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Beautiful light : religious meaning in film /

Though "religious" films usually don't get much respect in Hollywood, religion still regularly finds its way into the movies. In Beautiful Light Roy Anker seeks out the often unnoticed connections between film and religion and shows how even films that aren't overtly religious or...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anker, Roy M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : Through wonder to veneration
  • "Not all angels have wings" : wonder, light and love in M. Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake
  • And the blind shall see : grasping the radiance of being in The Color of Paradise
  • The education of a one-man preaching machine : the realization of love in The Apostle
  • Love's pure light : moral light and reconciliation in Dead Man Walking
  • When hope breaks out : love and redemption in The Shawshank Redemption
  • "It's take me so long to find you" : search and rescue in Paul Schrader's American Gigolo
  • "How high can I fly?" : murder and sacramental ascent in Tom Tykwer's Heaven
  • "It can happen" : frogs, deliverance, and reconciliation in P.T. Anderson's Magnolia
  • "The glory smiling through" : wonder and beauty in The Thin Red Line."