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Screening the sacred [electronic resource] : religion, myth, a nd ideology in popular American film / edited by Joel W. Martin, Con rad E. Ostwalt, Jr.

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TextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-Book | ATLA Special SeriesPublication details: Boulder : Westview Press, c1995.Description: x, 193 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s):

Motion pictures -- Religious aspects

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Introduction: seeing the sacred on the screen / Joel W. Martin -- Sh all these bones live? The Problem of bodies in Alfred Hitchcock's Psych o and Joel Coen's Blood simple / Larry E. Grimes -- Angels in the primu m mobile: dimensions of the sacred in William Kennedy's Ironweed, novel and film / Ted L Estess -- The Christian allegorical structure of Plat oon / Avent Childress Beck -- Hollywood and Armageddon: apocalyptic the mes in recent cinematic presentation / Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr. -- Star wa rs: a myth for our time / Andrew Gordon -- With eyes uplifted: space al iens as sky gods / Caron Schwartz Ellis -- Evolution of "The New fronti er" in Alien and Aliens: patriarchal co-optation of the feminine archet ype / Janice Hocker Rushing -- Redeeming America: Rocky as ritual racia l drama / Joel W. Martin -- From revelation to dream: allegory in David Lynch's Blue velvet / Elizabeth McLemore -- Women spoken for: images o f displaced desire / Irena Makarushka -- Conclusion: religion, film, an d cultural analysis / Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr.

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