Description
The religious imagination is alive and well in the movies. Contrary to those who criticize Hollywood, popular movies very often have metaphorically represented God on the screen. From Clint Eastwood as an avenging angel in Pale Rider and Nicolas Cage as a lovesick angel in City of Angels to Jessica Lange as an angel of death in All That Jazz, and from George Burns as God in Oh, God! to Audrey Hepburn in Always to pure white light in Fearless and Flatliners, God is very much present in the movies.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1: God in the Movies; 2: Movies as Story and Metaphor; 3: Always a Lover: Audrey Hepburn as Lady Wisdom; 4: Life, Love, and All That Jazz: Jessica Lange and the Passion of God; 5: Babette’s Feast of Love: Symbols Subtle but Patent; 6: Is This Heaven? No, It’s Iowa; 7: Pale Rider; 8: Ghost; 9: FlatUners: Forgiveness Stronger than Death; 10: Jacob’s Ladder: God in the Nightmare; 11: Angel Angst and the Direction of Desire; 12: A Note on Purgatory in the Movies; 13: How to Put God in a Movie; 14: Magical Realism and the Problem of Evil; 15: European Novel, American Movie, Japanimation: The Evolution of Storytelling; 16: Conclusion
