{"product_id":"protestants-on-screen-9780190058913","title":"Protestants on Screen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProtestants on Screen explores the Protestant contributions to American and European film from the silent era to the present day. The authors analyze how Protestant filmmakers, beliefs, theology, symbols, sensibilities, and cultural patterns have shaped the history of film. Challenging the stereotype of Protestants as world-denouncing-and-defying puritans and iconoclasts who stood in the way of film''s maturation as an art, the authors contend that Protestants were among the key catalysts in the origins and development of film, bringing an identifiably Protestant aesthetic to the medium. The essays in this volume track key Protestant themes like faith and doubt, sin and depravity, biblical literalism, personal conversion and personal redemption, holiness and sanctification, moralism and pietism, Providence and secularism, apocalypticism, righteousness and justice, religion and race, the priesthood of all believers and its offshoots-democratization and individualism. Protestants, the es\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile Roman Catholicism's influence on film is well known, the corresponding influence of Protestantism is frequently ignored. This volume remedies that through attention to the ways in which Protestant themes and representation are expressed in films, as well as how Protestant filmmakers and audiences have contributed to the art form and its reception. A must read for anyone interested in the multiple ways in which Protestantism and film have interacted over the last century! * John Lyden, Blizek Professor of Religion and Film, University of Nebraska Omaha *\u003cbr\u003eIn Protestants on Screen, an impressive transatlantic group of scholars offers engaging insights into the pivotal role of diverse Protestants groups have played in challenging, reforming, and promoting the film industry. Blending history and case studies, this volume advances the scholarship of religion and film and furnishes an indispensable foundation for future study. * Terry Lindvall, C. S. Lewis Professor of Communication and Christian Thought, Virginia Wesleyan University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Introduction Part I: Why Protestants and Film Introduction Part II: What is Religion and Why is it Important in Film? Introduction Part III: What is Protestantism? Introduction Part IV: Protestantism and Film - Historical Overview Introduction Part V: Protestant Film Aesthetics Introduction Part VI: Chapter Overview  Part I. History and Theory of Protestantism in Religion and Film Studies 1 - Protestant Responses to Hollywood, Censorship, and Art Cinema William D. Romanski 2 - Independent Protestant Film, from the Silent Era to its Resurgence Andrew Quicke 3 - Protestant Themes within Secular Models of Salvation --\"Redeemed\" or just \"A Bit Happier\"'?: The Example of Crazy Heart Clive Marsh  Part II. The Protestant Reformation on Screen 4 - \"Here I stand I can do no other...\" Martin Luther in German and American Biopics Esther Wipfler 5 - The Vexed Man: Oliver Cromwell and the English Reformation and Civil War on Screen Gastón Espinosa 6 - Propaganda, Blasphemy, and The Savage God in The Witchfinder General \u0026amp; The Wicker Man Victor Sage  Part III. Protestant Influences in European Art Films 7 - Words versus \"The Word\": Language and Scripture in Ingmar Bergman's Films and Writings Maaret Koskinen 8 - Protestant Miracle in Dreyer's Ordet Marc LeFanu 9 - Babette's Feast: Protestant Pietism, the Conflict of Spirit and Flesh, and Reconciliatory Grace in the Danish Babette's Feast Kjell O. Lejon 10 - Protestant Ambivalence Towards Allegory in Wim Wenders' The Scarlet Letter Erik Redling  Part IV. Protestant Experience in American Movies 11 - Where Were You? The Problem of Evil in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life Mark Scott 12 - \"Holy Ghost Power!\" in Robert Duvall's The Apostle Gastón Espinosa and Jason Stevens 13 - Sinner or Saint?: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in Selma Julius H. Bailey 14 - The Religious Motif of Mountains in Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? Melanie Johnson 15 - A Tender View of Conservative Evangelicalism in Higher Ground Paula M. Kane 16 - Evangelicals and Star Wars: Appropriating a Culture from a Galaxy Far Far Away Alex Wainer  Part V. Protestant Themes in Film Genres 17 - The Rise and Fall of Evangelical Protestant Apocalyptic Horror: From A Thief in the Night to Left Behind and Beyond Timothy Beal 18 - The Western. Radical Forgiveness in Unforgiven Sara Anson Vaux 19 - Protestant Pacifist: War and Pacifism in Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge Matthew S. Rindge 20 - Film Noir, Calvinism, and Self-Surveillance in Paul Schrader's Hardcore Jason Stevens 21 - Lost in Adaptation: Aslan's Divinity and the Purpose of Real Pain in Narnia versus Fantasy Film Devin Brown","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732529688919,"sku":"9780190058913","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/protestants-on-screen-9780190058913","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}