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| Iliff School of Theology | Instructor: Jeffrey Mahan |
| Winter, 2017 | jmahan@iliff.edu |
| Monday, 1:00 - 4:30PM | Room: BEC 218 |
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What, therefore, might be the ‘religious’ dimensions of such a film consists
not in doctrinal resonances but in how the film itself, both in its narrative and
in its cinematic techniques, accommodates to the deep incomprehensibility
of events and, beyond that, adumbrates the mysteriousness of the world itself.”
William R. LaFleur
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God is Box Office
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C.B. DeMille
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Religion and art are parallel lines which intersect only at infinity, and meet in God.”
Gerardus van der Leeuw
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Pentecostal beliefs and technology act so much in support of each other
that they become more or less indistinguishable. This being so,
it is impossible to maintain a stable distinction between film and religion
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Birgit Myer
Bibliographic Suggestions
Aichele, George and Richard Walsh, eds., Screening Scripture: Intertextual Connections Between Scripture and Film. Trinity Press, 2002.
Anker, Roy M., Catching Light: Looking for God in the Movies. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 2004
Bandy, Mary Lea and Antonio Monda, eds. The Hidden God: Film and Faith. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2003.
Baugh, Lloyd, Imagining the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film. Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1997.
Cunneen, Joseph, Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style in Film. London & New York: Continuum, 2003.
Deacy, Christopher, Screen Christologies: Redemption and the Medium of Film. Cadifr: University of Wales Press, 2001.
“ “ , Screening the Afterlife: Theology, Eschatology, and Film, London: Routledge, 2011.
Evans, Christopher Hodge and William R. Herzog, The Faith of 50 Million: Baseball, Religion and American Culture. Presbyterian Publishing Corp, 2002.
Flesher, Paul V.M. and Robert Torrey, Film and Religion: An Introduction, Nashville: Abingdon, 2007.
Forshey, Gerald, American Religious and Biblical Spectaculars, Westport: Praeger, 1992.
Grace, Pamela, The Religious Film, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Graham, Elaine L., Representations of the Post/Human: Monsters, Aliens and Others in Popular Culture. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002.
Jewett, Robert, Saint Paul at the Movies. Louisville: Westminister/John Known Press, 1993.
Johnson, Robert K., Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2000.
Johnson, Robert K. Reframing Theology and Film: New Focus for an Emerging Discipline. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007.
Lyden, John C. Film as Religion. New York and London: New York University Press, 2003.
“ “ , ed., The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film, London, Routledge 2011.
Martin, Joel W. and Conrad El Ostwalt Jr. Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth and Ideology in Popular American Film, Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.
May, John R., Image and Likeness: Religious Visions in American Film Classics, New York: Paulist Press, 1991.
May, John R. and Michael Bird, eds., Religion in Film, Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1982.
Miles, Margaret R., Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
Mitchell, Jolyon, Media Violence and Christian Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Jolyon Mitchell and S. Brent Plate, The Religion and Film Reader, London: Routledge, 2007,
Morgan, David. The Lure of Images: A History of Religion and Visual Media in the United States. London: Routledge, 2007.
Plate, S. Brent, ed., Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Pungente, John J. and Monty Williams. Finding God in the Dark: Taking the Spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius to the Movies, Boston, Pauline Books & Media, 2004.
Runions, Eric, How Hysterical: Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Scott, Bernard Brandon, Hollywood Dreams & Biblical Stories. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994.
Stern, Richard C., Clayton N. Jeffords and Ruerric Demona, O.S.B., Savior on the Silver Screen. New York: Paulist Press, 1999.
Walsh, Richard, Finding St Paul in Film, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Watkins, Gregory J, Teaching Religion and Film, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Weisenfeld, Judith, Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Film, 1929-1949, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Wright, Melanie J., Religion and Film, London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.
Web Resources:
Bible Films. Bible Films Blog: http://biblefilms.blogspot.com/
Journal of Religion and Film, http://avalon.unomaha.edu/jrf/
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, http”//www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/index.html
| Date | Day | Details | |
| Jan 09, 2017 | Mon | Intro to Film and Religion | due by 08:00PM |
| Jan 16, 2017 | Mon | MLK Day, no class | due by 08:00PM |
| Jan 24, 2017 | Tue | Displacements of Jesus and Christ Figures | due by 06:59AM |
| Jan 31, 2017 | Tue | Religion, Film and the Construction of Race | due by 01:00AM |
| Feb 07, 2017 | Tue | Religion in the Art House Film | due by 01:00AM |
| Feb 14, 2017 | Tue | Theological Approaches | due by 01:00AM |
| Feb 21, 2017 | Tue | Muslim Art Films | due by 01:00AM |
| Feb 28, 2017 | Tue | Constructing Religious Worlds | due by 01:00AM |
| Mar 07, 2017 | Tue | Buddhist Film | due by 01:00AM |
| Mar 14, 2017 | Tue | Fandom as Religion/Course Wrap-up | due by 12:00AM |