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Cinema, Black Suffering, And Theodicy: Modern God, Terry Lindvall Apr 2024

Cinema, Black Suffering, And Theodicy: Modern God, Terry Lindvall

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Shayne Lee, Cinema, Black Suffering, and Theodicy: Modern God (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022).


Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, And The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Jessica Knippel Apr 2024

Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, And The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Jessica Knippel

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Jennifer Baldwin and Daniel Hodge White, eds., Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Ladham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022).


The Cinema Of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Matt Kingcroft Apr 2024

The Cinema Of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Matt Kingcroft

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Ethan Warren, The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha (Wallflower Press, 2023).


Animated Parables: A Pedagogy Of Seven Deadly Sins And A Few Virtues, Joel Mayward Apr 2024

Animated Parables: A Pedagogy Of Seven Deadly Sins And A Few Virtues, Joel Mayward

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Terry Lindvall, Animated Parables: A Pedagogy of Seven Deadly Sins and a Few Virtues (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2023).


The Exorcist Effect: Horror, Religion, And Demonic Belief, Sena Nurhan Duran Apr 2024

The Exorcist Effect: Horror, Religion, And Demonic Belief, Sena Nurhan Duran

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Joseph P. Laycock and Eric Harrelson, The Exorcist Effect: Horror, Religion, and Demonic Belief (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2023).


Radically Feminist Or Monstrously Feminine?: Witches And Goddesses In Guadagnino's Suspiria (2018), Lindsay Macumber Apr 2024

Radically Feminist Or Monstrously Feminine?: Witches And Goddesses In Guadagnino's Suspiria (2018), Lindsay Macumber

Journal of Religion & Film

Guadagnino’s 2018 remake of Suspiria explicitly and implicitly incorporates two connected myths, witchcraft and goddess centered matriarchal prehistory. The fact that each of these myths have been claimed by feminists in myriad ways may explain Guadagnino’s claim that Suspiria is a great feminist film that escapes the male gaze. In this article, I argue that Guadagnino’s representation of these myths lays bare their misogynistic origins and perpetuates, rather than subverts, patriarchal power structures.


Spiritual Cinema: Agel, Merleau-Ponty And The Cinematic Real, Patrick O'Connor Dr Apr 2024

Spiritual Cinema: Agel, Merleau-Ponty And The Cinematic Real, Patrick O'Connor Dr

Journal of Religion & Film

This article seeks to retrieve the work of Henri Agel, and his collaborator Amédée Ayfre, for our theoretical understanding of film-philosophy. I explore their distinctive contribution to thinking philosophically about film and assess the relative merits of their work for the phenomenology of film. While exceptionally valuable for religious and theological interpretations of film I proceed to argue that Agel and Ayfre’s work needs to be supplemented with the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s film-phenomenology to adequately express the temporal and motional nature of film. Merleau-Ponty’s work I contend while exceptionally valuable is brief and underdeveloped, and therefore does not fully …


Mary Magdalene On Film In Twenty-First Century: A Feminist Theological Critique, Mary Ann Beavis Apr 2024

Mary Magdalene On Film In Twenty-First Century: A Feminist Theological Critique, Mary Ann Beavis

Journal of Religion & Film

Since the turn of the millennium, several films (and one popular TV series) featuring Mary Magdalene as a significant character, or even as the central character, have been produced. A few, specifically Son of God (2104), The Chosen (2017-), and Mary Magdalene (2019), gained a wide audience through some combination of theatrical release, television, and streaming services. Unlike earlier productions that unfailingly portrayed her conventionally as a penitent prostitute, these and other, less well-known films of recent decades have departed from this traditional Magdalene. This is no doubt due, among other things, to the influence of feminist theology and biblical …


Eternal You, John C. Lyden Jan 2024

Eternal You, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Eternal You (2023), directed by Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck.


2024 Slamdance Film Festival Introduction, William L. Blizek Jan 2024

2024 Slamdance Film Festival Introduction, William L. Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

This is the introduction to our coverage of the 2024 Slamdance Film Festival.


Sundance Film Festival 2024 Introduction, John C. Lyden Jan 2024

Sundance Film Festival 2024 Introduction, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is the Introduction to our coverage of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.


Love Me, John C. Lyden Jan 2024

Love Me, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Love Me (2024), directed by Sam Zuchero and Andy Zuchero.


Sects, Lies, And Videotape: Debunking Deadly Tropes About Jews And Israel In Tv, Film And Media, Dereck Daschke Jan 2024

Sects, Lies, And Videotape: Debunking Deadly Tropes About Jews And Israel In Tv, Film And Media, Dereck Daschke

Journal of Religion & Film

The "Beyond Film" panel, "Sects, Lies, and Videotape: Debunking deadly tropes about Jews and Israel in TV, film and media" occurred at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. This is a summary of the presentation.


Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, Dereck Daschke Jan 2024

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, Dereck Daschke

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024), dir. Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui.


I Saw The Tv Glow, Dereck Daschke Jan 2024

I Saw The Tv Glow, Dereck Daschke

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of I Saw the TV Glow (2024), directed by Jane Schoenbrun.


Marungka Tjlatjunu (Dipped In Black), William L. Blizek, Monica Blizek Jan 2024

Marungka Tjlatjunu (Dipped In Black), William L. Blizek, Monica Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Marungka Tjlatjunu (Dipped in Black) (2023), directed by Matthew Thorne and Derik Lynch.


Nowhere Stream, Rachel L. Wagner Jan 2024

Nowhere Stream, Rachel L. Wagner

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Nowhere Stream (2023), directed by Luis Grane.


The Synanon Fix, Dereck Daschke Jan 2024

The Synanon Fix, Dereck Daschke

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of The Synanon Fix (2024), directed by Rory Kennedy.


Look Into My Eyes, Christopher R. Deacy Jan 2024

Look Into My Eyes, Christopher R. Deacy

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Look Into My Eyes (2023), directed by Lana Wilson.


The Looming, William L. Blizek Jan 2024

The Looming, William L. Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of The Looming (2023), directed by Masha Ko.


Winding Path, Monica Blizek Jan 2024

Winding Path, Monica Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Winding Path (dêtetsi vo’i oninjakan) (2023), directed by Alexandra Lazarowich and Ross Kauffman.


Grace, William L. Blizek Jan 2024

Grace, William L. Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Grace (2023), directed by Natalie Jasmine Harris.


Lan's Garden, William L. Blizek Jan 2024

Lan's Garden, William L. Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Lan's Garden (2023), directed by Jennifer Ru Zhou.


Ekbeh, Monica Blizek Jan 2024

Ekbeh, Monica Blizek

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Ekbeh (2023), directed by Mariah Hernadez-Fitch.


Layla, Christopher R. Deacy Jan 2024

Layla, Christopher R. Deacy

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Layla (2024), directed by Amrou Al-Kadhi.


In The Summers, Christopher R. Deacy Jan 2024

In The Summers, Christopher R. Deacy

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of In the Summers (2023), directed by Alessandra Lacorazza.


The Moogai, Dereck Daschke Jan 2024

The Moogai, Dereck Daschke

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of The Moogai (2024), directed by John Bell.


Kidnapping Inc., Christopher R. Deacy Jan 2024

Kidnapping Inc., Christopher R. Deacy

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Kidnapping Inc. (2024), directed by Bruno Mourral.


Good One, Christopher R. Deacy Jan 2024

Good One, Christopher R. Deacy

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Good One (2023), directed by India Donaldson.


Krazy House, Christopher R. Deacy Jan 2024

Krazy House, Christopher R. Deacy

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Krazy House (2023), directed by Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil.