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Useless beauty : Ecclesiastes through the lens of contemporary film / Robert K. Johnston.

By: Publication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2004.Description: 208 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0801027853 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 223/.806 22
LOC classification:
  • BS1475.52 .J64 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
A battered optimism : Ecclesiastes and our contemporary context -- The existentialist alternative : Akira Kurosawa and Woody Allen -- Death and life : Alan Ball and American beauty -- The saddest happy ending : Paul Thomas Anderson and Magnolia -- Chance and fate : Tom Tykwer and Run Lola run -- An ambiguous joy : Marc Forster and Monster's ball -- Can God be in this? : M. Night Shyamalan and Signs -- Confessions of a workaholic : Alexander Payne, election, and about Schmidt -- Humanity at full stretch : let the preacher respond.
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Book The Emmaus Library Open Shelves 221 Old Testament 223.806 JOH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 17874

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-200) and index.

A battered optimism : Ecclesiastes and our contemporary context -- The existentialist alternative : Akira Kurosawa and Woody Allen -- Death and life : Alan Ball and American beauty -- The saddest happy ending : Paul Thomas Anderson and Magnolia -- Chance and fate : Tom Tykwer and Run Lola run -- An ambiguous joy : Marc Forster and Monster's ball -- Can God be in this? : M. Night Shyamalan and Signs -- Confessions of a workaholic : Alexander Payne, election, and about Schmidt -- Humanity at full stretch : let the preacher respond.

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