Screening Scripture Intertextual Connections Between Scripture and Film,9781563383540

Screening Scripture Intertextual Connections Between Scripture and Film

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9781563383540
ISBN10: 1563383543
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-05-01
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury T&T Clark
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Summary

An intertextual examination of popular films and scripture.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Scripture as Precursor vii
Richard Walsh
George Aichele
On Finding a Non-American Revelation: End of Days and the Book of Revelation
1(23)
Richard Walsh
Of Gods and Demons: Blood Sacrifice and Eternal Life in Dracula and the Apocalypse of John
24(18)
Tina Pippin
Atomic Anxiety in Cold War Britain: Science, Sin, and Uncertainty in Nuclear Monster Films
42(16)
Neal R. McCrillis
Alienation, Sex, and an Unsatisfactory Ending: Themes and Features of Stories Old and New
58(19)
Ralph J Brabban
Coming-of Age in The Prince of Egypt
77(23)
Jennifer Rohrer-Walsh
Sitcom Mythology
100(20)
George Aichele
Non-Sense: Total Recall, Paul, and the Possibility of Psychosis
120(35)
Roland Boer
Gazing at Impotence in Henry King's David and Bathsheba
155(33)
Julie Kelso
Why Girls Cry: Gender Melancholia and Sexual Violence in Ezekiel 16 and Boys Don't Cry
188(25)
Erin Runions
Meeting Patch Again for the First Time: Purity and Compassion in Marcus Borg, the Gospel of Mark, and Patch Adams
213(16)
Jeffrey L. Staley
Learning from the Life of Brian: Saviors for Seminars
229(22)
Carl Dyke
The Characterization of Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon 1: An Archetypal Hero
251(28)
Fred Burnett
Paradoxical Protagonists: Sling Blade's Karl and Jesus Christ
279(22)
Mark Roncace
Movies Cited 301(4)
Bibliography 305(18)
Contributors 323(4)
Index of Names 327(4)
Index of Texts 331

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