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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
"I Do Feel The Fire!": The Transformations Of Prison-Based Black Male Converts To Islam In South Central, Malcolm X, And Oz, Kameron J. Copeland
"I Do Feel The Fire!": The Transformations Of Prison-Based Black Male Converts To Islam In South Central, Malcolm X, And Oz, Kameron J. Copeland
Journal of Religion & Film
Historically, imprisoned Black male converts to Islam have been known for their narratives of redemption and struggles for religious freedom behind bars. While Islam possesses a strong visible presence throughout predominately Black areas of inner cities, it has become a natural feature of Black popular culture in mediums such as hip-hop, film, and literature. By the 1990s, the portrayal of Islamic conversions yielding Malcolm X-style transformations among young Black men, who formerly embodied self-destructiveness, were visible in films featuring Black male protagonists. The prison-based transformations typically involved highly influential Black Muslim leaders improving the social conditions of the inmate, the …
I Dream In Another Language, John C. Lyden
I Dream In Another Language, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of I Dream in Another Language (2017), directed by Ernesto Contreras.
The Wound, John C. Lyden
The Wound, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of The Wound (2016), directed by John Trengove.
Indigenous Helpers And Renegade Invaders: Ambivalent Characters In Biblical And Cinematic Conquest Narratives, L. Daniel Hawk
Indigenous Helpers And Renegade Invaders: Ambivalent Characters In Biblical And Cinematic Conquest Narratives, L. Daniel Hawk
Journal of Religion & Film
This article compares the role of ambiguous character types in the national narratives of biblical Israel and modern America, two nations that ground their identities in myths of conquest. The types embody the tensions and ambivalence conquest myths generate by combining the invader/indigenous binary in complementary ways. The Indigenous Helper assists the invaders and signifies the land’s acquiescence to conquest. The Renegade Invader identifies with the indigenous peoples and manifests anxiety about the threat of indigenous difference. A discussion of these types in the book of Joshua, through the stories of Rahab and Achan, establishes a point of reference by …
The Patriarch (Mahana), Ken Derry
The Patriarch (Mahana), Ken Derry
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of The Patriarch (2016), directed by Lee Tamahori.
Documentary As Exorcism: Resisting The Bewitchment Of Colonial Christianity, Michael Broyles
Documentary As Exorcism: Resisting The Bewitchment Of Colonial Christianity, Michael Broyles
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Documentary as Exorcism: Resisting the Bewitchment of Colonial Christianity by Robert Beckford.
Cloud Atlas’ Queer Tiki Kitsch: Polynesians, Settler Colonialism, And Sci-Fi Film, Gabriel S. Estrada
Cloud Atlas’ Queer Tiki Kitsch: Polynesians, Settler Colonialism, And Sci-Fi Film, Gabriel S. Estrada
Journal of Religion & Film
Polynesian theories of film reception, visual sovereignty, feminisms, and worldview offer critical insights into The Wachowskis' and Tykwer's 2012 film Cloud Atlas. From Indigenous and Native feminist film perspectives, Cloud Atlas offers a sci-fi future deeply entrenched in the queer tiki kitsch of settler colonialism as situated within a comparative context of other queer Indigenous film. As an example of heteropatriarchal settler colonialism, the Cloud Atlas plot supports the heterosexual triumphs of cross-racial couples and sublimates the possibilities of transgender reincarnation. Although Cloud Atlas attempts to critique Christian slavery and defend a secular abolitionist stance in the 1848 South Pacific, …
Uno Native Film Festival, Brady Desanti, Michele M. Desmarais, Beth R. Ritter
Uno Native Film Festival, Brady Desanti, Michele M. Desmarais, Beth R. Ritter
Journal of Religion & Film
This is the first year for the University of Nebraska at Omaha Native Film Festival. The Festival was presented Nov. 1-3, 2013, by the Native American Studies Program of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Vision Maker Media. In addition to the movies reviewed below, the Festival included a program of children/family films, a program of short films, an acting workshop with Chaske Spencer (Lakota Sioux), and a workshop on how to use visual media in the classroom presented by Vision Maker Media. Vision Maker Media is a non-profit organization that shares Native stories with the world by advancing …
The Butler, Carol Miles
The Butler, Carol Miles
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of The Butler, directed by Lee Daniels.
Chasing Shakespeare, Brady Desanti
Chasing Shakespeare, Brady Desanti
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Chasing Shakespeare (2013), directed by Norry Niven.
There Will Come A Day, Dereck Daschke
There Will Come A Day, Dereck Daschke
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of There Will Come a Day (2013) directed by Giorgio Diritti.
God Loves Uganda, John C. Lyden
God Loves Uganda, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of God Loves Uganda (2013) directed by Roger Ross Williams.
Whale Rider: The Re-Enactment Of Myth And The Empowerment Of Women, Kevin V. Dodd
Whale Rider: The Re-Enactment Of Myth And The Empowerment Of Women, Kevin V. Dodd
Journal of Religion & Film
Whale Rider represents a particular type of mythic film that includes within it references to an ancient sacred story and is itself a contemporary recapitulation of it. The movie also belongs to a further subcategory of mythic cinema, using the double citation of the myth—in its original form and its re-enactment—to critique the subordinate position of women to men in the narrated world. To do this, the myth is extended beyond its traditional scope and context. After looking at how the movie embeds the story and recapitulates it, this paper examines the film’s reception. To consider the variety of positions …