Image and Likeness: Religious Visions in American Film Classics (Isaac Hecker Studies in Religion and American Culture) - Softcover

9780809132867: Image and Likeness: Religious Visions in American Film Classics (Isaac Hecker Studies in Religion and American Culture)

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ISBN 10: 0809132869 ISBN 13: 9780809132867

Publisher: Paulist Pr, 1991

Introduction 1 I Composition and Fundamental Attitudes 11 Comic Rhythm, Ambiguity, and Hope in City Lights 13 The Grapes of Wrath: The Poor You Always Have with You 21 High Noon: On the Uncertainty of Certainty 31 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Search for a Center 39 II Mythic Allusions and the Demonic Heart 47 Citizen Kane: Descent into the Demonic 49 Sunset Boulevard: Twilight of the Gods 56 The Godfather Films: Birth of a Don, Death of a Family 65 III Movement and Rebirth 77 The Wizard of Oz and Other Mythic Rites of Passage 79 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: Spiritual Quest and Studio Patriarchy 87 On the Waterfront: Rebirth of a "Contenduh" 96 The Art of "Seeing": Classical Paintings and Ben-Hur 104 IV Montage and Transforming Love 117 Love and Duty in Casablanca 119 Notorious: Penance as a Paradigm of Redemption 126 It's a Wonderful Life: Divine Benevolence and Love of Neighbor 135 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A Salvific Drama of Liberation 145 V Other Forms, Other Visions 153 It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934) 155 Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939) 155 Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) 156 The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940) 156 All the King's Men (Robert Rossen, 1949) 157 All About Eve (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1950) 158 The African Queen (John Huston, 1951) 158 Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952) 159 East of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955) 159 To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962) 160 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966) 161 Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) 161 Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969) 163 The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971) 164 Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill, 1972) 164 Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975) 165 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977, 1980) 166 Reds (Warren Beatty, 1981) 166 The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman, 1983) 167 Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986) 168 Appendix 171 About the Contributors 176 Notes 181 Index 196

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