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2019

Journal of Religion & Film

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

A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, John C. Lyden

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

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The Lighthouse, Kyle Derkson Oct 2019

The Lighthouse, Kyle Derkson

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This is a film review of The Lighthouse (2019), directed by Robert Eggers.

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Parasite, Sarina Annis Oct 2019

Parasite, Sarina Annis

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This is a film review of Parasite (2019), directed by Bong Joon Ho.

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Kuessipan, Sherry Coman Oct 2019

Kuessipan, Sherry Coman

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This is a film review of Kuessipan (2019), directed by Myriam Verreault.

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A Hidden Life, Sherry Coman Oct 2019

A Hidden Life, Sherry Coman

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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

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

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Finding Fīlmfārsī: Reevaluations Of Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema, William E. B. Sherman Oct 2019

Finding Fīlmfārsī: Reevaluations Of Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema, William E. B. Sherman

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This article reviews two books: Pedram Partovi's Popular Iranian Cinema before the Revolution: Family and Nation in Filmfārsī, and Golbar Rekabtalaei, Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Teaching Hierophany Through Film And Film Through Hierophany, Marc Yamada Oct 2019

Teaching Hierophany Through Film And Film Through Hierophany, Marc Yamada

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Courses that deal with cinematic representations of the sacred often focus on the experiences of characters in the film, relegating the viewer to the position of a passive witness to the reorienting effects of cinematic hierophanies. These types of courses do not take full advantage of the power of the cinematic medium to transform the way viewers understand the ontological and temporal structures they use to anchor themselves in the “profane” world. Based on my undergraduate course Cinema and the Sacred, this article outlines ways to allow students to experience the full transformative effects of cinema. As is the case …

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Temporal And Topological: Two Ways Of Living Israel/Palestine, Rocco Giansante Oct 2019

Temporal And Topological: Two Ways Of Living Israel/Palestine, Rocco Giansante

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Elia Suleiman and Amos Gitai are two Israeli filmmakers, Palestinian and Jewish respectively. Gitai’s first film, House (1980), was censored by Israeli Television—the producers of the film—due to its sympathetic portrayal of Palestinians. Elia Suleiman’s debut film, Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996), was criticized at the Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia for a sequence showing an Israeli flag and Suleiman himself was accused of being a Zionist collaborator. By comparing the ways in which these two films deal with the political and social implications of the Israel-Palestine conflict, this article highlights two distinct methods of relating to facts on the …

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

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

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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

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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

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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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Never Look Away (Werk Ohne Autor), Frederick Ruf Aug 2019

Never Look Away (Werk Ohne Autor), Frederick Ruf

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This is a film review of Never Look Away (Werk ohne Autor) (2018) directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

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Blinded By The Light, Amir Hussain Aug 2019

Blinded By The Light, Amir Hussain

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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

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

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Groundhog Day At 25: Conflict And Inspiration At The Tipping Point Of Seasonal Genres, Wayne Glausser Apr 2019

Groundhog Day At 25: Conflict And Inspiration At The Tipping Point Of Seasonal Genres, Wayne Glausser

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Groundhog Day has been recognized by leaders of many religions as an inspirational film. It tracks all the responses a person might have to the suspicion that the world has no God, design, or inherent purpose: first, transgressive self-indulgence; next, acedic depression; and finally, redemptive benevolence. During the filming, however, a conflict in vision between Harold Ramis and Bill Murray tore apart their friendship. Ramis wanted a romantic comedy founded on evolution from arrogance to selfless benevolence; Murray preferred a darker satire. Although the finished film reflects Ramis's vision of comedy--the genre of spring--Murray's satirical gestures leave traces of winter …

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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

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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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The Representation Of Turkish Women In James Bond Films, Kerem Bayraktaroglu Dr Apr 2019

The Representation Of Turkish Women In James Bond Films, Kerem Bayraktaroglu Dr

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While there is ample academic material exploring the cinematic role of James Bond and the “Bond Girl”, this paper chooses to focus on and examine the significance of Turkish female representations in three films set in Istanbul: From Russia with Love (Terence Young, 1963), The World Is Not Enough (Michael Apted, 1999) and Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012). The varying representations in these films are scrutinized to investigate how they distinguish Turkish female characters and the connotations of Istanbul over time and whether this depiction is connected with Turkey’s changing position vis-à-vis the Western world. These questions thus have historical implications …

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Gaza, William L. Blizek Feb 2019

Gaza, William L. Blizek

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This is a film review of Gaza (2019) directed by Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell.

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The Farewell, John C. Lyden Jan 2019

The Farewell, John C. Lyden

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

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Dolce Fine Giornata, John C. Lyden Jan 2019

Dolce Fine Giornata, John C. Lyden

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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

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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

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

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Hala, John C. Lyden Jan 2019

Hala, John C. Lyden

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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

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

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