Religion and the Supernatural on the American Screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and the Supernatural on the American Screen write by Emanuel Lawrence Gebauer. This book was released on 1953. Religion and the Supernatural on the American Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Religion and the Supernatural on the American Screen
Religion and the Supernatural on the American Screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and the Supernatural on the American Screen write by Emanuel Lawrence Gebauer. This book was released on 1953. Religion and the Supernatural on the American Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sacred Terror
Sacred Terror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Terror write by Douglas E. Cowan. This book was released on 2016-04. Sacred Terror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sacred Terror examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to tell a scary story? In this lucid, provocative book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred places; of a change in the sacred order; of the supernatural gone out of control; of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead; of fanaticism; and of the power--and the powerlessness--of religion.
Television, Religion, and Supernatural
Television, Religion, and Supernatural - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Television, Religion, and Supernatural write by Erika Engstrom. This book was released on 2014-02-19. Television, Religion, and Supernatural available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the text of the CW network television series Supernatural, a program based in the horror genre that offers viewers myriad religious-based antagonists, through the portrayals of monsters which its two main characters “hunt” and destroy, as well as storylines based in the Bible. Even as the series’ producers claim a non-religious perspective, we contend that story arcs and outcomes of episodes actually forward a hegemonic portrayal of Christianity that portrays a good-versus-evil motif regarding the superiority of Christianity. The depiction of its protagonist brothers, Dean and Sam Winchester of Lawrence, Kansas, forwards a pro-American perspective to a more generalized fight against evil in contemporary times.
Age of Miracles: Religion and Screen Media in Postwar American Fiction
Age of Miracles: Religion and Screen Media in Postwar American Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Age of Miracles: Religion and Screen Media in Postwar American Fiction write by Cassandra Maria Nelson. This book was released on 2014. Age of Miracles: Religion and Screen Media in Postwar American Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This dissertation examines how four postwar American writers, whose lives and fiction reveal a serious and sustained interest in religion and religious belief, treat screen media in their work. More specifically, it argues that Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, and Don DeLillo constitute a group of writers who espouse various forms of Catholic or crypto-Catholic belief. By allowing these writers to take seriously certain pre-modern ideas about metaphysical reality--namely, the possible existence of an immaterial, supernatural realm that transcends the physical, sensible world--these belief systems may have made them more attuned to the seemingly immaterial and supernatural properties of screen media.
