Protestants 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
essays in this volume demonstrate, helped birth and shape the film
industry and harness the power of motion pictures for spiritual
instruction, edification, and cultural influence.
General
Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Volume editors: |
Gastón Espinosa
(Department Chair and Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religious Studies)
|
Editors: |
Erik Redling
(Professor of American Literature and Culture)
• Jason Stevens
(Independent Scholar)
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
384 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-005891-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-19-005891-9 |
Barcode: |
9780190058913 |
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