Bibliography
- Film, Faith, and Popular Culture - A BibliographyA bibliography compiled by by Gordon Matties, Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Theology at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
If Mount Union does not own a particular item from this list, you can submit a request through OhioLINK or Interlibrary Loan (ILL) to borrow a copy.
- OhioLINK Library Catalog
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- SearchOhio Catalog
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Part of your film analysis paper will require you to consider the historical and cultural contexts of both the story in the film and the time period in which the film was made. It will likely be easier starting in the book catalog for these questions than in the databases, as books and ebooks tend to offer deeper background and cover more topics than a scholarly article, which is usually more focused on one topic or question, might provide.
The Story in the Film
- What background information would be important to know in order to understand this film better?
- What topics or ideas or events would help the viewer to “get” this film and its meaning?
Creating the Film
- What was going on in the culture or in the world more broadly when this movie was made?
- How is the film critiquing or challenging or posing questions to that culture or to humanity generally?
- Does the film ask a question and, if so, how does it answer it?
- Does it seem to push a particular agenda?
Books
Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-creation of the World by Call Number: 791.43682 P716r2ISBN: 0231176740Publication Date: 2017-09-05
The Bloomsbury Companion to Religion and Film by Call Number: 791.43682 B655bISBN: 9781441107961Publication Date: 2013-03-14
Film, Lacan and the Subject of Religion: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Religious Film Analysis by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781441133151Publication Date: 2011-12-22
Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular American Film by Call Number: 791.43682 S433mISBN: 0813388295Publication Date: 1995-04-09
Movies and Midrash: Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781438466156Publication Date: 2017-09-01
Catholic Literature and Film : Incarnational Love and Suffering by Call Number: eBookISBN: 1498541666Publication Date: 2016-11-21
