Explorations in theology and film : movies and meaning / edited by Clive Marsh and Gaye Ortiz. - Malden, MA : Blackwell, 1998. - ix, 286 p. : illus. ; pbk ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-276) and indexes.

Films, movies, meanings / David Browne --
Film and theologies of culture / Clive Marsh --
The uses of film in theology / David John Graham --
From domination to mutuality in The Piano and in the Gospel of Mark / David Rhoads and Sandra Roberts --
The drama of salvation in George Steven's Shane / Robert Banks --
Edward Scissorhands: christology from a suburban fairy-tale / Peter Malone --
Redeeming violence in the films of Martin Scorsese / David John Graham --
Liberation in Awakenings / Ian Maher --
Jesus Christ movie star: the depiction of Jesus in the cinema / William R. Telford --
The Terminator movies: hi-tech holiness and the human condition / Gaye Ortiz and Maggie Roux --
Stuck in time: kairos, chronos and the flesh in Groundhog Day / Robert Jewett --
Moral ambiguity and contradiction in Dead Poets Society / Stephen Brie and David Torevell --
Between Eden and Armageddon: institutions, individuals, and identification in The Mission, The Name of the Rose, and Priest / Vaughan Roberts --
The spirituality of Shirley Valentine / Clive Marsh --
Did you say "grace"?: eating in community in Babette's Feast / Clive Marsh --
Optimism, hope, and feelgood movies: the Capra connection / Stephen Brown --
On systematizing the unsystematic: a response / David Jasper --
Theology beyond the modern and the postmodern: a future agenda for theology and film / Clive Marsh and Gaye Ortiz.

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