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Arab Americans In Film: From Hollywood And Egyptian Stereotypes To Self-Representation, Danielle Haque Oct 2021

Arab Americans In Film: From Hollywood And Egyptian Stereotypes To Self-Representation, Danielle Haque

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Waleed Mahdi, Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation (Syracuse University Press, 2020).


Medieval Saints And Modern Screens: Divine Visions As Cinematic Experience, Stephen Okey Oct 2021

Medieval Saints And Modern Screens: Divine Visions As Cinematic Experience, Stephen Okey

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Alicia Spencer-Hall, Medieval Saints and Modern Screens: Divine Visions as Cinematic Experience (Amsterdam University Press, 2018).


Haneke Avec Foucault: The White Ribbon, Religion, And Violence, Bradley L. Herling Sep 2021

Haneke Avec Foucault: The White Ribbon, Religion, And Violence, Bradley L. Herling

Journal of Religion & Film

This article utilizes Michel Foucault's characterization of the Christian pastorate to examine The White Ribbon (2009), directed by Michael Haneke. Foucault's framework assists us in inspecting the nature of the Protestant community depicted in the film, its systems of discipline, repression, and control, and the bond between these systems and the violence that erupts as the plot unfolds. Reading Haneke avec Foucault thus sheds light on the broader problem of "religious violence," while also drawing out the sometimes submerged but skillful interpretation of religion proposed by these two auteurs.


A Black Rift Begins To Yawn, Brady Desanti Apr 2021

A Black Rift Begins To Yawn, Brady Desanti

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of A Black Rift Begins to Yawn (2021), directed by Matthew Wade.


In France, Michelle Is A Man's Name, John Lyden Apr 2021

In France, Michelle Is A Man's Name, John Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a review of the short film, In France, Michelle is a Man's Name (2021), directed by Em Weinstein.


The Length Of Day, John C. Lyden Apr 2021

The Length Of Day, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a review of the short film, The Length of Day (2021), directed by Laura Conway.


Holy Frit, Michele M. Desmarais Apr 2021

Holy Frit, Michele M. Desmarais

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Holy Frit (2021), directed by Justin Monroe.


Every Day's Like This, John C. Lyden Apr 2021

Every Day's Like This, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a review of the short film, Every Day's Like This (2021), directed by Lev Lewis.


Islands, John C. Lyden Apr 2021

Islands, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Islands (2021), directed by Martin Edralin.


Taipei Suicide Story, John C. Lyden Apr 2021

Taipei Suicide Story, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Taipei Suicide Story (2021), directed by KEFF.


Women Is Losers, John C. Lyden Apr 2021

Women Is Losers, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Women Is Losers (2021), directed by Lissette Feliciano.


The Return: Life After Isis, John C. Lyden Apr 2021

The Return: Life After Isis, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of The Return: Life After ISIS (2021), directed by Alba Sotorra Clua.


Who We Are: A Chronicle Of Racism In America, John C. Lyden Apr 2021

Who We Are: A Chronicle Of Racism In America, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America (2021), directed by Emily Kunstler.


“He Who Laughs Last!” Terrorists, Nihilists, And Jokers, William S. Chavez, Luke Mccracken Mar 2021

“He Who Laughs Last!” Terrorists, Nihilists, And Jokers, William S. Chavez, Luke Mccracken

Journal of Religion & Film

Since his debut in 1940, the Joker, famed adversary of the Batman, continues to permeate the American cultural mediascape not merely as an object of consumption but as an ongoing production of popular imagination. Joker mythmakers post-1986 have reimagined the character not as superhuman but as “depressingly ordinary,” inspiring audiences both to empathize with his existential plight and to fear his terroristic violence as an increasingly compelling model of reactionary resistance to institutionality. This article examines the recent history of modern terrorism in conjunction with the “pathological nihilism” diagnosed by Nietzsche in order to elucidate the stakes and implications of …


The Witch, Paul O'Connor Mar 2021

The Witch, Paul O'Connor

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Brandon Grafius, The Witch (Devil’s Advocates) (Liverpool, UK: Auteur Publishing in partnership with Liverpool University Press, 2020).


Stanley Kubrick, Jewish Filmmaker: A Review Essay, Michael Gibson Mar 2021

Stanley Kubrick, Jewish Filmmaker: A Review Essay, Michael Gibson

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a review of two books: Nathan Abrams, Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018), and David Mikics, Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020).


A Long, Long Way: Hollywood's Unfinished Journey From Racism To Reconciliation, Adele Reinhartz Mar 2021

A Long, Long Way: Hollywood's Unfinished Journey From Racism To Reconciliation, Adele Reinhartz

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Greg Garrett, A Long, Long Way: Hollywood's Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation (Oxford University Press, 2020).


By And For Jewish Women Only: The Musical Film "The Heart That Sings", Celia E. Rothenberg Mar 2021

By And For Jewish Women Only: The Musical Film "The Heart That Sings", Celia E. Rothenberg

Journal of Religion & Film

The musical film, “The Heart that Sings” (2011), written and directed by Robin Saex Garbose, is part of a genre of films created by and for Orthodox Jewish women. Heart provides a case study that illustrates the depth and breadth of Lubavitch Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson’s (1902-1994) influence on Jews and Jewish life well beyond his own community members. Schneerson’s outreach work via his shlichim, or emissaries, to unobservant Jews is well-recognized. The extent and nuance of his influence on a broad cross-section of Jews, however, has yet to be fully traced. Heart tells its viewers that Jewish women …


Christian Realism And The State As Idol: Feminist And Postcolonial Critique And Christian Realist Theology In An Interdependent World, Laura E. Alexander Mar 2021

Christian Realism And The State As Idol: Feminist And Postcolonial Critique And Christian Realist Theology In An Interdependent World, Laura E. Alexander

Religion Faculty Publications

At a time of outspoken nationalism, Christian realism accurately diagnoses idolatry of the state as a political and theological problem. The power of sovereign states protects self-determination but can allow states to unjustly oppress members of minority groups. From a Christian realist perspective, states’ power relative to other institutions can encourage religious idolatry, with citizens devoting their ultimate loyalty to a state. To mitigate this problem, Christian realism argues for recognition of states’ limitations. However, Christian realism itself remains beholden to a notion of states’ sovereign agency rooted in an incomplete picture of human nature. Recent feminist and postcolonial scholarship …


Like The Ones I Used To Know, Rubina Ramji Feb 2021

Like The Ones I Used To Know, Rubina Ramji

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a review of the short film, Like the Ones I Used to Know [Le Grand Claques] (2020), directed by Annie St-Pierre.


You Wouldn't Understand, Rubina Ramji Feb 2021

You Wouldn't Understand, Rubina Ramji

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a review of the short film, You Wouldn't Understand (2021), directed by Trish Hernatiaux.


In The Earth, Rubina Ramji Feb 2021

In The Earth, Rubina Ramji

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a review of In the Earth (2021), directed by Ben Wheatley.


Human Factors, Rubina Ramji Feb 2021

Human Factors, Rubina Ramji

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a review of Human Factors (2021), directed by Ronny Trocker.


Sabaya, Jodi Mcdavid Feb 2021

Sabaya, Jodi Mcdavid

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Sabaya (2021), directed by Hogir Hirori.


Sundance 2021 Introduction, John C. Lyden Feb 2021

Sundance 2021 Introduction, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

Introduction to the Sundance Film Festival 2021


Flee, John C. Lyden Feb 2021

Flee, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Flee (2021), directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen.


Mass, John C. Lyden Feb 2021

Mass, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Mass (2021), directed by Fran Kranz.


Together Together, John C. Lyden Feb 2021

Together Together, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Together Together (2021), directed by Nicole Beckwith.


Rebel Hearts, John C. Lyden Feb 2021

Rebel Hearts, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Rebel Hearts (2021), directed by Pedro Kos.


Strawberry Mansion, John C. Lyden Feb 2021

Strawberry Mansion, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Strawberry Mansion (2021), directed by Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley.