God on the Big Screen (eBook)

A History of Hollywood Prayer from the Silent Era to Today

Terry Lindvall (Autor)

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2019
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-3156-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Links film history with church history over the past century, illuminating America's broader relationship with religious currents over time Moments of prayer have been represented in Hollywood movies since the silent era, appearing unexpectedly in films as diverse as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Frankenstein, Amistad, Easy Rider, Talladega Nights, and Alien 3, as well as in religiously inspired classics such as Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments. Here, Terry Lindvall examines how films have reflected, and sometimes sought to prescribe, ideas about how one ought to pray. He surveys the landscape of those films that employ prayer in their narratives, beginning with the silent era and moving through the uplifting and inspirational movies of the Great Depression and World War II, the cynical, anti-establishment films of the 60s and 70s, and the sci-fi and fantasy blockbusters of today. Lindvall considers how the presentation of cinematic prayer varies across race, age, and gender, and places the use of prayer in film in historical context, shedding light on the religious currents at play during those time periods. God on the Big Screen demonstrates that the way prayer is presented in film during each historical period tells us a great deal about America's broader relationship with religion.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.8.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 25 black and white illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Aimee Semple McPherson • American Cinema • American dream • American silent film • Apocalypse • Baby Boom • blasphemy • Cecil B. DeMille • Christianity • Church history • Civil Religion • Civil Rights Movement • Cold War • comic prayer • Death of God movement • D. W. Griffith • dying prayers • exemplary prayer • Fairy tale • Fantasy genre • Film noir • Great Depression • horror films • How to pray • Intercessory prayer • ironic prayer • Liberation Theology • Mary Pickford • piety in films • popular culture • Postmodernism • Race • race cinema • Religion and Film • Religious films • religious photoplays • religious pretenders • revelatory prayer • Roman Catholic Church • Ronald Reagan • science fiction films • Silent Films • Sports • Televangelists • traditional prayer • Vatican II • Victorian films • Vietnam War • vindictive prayer • Wall Street Crash • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-3156-5 / 1479831565
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-3156-2 / 9781479831562