translation of those motion pictures: propaganda and allegory. Produced according to the hearings held by means of the home Committee on Un-American actions (HUAC) that led to the Hollywood blacklist, those movies’ ideological message and rhetorical effectiveness was once usually muddled via the inherent problems in dramatizing villains outlined by way of their recommendations and trust platforms instead of their activities.