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The Bible revisited: Neue Zugänge im Film
Marburg: Schüren (2016), 352 pp.
"Set in ancient Egypt and loosely based on the story of Moses, “The Ten Commandments” is billed as Brazil’s first biblical soap opera. Swathed in Egyptian robes and sporting lapis lazuli jewelry and Cleopatra wigs, some of the characters are based on biblical or other historic figures, while o
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An Ever-Widening Screen
Ballarat: Connor Court Publishing (2015), 501 pp.
"We all have many strands in our lives. In this memoir, Peter Malone takes us through his various strands. He is a man of a certain vintage, mainly Irish heritage. He grew up as a Catholic in a pre-Vatican II Church. His call was to a religious congregation from the late 1950s and to priesthood from
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Audio-Visual Religion in Asia
Material Religion, volume 11, issue 4 (2015), pp. 415-549
Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2015), xix, 380 pp.
"Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture in turmoil. Birgit Meyer captures the dynamic process of popular filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination
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Mit Bildern bewegen: Filmgottesdienste
Hannover: Lutherisches Verlagshaus (LVH) (2014), 424 pp.
"Filme sprechen fast alle unsere Sinne an. Das Zusammenspiel von Licht, Farben und Musik erreicht die Menschen unmittelbar, berührt und bewegt die Zuschauenden. Ganz wie ein gelungener Gottesdienst. Das Massenmedium Film eignet sich auf ganz besondere Weise, Menschen mit den zentralen Themen des Le
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Mary on the Screen
CREC (2014), 74 pp.
"The first part of the book is an overview of the history of films which offer substantial images of Mary. They include the films specifically about Mary and her presence in the life of Jesus films [...] In the second part of the book, which has been designed especially as an aid to teachers, eight
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Mit Gott im Kino: 25 Filmandachten
Witten: SCM R. Brockhaus (2014), 222 pp.
"Die Filmwissenschaftlerin Dagmar Petrick präsentiert Andachten zu 25 Kinofilmen wie etwa "Billy Elliot", "Die Truman-Show", "Das Leben der Anderen", "Horton hört ein Hu", "Fahrraddiebe", "Die Verurteilten" oder "Erin Brockovich". Das hervorragende Material eignet sich für die persönliche Andach
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Clouds of Unknowing: Buddhism and Bhutanese Cinema
In: Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), pp. 157-171
"In this chapter, we have looked at how Buddhism and orality have been translated into film in Bhutan. We have argued, that cinema operates as a secondary oral medium, through the various rituals of production, distribution and consumption and, most significantly, at the level of story construction.
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Qissa and Popular Hindi Cinema
In: Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), pp. 183-194
"While acknowledging the contribution of the dominant Hindi Sanskritic narrative tradition to the shaping of popular Hindi cinema, this chapter aims to explore the alternative narrative streams that have governed storytelling in Hindi films, particularly the Perso-Arabic legacy of the qissa and dast
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Iranian Religious Film and Inter-Religious Understanding
Exchange: Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research, volume 41, issue 2 (2012), pp. 165-198
"The article deals with two recent Iranian films, al-Masih (Teh Messiah) by Nader Talebzadeh and Maryam al-Muqaddasah (Holy Mary) by Shahriar Bahrani. Both movies are about religious characters shared by Islam and Christianity: Zechariah, Mary and Jesus. The article explores the way the filmmakers h
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How Karunamayudu (1978) Became an Evangelistic Tool: Implications for Understanding Evangelicals and Media
Exchange: Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research, volume 41, issue 2 (2012), pp. 120-143
"It has not been uncommon in the history of Jesus in film for commercial movies of Jesus' life to be conscripted for Christian evangelism around the world. Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings (1927), John Krish and Peter Sykes' Jesus (1979), better known today as The Jesus Film, and Mel Gibson's Th
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Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film: Essays on Belief, Spectacle, Ritual and Imagery
Jefferson, NC: McFarland (2011), ix, 294 pp.
The Representation of African Traditional Religion and Culture in Nigeria Popular Films
Politics and Religion, volume 5, issue 1 (2011), pp. 81-101
"One of the ways by which religious rituals communicate in African society is by maintaining cohesion in the culture. They connect participants to richer meanings and larger forces of their community. Even in representational models, rituals create solidarity in the form of subjective experiences of
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Encyclopedia of Religion and Film
Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO (2011), xix, 644 pp.
"Organized alphabetically, this encyclopedia provides more than 90 entries on the larger religious traditions, the major film-producing regions of the globe, the films that have stirred controversy, the most significant religious symbols, and the more important filmmakers. The included topics provid
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Visions, Images, and Dreams: Yiddish Film, Past and Present
Teaneck, New Jers.: Holmes & Meier, revised and expanded ed. (2011), xvi, 272 pp.
Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films
Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2010), xiv, 226 pp.
"This innovative, interdisciplinary collection of essays by scholars based in Europe and the United States offers stimulating approaches to the role played by religion in present-day South Asia." (Publisher description)
The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2009), xiv, 503 pp.
