Table of contents for Film and religion : an introduction / Robert Torry and Paul V.M. Flesher.

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Contents
Acknowledgments . . . . . 00
Preface for Teachers . . . . . . 00
Introduction . . . . . . 00
Chapter 1: Christmas Films: The Search for Meaning . . . . . . 00
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1967)
SECTION ONE: Ultimate Destruction and the Cold War in the 1950s
Chapter 2: Religion, Science Fiction, and the Bomb . . . . 00
When Worlds Collide (1951)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Chapter 3: Making Rome Christian . . . 00
Quo Vadis (1951)
The Robe (1953)
Chapter 4: The Ten Commandments and America's Fight against Tyranny . . . 00
The Ten Commandments (1956)
SECTION TWO: Filming Jesus
Chapter 5: The Messiah of Peace . . . . . . . . . 00
King of Kings (1961)
Chapter 6: The Accidental Superstar . . . . . . . . 00
Jesus Christ, Superstar (1973)
Chapter 7: The Tormented Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Chapter 8: Violence and Redemption . . . . . . . . . 00
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
SECTION THREE: Varieties of Religion in American Film 
Chapter 9: The Devil: Screening Humanity's Enemy . . . . . . . . . 00
The Exorcist (1973)
The Omen (1976)
Chapter 10: God as Alien: Humanity's Helper . . . . . . . . . 00
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Chapter 11: Religion and Scandal, Crime and Innocence . . . . . . . . . 00
Agnes of God (1985)
The Apostle (1998)
Chapter 12: The Religion of Baseball . . . . . . . . . 00
The Natural (1984)
Field of Dreams (1989)
SECTION FOUR: World Religions in Film
Chapter 13: American Dharma . . . . . . . . . 00
Little Buddha (1993)
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
Chapter 14: Jewish Films: Finding the Path Between Torah and Modernity . . . . . . . . . 00
The Chosen (1982)
The Quarrel (1990)
Chapter 15: Islam and Fanaticism: Only in the Eye of the Beholder? . . . . . . . . . 00
Destiny (1997)
My Son the Fanatic (1997)
Appendix: Targum Neofiti to Genesis 2¿3 . . . . . . . . . 00
Filmography . . . . . . . . . 00

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Motion pictures -- Religious aspects.
Religious films -- History and criticism.