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- Title
- Film As Religion : Myths, Morals, and Rituals
- Author
- Lyden, John C.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1479811998
- ISBN 13
- 9781479811991
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture
The first edition of Film as Religion was one of the first texts to develop a framework for the analysis of the religious function of films for audiences. Like more formal religious institutions, films can provide us with ways to view the world and the values to confront it. Lyden argues that the cultural influence of films is analogous to that of religions, so that films can be understood as representing a “religious” worldview in their own right.
Thoroughly updating his examples, Lyden examines a range of film genres and individual films, from The Godfather to The Hunger Games to Frozen, to show how film can function religiously.
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About the Author
John C. Lyden is the Liberal Arts Core Director and Professor of Liberal Arts at Grand View University. He is the author of Film as Religion, Second Edition: Myths, Morals, and Rituals (NYU Press 2019), and the editor of the Journal of Religion & Film as well as the Routledge Companion to Religion
and Film, among other books.
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