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On Sweat, Ava Prickman Oct 2026

On Sweat, Ava Prickman

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Red Clays & Combat Boots, Amelia Do Oct 2026

Red Clays & Combat Boots, Amelia Do

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Dear Ange, Kobe Kinney Oct 2026

Dear Ange, Kobe Kinney

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Your Funeral, Amanda Smith Oct 2026

Your Funeral, Amanda Smith

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


The Neighbor's Garden, Madeline Swicord Oct 2026

The Neighbor's Garden, Madeline Swicord

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Known You All My Life, Bethany N. Shifflett Oct 2026

Known You All My Life, Bethany N. Shifflett

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Caged, Alexander E. Hanley Oct 2026

Caged, Alexander E. Hanley

The Mercury

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The Proposal, Ella Beam Oct 2026

The Proposal, Ella Beam

The Mercury

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Gardeners, Beatrice Slevin-Trigo Oct 2026

Gardeners, Beatrice Slevin-Trigo

The Mercury

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Darlene Love: I Know Where I’Ve Been, Ken Derry Oct 2026

Darlene Love: I Know Where I’Ve Been, Ken Derry

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Darlene Love: I Know Where I’ve Been (2026), directed by Barry Avrich.


Ancestors, Sherry Coman Oct 2026

Ancestors, Sherry Coman

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Ancestors (2026), directed by David Turpin.


Closing Night, Sherry Coman Oct 2026

Closing Night, Sherry Coman

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Closing Night (2026), directed by Cody Fern.


Man In Motion: The Rick Hansen Story, Sherry Coman Oct 2026

Man In Motion: The Rick Hansen Story, Sherry Coman

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Man in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story (2026), directed by Adrian Buitenhuis.


Idda, Sherry Coman Oct 2026

Idda, Sherry Coman

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Idda (2026), directed by Irene Dionisio.


What Film Is Good For: On The Values Of Spectatorship, Pablo Alzola Oct 2026

What Film Is Good For: On The Values Of Spectatorship, Pablo Alzola

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Julian Hanich and Martin P. Rossouw, eds., What Film Is Good For: On the Values of Spectatorship (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023).


Hollywood And The Nazis On The Eve Of War: The Case Of The Mortal Storm, Rachel Gordan Oct 2026

Hollywood And The Nazis On The Eve Of War: The Case Of The Mortal Storm, Rachel Gordan

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Alexis Pogorelskin, Hollywood and the Nazis on the Eve of War: The Case of The Mortal Storm (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024).


Shoah: Bfi Film Classics, Matthew Page Oct 2026

Shoah: Bfi Film Classics, Matthew Page

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Sue Vice, Shoah: BFI Film Classics (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2026).


A Poetic History: Islamic And Japanese Parallels In Film, Joshua Polanski Oct 2026

A Poetic History: Islamic And Japanese Parallels In Film, Joshua Polanski

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of David Sander, A Poetic History: Islamic and Japanese Parallels in Film (Bloomsbury, 2026).


Cloud: Between Paris And Tehran: Kiarostami/Corbin/Lacan, Heba Arafa Oct 2026

Cloud: Between Paris And Tehran: Kiarostami/Corbin/Lacan, Heba Arafa

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Joan Copjec, Cloud: Between Paris and Tehran: Kiarostami/Corbin/Lacan (MIT Press, 2025).


Eternity, Leah R. Sisk Oct 2026

Eternity, Leah R. Sisk

Journal of Religion & Film

This film review of Eternity was developed from an essay on how the film demonstrates the nature of choice, including William James's notion of a leap of faith.  The original essay was submitted for an undergraduate Philosophy and Religion class on American Pragmatism at Western Carolina University.


Disclosure Day, Christian Wilken Oct 2026

Disclosure Day, Christian Wilken

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Disclosure Day (2026), directed by Steven Spielberg.


Nothing Is As It Should Be: Estrangement, Threshold-Crossings, And Cosmic Struggle In David Lynch’S Blue Velvet And Lost Highway, Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson Oct 2026

Nothing Is As It Should Be: Estrangement, Threshold-Crossings, And Cosmic Struggle In David Lynch’S Blue Velvet And Lost Highway, Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson

Journal of Religion & Film

This article examines estrangement as a structuring existential and aesthetic principle in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) and Lost Highway (1997). Through close, plot-attentive readings intended to remain accessible to readers unfamiliar with Lynch, it argues that the films stage three interlocking dynamics: becoming a stranger to oneself, the fracturing of the ‘ground’ of ordinary existence, and life as a cosmic struggle in which human agency is partial and contested. Paul Tillich’s The Courage to Be provides the main theological–philosophical lens, clarifying how anxiety, non-being and courage shape scenes of desire, violence and transformation. Film-theoretical work on thresholds and cinematic …


Unidentified, Candace Mixon Oct 2026

Unidentified, Candace Mixon

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Unidentified (2026), directed by Haifaa al-Mansour.


No Place For Us: The Scapegoat Mechanism In The Early Genealogy Of The Outlaw Road Movie, Luke Smith Oct 2026

No Place For Us: The Scapegoat Mechanism In The Early Genealogy Of The Outlaw Road Movie, Luke Smith

Journal of Religion & Film

This essay applies René Girard’s scapegoat mechanism to an early genealogy of the outlaw-couple-on-the-run narrative and of the outlaw road movie more broadly. Through readings of You Only Live Once (1937), They Live by Night (1948), Gun Crazy (1950), and Bonnie and Clyde (1967), it argues that scapegoating in these films operates as a process rather than a single final act: the outlaw couple is first marked and excluded from ordinary goods such as work, respectability, and domestic space, then publicly blamed as a cause of disorder, then amplified through mythmaking, circulation, and repetition until finally sacrificed in a closing …


Making Meaning: Free Will And The Meaning Of Life In Barbie, Bertha A. Manninen Ph.D. Oct 2026

Making Meaning: Free Will And The Meaning Of Life In Barbie, Bertha A. Manninen Ph.D.

Journal of Religion & Film

Greta Gerwig’s 2023 film Barbie highlights both the empowerment and drawbacks of one of Mattel’s most famous toys. Although Barbie’s feminist messages have taken center stage, the film also has several theological dimensions and touches upon what it means to live a meaningful life. I will argue that Barbie can be interpreted as a defense of the free will theodicy in response to both the logical and evidential versions of the problem of evil. One common challenge to the theodicy is that even granting that free will is a great good, it is not so good as to be worth …


Misread Before Being Known: Race, Religion, And Institutional Non-Inquiry In Abrogation, Franklin Livingston Oct 2026

Misread Before Being Known: Race, Religion, And Institutional Non-Inquiry In Abrogation, Franklin Livingston

Journal of Religion & Film

Institutions often arrive at certainty before they arrive at knowledge. This article names that mechanism institutional non-inquiry — the organizational habit through which visual and cultural assumptions substitute for direct verification, allowing identity classifications to solidify before the subject meaningfully enters the encounter. Unlike prejudice, racialization, or established theories of pre-reflexive social perception, institutional non-inquiry isolates the organizational encounter itself as the specific procedural moment at which collective interpretive habits make inquiry feel unnecessary. Examining Abrogation (2024), a micro-budget American independent feature following Daud Khan, a Brown Pakistani-American infectious disease specialist whose movement through evangelical, civic, and federal institutions repeatedly …


Moving On: Purgatorial Seriality And Unanswered Prayer In Lost’S “Ab Aeterno”, Christian Wilken Oct 2026

Moving On: Purgatorial Seriality And Unanswered Prayer In Lost’S “Ab Aeterno”, Christian Wilken

Journal of Religion & Film

“Ab Aeterno” (Lost, 6.09) distills the series’ religious logic with unusual explicitness by staging theodicy not as doctrine but as narrative procedure. This article argues that the episode converts Catholic sacramental form (confession, absolution, and penitential address) into a serial ethics of endurance in which closure is structurally deferred. Richard Alpert’s confession establishes a subject who seeks an authorized word that would stabilize suffering, yet the priest’s refusal (“I can’t”) installs a theology of unanswered prayer that becomes the template for Richard’s long durée of waiting. Jacob’s “cork” parable then supplies a katechontic justification of restraint: evil is not abolished …


Between Icon And State: Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan The Terrible, Milja Radovic Oct 2026

Between Icon And State: Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan The Terrible, Milja Radovic

Journal of Religion & Film

Remembering the 80th anniversary of Sergei Eisenstein’s film Иван Грозный (Ivan the Terrible, 1944/1945), it is crucial to re-examine Eisenstein’s work, including his last film that became an unintentional ‘testament’ to cinema. Eisenstein’s mastery has been pivotal for understanding cinema and film language, the way this language operates, constructs and deconstructs and communicates historical realities. This paper focuses on a film that was made in two parts, Part I in 1944 and part II in 1945, to investigate Eisenstein’s approach to the subject of history, nation and religion. The research considers how this master of cinema contemplated intricate ideas and …


Piercing The Veil In Sinners: Theological Insights From The Juke Joint, Antonio D. Sison Cpps Oct 2026

Piercing The Veil In Sinners: Theological Insights From The Juke Joint, Antonio D. Sison Cpps

Journal of Religion & Film

Celebrated as a critical and commercial success, Ryan Coogler’s genre-defying opus Sinners has also been considered as one of the most culturally significant films of 2025. It also promises to be one of the most theologically resonant films of the year. This is evinced not only in its thematic and literary bases but, importantly, in its very audiovisual language and grammar, its stylistic strategies qua film. As reasoned in this essay, Coogler’s film is a rich locus theologicus, a nexus for theological discovery and insight.Sinners kindles the hermeneutical impulse to dialogue with African American/Pan-Africa theologies exemplified by the …


Affirmative Transcendence: The Ethics Of Mazu And The Internal Expansion Of The Confucian Moral Imagination, Yu Pei Oct 2026

Affirmative Transcendence: The Ethics Of Mazu And The Internal Expansion Of The Confucian Moral Imagination, Yu Pei

Journal of Religion & Film

This paper proposes and defends the concept of affirmative transcendence through a systematic analysis of the 2012 Chinese television drama Mazu (38 episodes, CCTV). Affirmative transcendence names a structure in which the protagonist achieves sacred status (shen 神) not by negating her human relationships but by maintaining them while exhibiting a mode of moral perception that exceeds the limits of role-based ethics. The paper argues that what is analytically distinctive about this structure is its internal character: the tradition is not rejected but exceeded, and the exceeding is accomplished through resources the tradition itself provides. The paper identifies two …