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Protestants on Screen explores the Protestant contributions to American and European film from the silent era to the present day. The authors analyze how Protestant filmmakers, beliefs, theology, symbols, sensibilities, and cultural patterns have shaped the history of film. Challenging the stereotype of Protestants as world-denouncing-and-defying puritans and iconoclasts who stood in the way of film's maturation as an art, the authors contend that Protestants were among the key catalysts in the origins and development of film, bringing an identifiably Protestant aesthetic to the medium.The essays in this volume track key Protestant themes like faith and doubt, sin and depravity, biblical literalism, personal conversion and personal redemption, holiness and sanctification, moralism and pietism, Providence and secularism, apocalypticism, righteousness and justice, religion and race, the priesthood of all believers and its offshoots-democratization and individualism. Protestants, the essays in this volume demonstrate, helped birth and shape the film industry and harness the power of motion pictures for spiritual instruction, edification, and cultural influence.
Table of Contents
IntroductionIntroduction Part I: Why Protestants and FilmIntroduction Part II: What is Religion and Why is it Important in Film?Introduction Part III: What is Protestantism?Introduction Part IV: Protestantism and Film - Historical OverviewIntroduction Part V: Protestant Film AestheticsIntroduction Part VI: Chapter OverviewPart I. History and Theory of Protestantism in Religion and Film Studies1 - Protestant Responses to Hollywood, Censorship, and Art CinemaWilliam D. Romanski2 - Independent Protestant Film, from the Silent Era to its ResurgenceAndrew Quicke3 - Protestant Themes within Secular Models of Salvation --"Redeemed" or just "A Bit Happier"'?: The Example of Crazy HeartClive MarshPart II. The Protestant Reformation on Screen4 - "Here I stand I can do no other..." Martin Luther in German and American BiopicsEsther Wipfler5 - The Vexed Man: Oliver Cromwell and the English Reformation and Civil War on ScreenGastón Espinosa6 - Propaganda, Blasphemy, and The Savage God in The Witchfinder General & The Wicker ManVictor SagePart III. Protestant Influences in European Art Films7 - Words versus "The Word": Language and Scripture in Ingmar Bergman's Films and WritingsMaaret Koskinen8 - Protestant Miracle in Dreyer's OrdetMarc LeFanu9 - Babette's Feast: Protestant Pietism, the Conflict of Spirit and Flesh, and Reconciliatory Grace in the Danish Babette's FeastKjell O. Lejon10 - Protestant Ambivalence Towards Allegory in Wim Wenders' The Scarlet LetterErik RedlingPart IV. Protestant Experience in American Movies11 - Where Were You? The Problem of Evil in Terrence Malick's The Tree of LifeMark Scott12 - "Holy Ghost Power!" in Robert Duvall's The ApostleGastón Espinosa and Jason Stevens13 - Sinner or Saint?: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in SelmaJulius H. Bailey14 - The Religious Motif of Mountains in Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?Melanie Johnson15 - A Tender View of Conservative Evangelicalism in Higher GroundPaula M. Kane16 - Evangelicals and Star Wars: Appropriating a Culture from a Galaxy Far Far AwayAlex WainerPart V. Protestant Themes in Film Genres17 - The Rise and Fall of Evangelical Protestant Apocalyptic Horror: From A Thief in the Night to Left Behind and BeyondTimothy Beal18 - The Western. Radical Forgiveness in UnforgivenSara Anson Vaux19 - Protestant Pacifist: War and Pacifism in Mel Gibson's Hacksaw RidgeMatthew S. Rindge20 - Film Noir, Calvinism, and Self-Surveillance in Paul Schrader's HardcoreJason Stevens21 - Lost in Adaptation: Aslan's Divinity and the Purpose of Real Pain in Narnia versus Fantasy FilmDevin Brown
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