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University of Nebraska at Omaha

2019

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A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, John C. Lyden Nov 2019

A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), directed by Marielle Heller.

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A Hidden Life, Sherry Coman Oct 2019

A Hidden Life, Sherry Coman

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of A Hidden Life (2019), directed by Terrence Malick.

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Corpus Christi, Sherry Coman Oct 2019

Corpus Christi, Sherry Coman

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Corpus Christi (2019), directed by Jan Komasa.

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Fatih Akin's Cinema And The New Sound Of Europe, Seda Öz Oct 2019

Fatih Akin's Cinema And The New Sound Of Europe, Seda Öz

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Berna Gueneli's Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019).

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Muslim Women In French Cinema: Voices Of Maghrebi Migrants In France, Shreya Parikh Oct 2019

Muslim Women In French Cinema: Voices Of Maghrebi Migrants In France, Shreya Parikh

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp's Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015).

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Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences And Entrepreneurs In Twentieth Century Urban Tanzania, Katie Young Oct 2019

Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences And Entrepreneurs In Twentieth Century Urban Tanzania, Katie Young

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Laura Fair's Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth Century Urban Tanzania.

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Martin Scorsese’S Divine Comedy: Movies And Religion, Michael Gibson Oct 2019

Martin Scorsese’S Divine Comedy: Movies And Religion, Michael Gibson

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Catherine O'Brien, Martin Scorsese’s Divine Comedy: Movies and Religion, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

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Religion And Film: Cinema And The Re-Creation Of The World (2nd Edition), Joel Mayward Oct 2019

Religion And Film: Cinema And The Re-Creation Of The World (2nd Edition), Joel Mayward

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of S. Brent Plate's Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-creation of the World, 2nd Edition (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017).

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Biblical Coens: Can We Laugh Now?, Richard G. Walsh Oct 2019

Biblical Coens: Can We Laugh Now?, Richard G. Walsh

Journal of Religion & Film

A review of Coen criticism, specifically attending to Elijah Siegler’s recent, significant collection of essays, indicates that Coen brothers’ films frame characters in harsh, amoral worlds. This aesthetic “framing” is similar not only to Camus’ analysis of the absurd, but also to the “feel” of some biblical narratives. Where Camus urges one to move beyond the absurd to absurd creation and biblical narratives press on to faith—at least, in most religious readings of them—the Coens laugh. A selective overview of the use of bibles in Coen brothers’ films demonstrates that the Coens’ biblical hermeneutic is risible. Their films frame bibles …

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Between Idealization Of A Martyr And Critic Of A Society: Analysis Of Axel Corti’S "Der Fall Jägerstätter", Jakub Gortat Oct 2019

Between Idealization Of A Martyr And Critic Of A Society: Analysis Of Axel Corti’S "Der Fall Jägerstätter", Jakub Gortat

Journal of Religion & Film

The new film approach to the figure of Franz Jägerstätter by Terrence Mallick in 2019 is an occasion to take a critical look at the first movie about the Catholic martyr that was made by the Austrian director Axel Corti in 1971. Although the movie turned out be to a huge success and until now is viewed as one of the turning points in coming to terms with the Nazi past in the Austrian film history, it idealizes, against the director’s intentions, the protagonist and preserves some of the characteristic elements of the history discourse of the times it was …

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Religion And Culture In Inherit The Wind, Zachary Sheldon Oct 2019

Religion And Culture In Inherit The Wind, Zachary Sheldon

Journal of Religion & Film

Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind (1960) has long been considered a classic for its indictment of McCarthyism as allegorized in a dramatic treatment of the Scopes Monkey Trial. But for all its political messaging, the film is also patently up front in its treatment of religious perspectives on culture. The presence of such material may be read allegorically but may also be read in connection with the period of the film’s production, as a statement piece on religious perspectives of media such as film. This article examines the religious messaging in Inherit the Wind in conjunction with religious perspectives of …

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Chapter 8: Paul Ramsey's Christian Deontology, Bharat Ranganathan Sep 2019

Chapter 8: Paul Ramsey's Christian Deontology, Bharat Ranganathan

Religion Faculty Publications

Commonsense tells us something about what Christian ethics may look like. For Christians, certain things are fixed, for example, about God (Gen. 1.1; Ps. 18.30; Ps. 50.6; Ps. 116.5; Jn. 1.5), the Fall (Gen. 3), and Christ’s life, death (Matt. 27.32–56), and resurrection (Matt. 28.1–10). Moreover, in his social teaching, Christ commands: “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the …

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Normative Dimensions In Christian Ethics, Bharat Ranganathan Sep 2019

Normative Dimensions In Christian Ethics, Bharat Ranganathan

Religion Faculty Publications

The contributors to this volume are motivated by two concerns. First, we want to clarify the relationship between religious ethics and Christian ethics. Second, we want to specify the contributions that Christian ethics makes to religious ethics. Apart from this Introduction, however, our respective contributions are not methodological ones. Some of us directly address these concerns. For others, these concerns are part of the intellectual landscape that informs our implicit background assumptions. But for all of us, our primary aim is to show, rather than say, what normative Christian ethics is and why it matters for contemporary religious ethics.

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Blinded By The Light, Amir Hussain Aug 2019

Blinded By The Light, Amir Hussain

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Blinded by the Light (2019) directed by Gurinder Chadha.

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Seeing Like The Buddha: Enlightenment Through Film, Skyler Osburn Apr 2019

Seeing Like The Buddha: Enlightenment Through Film, Skyler Osburn

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Francisca Cho's Seeing Like the Buddha: Enlightenment through Film.

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Of God, Humanity, And The World: Reflections On "The Truman Show", Robert S. Gall Apr 2019

Of God, Humanity, And The World: Reflections On "The Truman Show", Robert S. Gall

Journal of Religion & Film

Popular analysis of The Truman Show generally has focused on the comments the movie is making about our media culture and corporate influence in our lives. However, as the names of the lead characters (Truman, Christof) suggest, there is more to the movie than a critique of corporate media culture. With echoes of stories of the Garden of Eden, the Book of Job, and promises of heaven, the movie raises interesting and troubling questions about the nature of God and his relation to humanity in the Western tradition. With echoes of Descartes’ “evil genius” and how we come to know …

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Touched By Grace? A Look At Grace In Bergman's Winter Light And Martin Luther's Writings, Kjartan Leer-Salvesen Apr 2019

Touched By Grace? A Look At Grace In Bergman's Winter Light And Martin Luther's Writings, Kjartan Leer-Salvesen

Journal of Religion & Film

Ingmar Bergman holds a prominent place in the lineup of directors who have used cinema to investigate the meaning of life in a godless world. The so-called “Trilogy of God’s Silence” is often identified as the place where Bergman struggled most profoundly with core themes from the Christian faith. In Winter Light, he explores the topic of doubt, devastatingly, through a minister’s religious and existential crisis. This article, however, proposes that Martin Luther’s theology may provide resources for reappraising Bergman’s canonical film.

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Who Is Like God? The Deer Hunter As Angelic Allegory, Nicholas J. Schaser Apr 2019

Who Is Like God? The Deer Hunter As Angelic Allegory, Nicholas J. Schaser

Journal of Religion & Film

Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter utilizes Christian contexts and biblical motifs in order to present an allegory in which Michael (Robert De Niro) represents an angelic being. While Michael displays powers that parallel those of biblical angels, his lack of religious reverence and divine self-perception lead to a metaphorical fall in Vietnam. Michael’s friend Nick (Christopher Walken) is also an allegorical symbol for imperiled humanity in need of salvation. When Michael is unable to rescue Nick from a Russian roulette table in Saigon, Cimino’s film emerges as a theological statement about the problem of human violence and the necessity for …

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The Farewell, John C. Lyden Jan 2019

The Farewell, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of The Farewell (2019) directed by Lulu Wang.

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Lapü, John C. Lyden Jan 2019

Lapü, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Lapü (2019), directed by Juan Pablo Polanco and César Alejandro Jaimes.

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Dolce Fine Giornata, John C. Lyden Jan 2019

Dolce Fine Giornata, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Dolce Fine Giornata (2019) directed by Jacek Borcuch.

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Divine Love, John C. Lyden Jan 2019

Divine Love, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Divine Love (2019) directed by Gabriel Mascaro.

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Sister Aimee, John C. Lyden Jan 2019

Sister Aimee, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Sister Aimee (2019), directed by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann.

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Them That Follow, John C. Lyden Jan 2019

Them That Follow, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Them That Follow (2019) directed by Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage.

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Hala, John C. Lyden Jan 2019

Hala, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Hala (2019), directed by Minhal Baig.

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Abe, John C. Lyden Jan 2019

Abe, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Abe (2019) directed by Fernando Grostein Andrade.

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Hail Satan?, John C. Lyden Jan 2019

Hail Satan?, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Hail Satan? (2019) directed by Penny Lane.

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Markie In Milwaukee, William L. Blizek Jan 2019

Markie In Milwaukee, William L. Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Markie in Milwaukee (2019) directed by Matt Kliegman.

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Report From The 2019 Slamdance Film Festival, William L. Blizek Jan 2019

Report From The 2019 Slamdance Film Festival, William L. Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

This is the Introduction to the 2019 Slamdance Film Festival.

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