Catholics in the movies
Catholicism was all over movie screens in 2004. Mel Gibsons The Passion of the Christ was at the center of a media firestorm for months. A priest was a crucial character in the Academy Award-winning Million Dollar Baby. Everyone, it seemed, was talking about how religious stories should be represented, marketed, and received. Catholic characters, spaces, and rituals have been stock features in popular films since the silent era. An intensely visual religion with a well-defined ritual and authority system, Catholicism lends itself to the drama and pageantry of film. Moviegoers watch as Catholic
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1 online resource (xiv, 362 pages) : illustrations
9780198041849, 9781435617872, 0198041845, 1435617878
191027000
Why the movies? why religion? / Colleen McDannell
The silent social problem film : regeneration (1915) / Judith Weisenfeld
Boys to men : Angels with dirty faces (1938) / Thomas J. Ferraro
Jews and Catholics converge : the song of Bernadette (1943) / Paula M. Kane
America's favorite priest : Going my way (1944) / Anthony Burke Smith
God and guns : Seven cities of gold (1955) / Theresa Saunders
Life on the frontier : Lilies of the field (1963) / Jeffrey Marlett
Praying for stones like this : The Godfather trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990) / Carlo Rotella
Catholic horror :The exorcist (1973) / Colleen McDannell
Cops, priests, and the decline of Irish America : True confessions (1981) / Timothy J. Meagher
Worldly Madonna : entertaining angels : the Dorothy Day story (1996) / Tracy Fessenden
Border saints : Santitos (1997) / Darryl V. Caterine
Catholicism wow! : Dogma (1999) / Amy Frykholm
Votive offering : The Passion of the Christ (2004) / Colleen McDannell
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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