Catholics in the Movies

Catholics in the Movies
ISBN-10
0195306562
ISBN-13
9780195306569
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
362
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Colleen McDannell

Description

The common admission that "everything I know about religion I learned from the movies" is true for believers as much as for unbelievers. And at the movies, Catholicism is the American religion. As an intensely visual faith with a well-defined ritual and authority structure, Catholicism lends itself to the drama and pageantry of film. Beginning with the silent era of film and ending with movies today, eleven prominent scholars explore how Catholic characters, spaces, and rituals are represented in cinema.

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