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Bring a cultural-studies toolkit to bear on the world's most interpreted text
The study of the Bible has adapted to the full range of analytical tools available to theologians, scholars, and researchers of every stripe. The marriage between cultural studies and Biblical studies has been especially fruitful, increasingly producing rich and provocative engagements with Biblical texts and contexts. Students of the Bible stand to profit significantly from a volume which illustrates the value of cultural studies approaches by putting these theories into practice.
American Standard meets the needs of these students with a series of lively essays working through cultural-studies readings of specific Biblical texts. Drawing connections between the Bible and its modern settings, American popular culture, and more, it balances theory with direct close reading to provide an accessible introduction to the vast and varied landscape of cultural studies.
American Standard readers will also find:
An invaluable literature review of core cultural studies texts
Detailed analyses incorporating fantasy gaming, the films of Joel and Ethan Coen, American diet culture, and more
An author with an extensive teaching and publishing history in cultural and Biblical studies
American Standard is ideal for advanced undergraduate or seminary students taking courses in biblical interpretation, American religion, critical theory, or any related subjects.
Contents
Acknowledgments x
1 A General Introduction to Cultural Studies and Cultural Studies Approaches to the Bible 1
Spreading the Word: The Bible's Viral Encounter with US Pop Culture 1
Old School: Birmingham, Marxism, and Late Capitalism 4
It's in the Mix: Cultural Studies as Intertextuality 12
Assembling the Pieces: Reception, Deleuzian Machines, Affect 17
The Plan of This Book 19
Part I From CCCS to Late Capitalism 31
2 Reading Readers: Modern Evangelicalism's Material (Biblical) Renaissance 33
The Bible in Late Capitalism 34
The Bible, New and Improved 39
A Self- Evident Book: The Bible and Nineteenth- Century United States 41
The Rise of the "Value- Added" Bible: The American Bible in the Age of Modernism 45
The American Bible in Late Capitalism 48
Are Bibles Read or Just Looked at? 51
Our Bibles, Ourselves 53
3 Graphic Bibles: The Word Becomes (Affecting) Image 57
Graphic Bibles 58
Robert Crumb on Genesis 60
"Translation" of Word into Image 64
The Reticence of Biblical Image 66
Conclusion 67
4 "Eat This Book": The Bible and the American Diet 72
The Bible and Cultural Studies 72
Defining "Culture" and the "Culture of Everyday Life" 75
The Biblical Scholarship on/and the American Diet 79
Biblical Eating 81
The Bible, Pop Culture, Food, and Consumption 86
Part II The Intertextual Bible 93
5 The Ketuvim in the Coenim: Bible and Apocalyptic in the Films of Joel and Ethan Coen 95
What's in Your Bible? 96
The Coenim 98
Barton Fink (1991) 99
Ladykillers (2004) 103
Jews, and Jewish Bibles, in Hollywood 106
(Re)reading the Coen Bible 108
6 "Do Not Forsake Me": Biblical Motifs in Zinnemann's High Noon 112
First Verse (Précis) 112
Second Verse 118
Bridge 121
Refrain 124
7 God's Dice: The Bible in/and Sci-Fi and Fantasy Gaming 128
Dungeons & Dragons and the Birth of a Genre 130
The Lore of the God- Emperor: Warhammer 40k's Narrative Frame 132
The Devil in the Details: Satan and the Cosmic War Motif in W40k and D&D 134
The "Satanic Panic" and the Dissonance Between D&D and Some US Religious Circles 137
The "Origins of Satan" and the Bible as Fantasy Literature 139
Playing (with) the Devil 145
Part III Affective Machines: Deleuze, Cultural Studies, and the Next Wave 151
8 Mysteries of the Bible Documentary: The Bible in Popular Nonfiction Documentary Film 153
Truth and Representation 154
Modes and Methods of Documentary 156
A (Very Brief) Introduction and Review of Bible Documentary 158
Mysteries of the Bible 159
From Jesus to Christ 160
Testimony of the Ark 162
On the Filming of Documentaries, There Is No End 163
9 "I (Want to) Believe, Lord; Help Me in My Unbelief": Revelation, Raëleans, Mayans, and North American Pop Eschatology 167
The Beginning of the End 168
What the Bible Raëlly Says 169
Discerning the Bak'tun 172
Converging Sight Lines 175
On Conspiracies of Affect(s) and Apocalyptics 178
Apocalypse: John's Vision of the (Sometimes Scary) Real World 181
Horror Movies: 28 Days Later...and the Revelation of Rage 182
Conspiracy 185
10 Bespoke Words: The Bible, Fashion, and the Mechanism(s) of Things 190
Theoretically Naked 190
Boxers and Socks 192
Shirt and Trousers 193
Shoes 195
Jacket 196
Tie 197
Glasses 198
Conclusion: 2020 Visions: Why the Bible and Popular Culture Matter 203
Index 214
Index of Biblical Citations 219
