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Full-Text Articles in Film and Media Studies
Ghost In The Machine, John C. Lyden
Ghost In The Machine, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Ghost in the Machine (2026), directed by Valerie Veatch.
Hold Onto Me, John C. Lyden
Hold Onto Me, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Hold Onto Me (2025), directed by Myrsini Aristidou.
See You When I See You, John C. Lyden
See You When I See You, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of See You When I See You (2026), directed by Jay Duplass.
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!, John C. Lyden
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026), directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka.
Touch, Frederick Ruf
Touch, Frederick Ruf
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Touch (2024), directed by Baltasar Kormákur.
Blood Lines, Sherry Coman
Blood Lines, Sherry Coman
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Blood Lines (2025), directed by Gail Maurice.
Love + War, Sherry Coman
Love + War, Sherry Coman
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Love + War (2025), directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin.
The Testament Of Ann Lee, Sherry Coman
The Testament Of Ann Lee, Sherry Coman
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of The Testament of Ann Lee (2025), directed by Mona Fastvold.
Sink, Sherry Coman
Sink, Sherry Coman
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Sink (2025), directed by Zain Duarte.
Julian, Sherry Coman
Julian, Sherry Coman
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Julian (2025), directed by Cato Kusters.
Oca, Sherry Coman
Oca, Sherry Coman
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Oca (2025), directed by Karla Badillo.
Blue Moon, Sherry Coman
Blue Moon, Sherry Coman
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Blue Moon (2025), directed by Richard Linklater.
Nouvelle Vague, Sherry Coman
Nouvelle Vague, Sherry Coman
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Nouvelle Vague (2025), directed by Richard Linklater.
Quasi-Feminism And Identity Exploration In The Film Laapata Ladies, Dr. Bharat Dhiman, Nausheen Khan
Quasi-Feminism And Identity Exploration In The Film Laapata Ladies, Dr. Bharat Dhiman, Nausheen Khan
Journal of Religion & Film
The film Laapata Ladies (2024), directed by Kiran Rao, is a social commentary revolving around misogyny and the socio-cultural barriers faced by women in rural India, serving as a brilliant ode to womanhood and conveying its message effectively without any melodrama, thereby reflecting social realities at a ground level. The film explores the protagonists’ inner dilemmas, constraints, struggles, and hardships, advocating the cause for inclusivity from a quasi-feminist perspective, poignantly urging us to re-examine our perspectives and stirring conversations around the need for women to establish their own identities, away from the standard kaleidoscope of the male gaze.
28 Years Later, Dennis Etzel Jr
28 Years Later, Dennis Etzel Jr
Journal of Religion & Film
In 28 Years Later, Alex Garland creates another screenplay of mythological elements based on Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey and archetypal characters. The family unit of son, mother, and father are examined alongside the two Hero's Journeys the son Spike takes--a false one and a true one. Ultimately, the positive trickster of the scientist-priest sage represents the example using rituals of being human in a chaotic world.
Sinners, John C. Lyden
Sinners, John C. Lyden
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Sinners (2025), directed by Ryan Coogler.
Iranian Culture In Bahram Beyzaie’S Cinema And Theatre: Paradigms Of Being And Belonging (1959-79), Hessam Abedini
Iranian Culture In Bahram Beyzaie’S Cinema And Theatre: Paradigms Of Being And Belonging (1959-79), Hessam Abedini
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Saeed Talajooy, Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre: Paradigms of Being and Belonging (1959-79) (London: I.B. Tauris, 2023)
Subjectivity And Decolonisation In The Post-Independence Novel And Film, Heather Bigley
Subjectivity And Decolonisation In The Post-Independence Novel And Film, Heather Bigley
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Sarah Jilani, Subjectivity and Decolonisation in the Post-Independence Novel and Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).
Cinema Illuminating Reality: Media Philosophy Through Buddhism, Teng-Kuan Ng
Cinema Illuminating Reality: Media Philosophy Through Buddhism, Teng-Kuan Ng
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Victor Fan, Cinema Illuminating Reality: Media Philosophy through Buddhism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022)
Transnational Horror: Folklore, Genre, And Cultural Politics, Damon T. Berry
Transnational Horror: Folklore, Genre, And Cultural Politics, Damon T. Berry
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Cüneyt Çakırlar, ed. Transnational Horror: Folklore, Genre, and Cultural Politics (Liverpool, 2025)
Mapping Muslimness In Hindi Cinema, Syed Haider
Mapping Muslimness In Hindi Cinema, Syed Haider
Journal of Religion & Film
This essay reviews two books: Nadira Khatun, Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), and Mohammed Asim Siddiqui, Muslim Identity in Hindi Cinema (New York: Routledge, 2025).
Lived Islam In Films: Faith-Based Resilient Responses Of Syrian Refugees, Jumana S. Al-Ahmad
Lived Islam In Films: Faith-Based Resilient Responses Of Syrian Refugees, Jumana S. Al-Ahmad
Journal of Religion & Film
This article provides educators in fields such as Middle Eastern studies, refugee studies, cultural and Islamic studies with a framework from documentaries to challenge stereotypes about Muslim refugees and migrants. Using the framework of lived Islam, the article explores how Syrian Muslim migrants, as seen in documentaries, draw on their faith to build resilience that enables them to continue striving for better lives. Resilience is defined as the ability to overcome challenges and catastrophes, envision solutions, and lead a purposeful life. This article conceptualizes resilience not only as a personal trait but also as a collective tool for survival and …
Monstrous Girls And Celestial Lovers: Fantasy, Fear, And Female Adolescence In The Malayalam Films Ennu Swantham Janakikutty And Njan Gandharvan, Helena Reddington
Monstrous Girls And Celestial Lovers: Fantasy, Fear, And Female Adolescence In The Malayalam Films Ennu Swantham Janakikutty And Njan Gandharvan, Helena Reddington
Journal of Religion & Film
The Malayalam films Ennu Swantham Janakikutty and Njan Gandharvan reimagine figures from Kerala folklore, namely the Yakṣi and the Gandharva, within coming-of-age narratives. Both films position the characters of the Yakṣi and the Gandharva as fantastical figures who usher the young female protagonist into maturity. Rather than offering a pan-Hindu survey, this study focuses specifically on Kerala’s unique reimaginings of these celestial beings, where these figures carry distinct cultural meanings. This interpretive analysis is situated at the intersection of film studies, religious studies, as well as gender and sexuality studies, drawing particularly on feminist theory and critical approaches to vernacular …
Women’S Bonds And Chance Encounters: An Analogical Reading Of The Book Of Ruth And Joshua Marston’S Film Maria Full Of Grace, Luigi De Angelis Soriano
Women’S Bonds And Chance Encounters: An Analogical Reading Of The Book Of Ruth And Joshua Marston’S Film Maria Full Of Grace, Luigi De Angelis Soriano
Journal of Religion & Film
This article offers an analogical reading of the biblical book of Ruth and Joshua Marston’s 2004 film Maria Full of Grace, examining how both narratives portray migrant women who form strategic social bonds to navigate precariousness within limiting power structures. While Ruth and María inhabit vastly different cultural and historical contexts, their stories meet in their emphasis on female solidarity and human agency. Focusing on key verses from Ruth and pivotal scenes from Maria Full of Grace, this study highlights how emotional and ethical relationships among women—whether covenantal or born of desperation—become sources of strength in the absence …
The Secular Eschatology Of Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood, Timothy Winterstein
The Secular Eschatology Of Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood, Timothy Winterstein
Journal of Religion & Film
This article considers the ending of Quentin Tarantino's 2019 film Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood in light of Christian eschatology. I argue that Tarantino gives us an image of a temporal, partial eschatological moment, which relates to and interacts with a scriptural, Christian perspective on hope and the universal human longing for things to be other than what they are.
Hermeneutical Priming And Linguistic Hijacking In The God’S Not Dead Series, Brant Entrekin
Hermeneutical Priming And Linguistic Hijacking In The God’S Not Dead Series, Brant Entrekin
Journal of Religion & Film
In this paper, I analyze the evangelical Christian film series God's Not Dead. I argue that the film series functions as Christian Nationalist propaganda through its rhetoric and aesthetic choices. I then develop two forms of epistemic manipulation that the film uses to fulfill its propagandistic function: hermeneutical priming and linguistic hijacking. I suggest that the film series' use of these rhetorical strategies highlights some of the ways that evangelical Christian cinema is engaging with rising right-wing political movements and developing unique evangelical imaginations.
100 Years Of Sergei Eisenstein: Iconographic Language And Revolution, Milja Radovic
100 Years Of Sergei Eisenstein: Iconographic Language And Revolution, Milja Radovic
Journal of Religion & Film
As we commemorate the 100th anniversary of Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece Броненосец Потёмкин / Battleship Potemkin (1925), it is essential to re-examine the film that has had enduring influence on film theory, history, and scholarship. Voted one of the greatest films of all time, Eisenstein’s cinematic genius has been crucial to understanding the power of film language. This paper focuses on the underexplored relationship between Eisenstein’s film language and iconography, examining the ways in which Orthodox Christian iconography shaped the story of revolution. The paper delves into the ways in which Eisenstein conveyed complex ideas, demonstrating the technical developments of film …
Saintly Cinema: Modelling The Icon In The Flowers Of St. Francis And Andrei Rublev, Alexander Hart
Saintly Cinema: Modelling The Icon In The Flowers Of St. Francis And Andrei Rublev, Alexander Hart
Journal of Religion & Film
Throughout the history of the cinema, filmmakers have turned to the visual arts for inspiration in creating spiritual styles on film. In this essay, it is argued that Roberto Rossellini’s The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev (1966) were influenced by Giotto di Bondone’s frescos and Andrei Rublev’s Eastern Orthodox icons, respectively. Committed to realism, Rossellini adopts Giotto’s proto-Renaissance, humanist art as a model for a spiritual style in which the Transcendent is manifested through the natural world. Subverting terrestrial reality, Tarkovsky adopts the aesthetic principles of the Eastern Orthodox icon, translating Pavel Florensky’s concepts of …
The Theological Power Of Film, Irena Sever Globan
The Theological Power Of Film, Irena Sever Globan
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of James Lorenz, The Theological Power of Film (New York: Routledge, 2024).
A Labor Of Love: Wall-E'S Redemption, Rosamund M. Gammie
A Labor Of Love: Wall-E'S Redemption, Rosamund M. Gammie
Journal of Religion & Film
Inaugurated into the Criterion Collection in 2022 this paper re-examines some of the initial responses to the 2008 Disney-Pixar animated film, WALL-E. The movie received a mixed reception, largely celebrated (but occasionally viewed as “too leftist” by others) for its environmental, anti-capitalist message by many public critics, yet disparaged or dismissed as being superficially empty, shallow, and hollow in academic circles. Labor has been the focus of some academic criticism of the film, particularly as it relates to commoditisation, but this paper recontextualises labor not with capitalism, but with love. By viewing the film through the dynamic of labor and …