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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Now That Was A Nice Hanging: The Hateful Eight As Parable?, Richard G. Walsh
Now That Was A Nice Hanging: The Hateful Eight As Parable?, Richard G. Walsh
Journal of Religion & Film
The opening of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight conjoins the iconic landscape of the Western, Christianity’s chief symbol the crucifix, and Tarantino’s oeuvre. The film gives the crucifix so much screen time that one wonders what its significance might be. That the film climaxes with the lynching of Daisy Domergue renders the crucifix teasingly parabolic. The opening-closing frame parallels the two hangings, as do the various eulogies associated with the lynching. That Daisy’s lynching takes place at the hands of the film’s two surviving characters—who, like the horses that lead the stagecoach team delivering Daisy to her fate, are black …
Religion And Violence In Jesse James Films, 1972–2010, Travis Warren Cooper
Religion And Violence In Jesse James Films, 1972–2010, Travis Warren Cooper
Journal of Religion & Film
This essay analyzes recent depictions of Jesse James in cinema, examining filmic portrayals of the figure between the years of 1972 and 2010. Working from the intersection of the anthropology of film and religious studies approaches to popular culture, the essay fills significant gaps in the study of James folklore. As no substantial examinations of the religious aspects of the James myths exist, I hone in on the legend’s religiosity as contested in filmic form. Films, including revisionist Westerns, are not unlike oral-history statements recorded and analyzed by anthropologists, folklorists, and ethnographers. Jesse James movies, in other words, have much …
Global Catastrophe In Motion Pictures As Meaning And Message: The Functions Of Apocalyptic Cinema In American Film, Wynn Gerald Hamonic
Global Catastrophe In Motion Pictures As Meaning And Message: The Functions Of Apocalyptic Cinema In American Film, Wynn Gerald Hamonic
Journal of Religion & Film
The steady rise in production of American apocalyptic films and the genre's enduring popularity over the last seven decades can be explained by the functions the film genre serves. Through an analysis of a broad range of apocalyptic films along with the application of several theoretical and critical approaches to the study of film, the author describes seven functions commonly found in American apocalyptic cinema expressed both in terms of its meaning (the underlying purpose of the film) and its message (the ideas the filmmakers want to convey to the audience). Apocalyptic cinema helps the viewer make sense of the …
Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, And The Nation, Kathryn C. Hardy
Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, And The Nation, Kathryn C. Hardy
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of William Elison, Christian Lee Novetzke, and Andy Rotman, Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016).
Hidden Figures, Carol Miles
Hidden Figures, Carol Miles
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Hidden Figures (2016), directed by Theodore Melfi.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power, John C. Lyden
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017), directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk.