Religious Studies 399.01 September 1999
Religion and Popular Culture: Watching Film Religiously

Anne Moore and Kathleen O’Grady

 

To read for Class 1 (Introduction and "Pleasantville"):

  1. Virginia Woolf, "The Cinema (1926)", http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy/files/paper.woolf.html (First published in Arts, June 1926; 4 pp. total).
  2. Judy Gerstel, "The Hollywood Gospel", Toronto Star, Sunday November 15, 1998, Section F, p.1 and p.7 (2 pp. total).
  3. Ambros Eichenberger, "Approaches to Film Criticism" in John R. May, (ed.), New Image of Religious Film. Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1997, pp. 3-16 (12 pp. Out of 294) 1-55612-761-8
  4. Timothy Corrigan, A Short Guide to Writing About Film, 2nd Edition. New York: HarperCollins, 1994, pp. 10-12, 16-23, 30-32 and 86-97 (14 pp. Out of 190). 0-673-52299-7
  5. David Browne, "Film, Movies, Meanings", in Clive Marsh and Gaye Oritz (eds), Explorations in Theology and Film. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, pp. 9-19 (11 pp. Out of 286). 0-631-20356-7
  6. Linwood Urban, "The Fall and Original Sin", in A Short History of Christian Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 125-129 (5 pp. Out of 461). 0-19-5-9348-8
  7. Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing and Valarie H. Ziegler (eds), Eve and Adam. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999, pp. 15-40 and pp. 69-73 (20 pp. Out of 515). 0-253-21271-5
  8. Serinity Young (ed.), An Anthology of Sacred Texts By and About Women. New York: Crossroads, 1993, pp. 46, 62-63, 68-69, 79-80, 85-86 (9 pp. Out of 452). 0-8245-1418-1
  9. Outline of "Pleasantville", in Sight and Sound 9, 3, March 1999, pp. 49-50 (2 pp. total). 0037-4806

    10. To be read for Class 2 ("Blade Runner"):
  10. Janice Hocker Rushing and Thomas S. Frentz, "The Intellectual Landscape" in Projecting the Shadow: The Cyborg Hero in American Film. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 11-27 (17 pp. Out of 261). 0-226-73167-7
  11. Stephen D. O’Leary, "Apocalypticism in American Popular Culture", in Stephen J. Stein (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism. New York: Continuum, 1998, pp. 392-424 (33 pp. Out of 498l). 0-8264-1073-1
  12. Rennie B. Schoepflin, "Apocalypse in an Age of Science", in Stephen J. Stein (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism. New York: Continuum, 1998, pp. 427-441 (15 pp. Out of 498). 0-8264-1073-1
  13. Alex Burns, "Will Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", 21-C Scanning the Future, #1, 1997, pp. 22-7, ISSN 1035-6754.
  14. Brunner, E. "Modern Technology as an Expression of Rebellion", in Fredrick J. Charles et. al. (eds). Ways of Being Religious: Readings for a New Approach to Religion. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1973 pp. 531-41 (10 pp. Out of 627). 0-13-949277-5
  15. Kolb, William M., "Blade Runner: Film Notes", in Judith B. Kerman (ed.), Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1991 pp. 154-77 (22 pp. out of 291 0-8792-509-5
  16. Robert F. Arnold, "Termination or Transformation?", in Film Quarterly 52, 1, Fall 1998, pp. 20-30 (11 pp. total). 0146-0013

    17. To be read for Class 3 ("Babette's Feast"):
  17. Amy Michaels, "Babette’s Feast", http://www.sunsite.auc.dk/recipes/englishy/cat110.html (1p. total).
  18. Anonymous, "Moderation in Food", in John Miller and Benedict Cosgrove (eds), Gluttony: Ample Tales of Epicurean Excess. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996, pp. 14-22 (9 pp. Out of 131). 0-8118-1269-3
  19. Ben Jonson, "Hymn to the Belly", in John Miller and Benedict Cosgrove (eds), Gluttony: Ample Tales of Epicurean Excess. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996, pp. 73-74 (2 pp. Out of 131). 0-8118-1269-3
  20. Lynda Sexon, "Salt Cakes: Eating Dreams, Love, and God", in Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion Number 10, pp. 98-113 (16 pp. total).
  21. Outline of Babette’s Feast. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0092603#comment
  22. Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991, pp. 65-93 (pp. 29 out of 230). 0-231-07157-4

    23. To be read for Class 4 ("Antonia's Line" and "Before the Rain"):
  23. John E. Atwell, Schopenhauer: The Human Character. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990, pp. 165-204 (40 pp. Out of 256). 0-87722-748-9
  24. Proverbs 31 in Wayne A. Meeks et al. (eds.), The HarperCollins Study Bible. New York: HarperCollins, 1989, pp. 984-985 (2 pp. total). 0-06-065580-1
  25. Ecclesiastes 1 –3 in Wayne A. Meeks et al. (eds.), The HarperCollins Study Bible. New York: HarperCollins, 1989, pp. 986-991 (6 pp. total). 0-06-065580-1
  26. Antonia’s Line Film Outline, in Sight and Sound 9, 9, September 1996, pp. 34-35 (2 pp. total). 0037-4806
  27. Slavenka Drakulic, The Balkan Express. New York: Harper Collins, 1993, pp. 5-16 and 147-150 (16 pp. Out of 165). 0-06-097608-X.
  28. A. G., "Belgrade Underground", in Harpers August 1999, pp. 15-19 (5 pp. total) 0017-789X
  29. Before the Rain Outline, in Sight and Sound 5, 5, May 1995, p. 38. (1 p. total) 0037-4806

    30. To be read for Final Class ("Alien"):
  30. Barbara Creed, "Kristeva, Femininity, Abjection", in The Monstrous-Feminine. New York: Routledge, 1993, pp. 8-15 (8 pp. Out of 182). 0-415-05259-9
  31. Sigmund Freud, "The Uncanny" in James Strachey (ed.), The Penguin Freud Library, Volume 14, Art and Literature. New York: Penguin, 1962, pp. 339-347 (9 pp. Out of 496). 0-14-013804-8.