30 recent articles from the Journal of Religion & Film

I just added the abstract of 30 recent  articles from  the Journal of Religion & Film to the site. From issues Volume 18, Issue 1 (2014), Volume 17, Issue 2 (2013), Volume 16, Issue 1 (2012) and Volume 15, Issue 2 (2011).

– Closing the Loop: “The Promise and Threat of the Sacred” in Rian Johnson’s Looper by Brian W. Nail
– Plato’s Watermelon: Art and Illusion in The Brothers Bloom by David L. Smith
– Filming Reconciliation: Affect and Nostalgia in The Tree of Life by M. Gail Hamner
– “Love, What Have You Done to Me?” Eros and agape in Alfred Hitchcock’s I Confess by Catherine M. O’Brien
– The Holy Fool in Late Tarkovsky by Robert O. Efird
– Preaching in the Darkness: The Night of the Hunter’s Subversion of Patriarchal Christianity and Classical Cinema by Carl Laamanen
– Musical Rebirth in Fearless and The Truman Show by Erik Heine
– The Virgin Mary on Screen: Mater Dei or Just a Mother in Guido Chiesa’s Io Sono con Te (I Am with You) by Timothy J. Johnson and Barbara Ottaviani-Jones
– Transitional Violence in King of New York by Soren G. Palmer
– Woman Becomes Goddess in Bollywood: Justice, Violence, and the Feminine in Popular Hindi Film by Kathleen M. Erndl
– Fire, Water and The Goddess: The Films of Deepa Mehta and Satyajit Ray as Critiques of Hindu Patriarchy by David F. Burton
– Love that Tames: Anti-Heroes, Power and Islamic Reform Reflected in Two Iranian Films by David Sander
– With An Eye On A Set Of New Eyes: Beasts of the Southern Wild by Kette Thomas
– Exploring Orthodox Jewish Masculinities with Eyes Wide Open by Stefanie Knauss
– Go with Peace Jamil – Affirmation and Challenge of the Image of the Muslim Man by Sofia Sjo
– Of Men, Roles and Rules: Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam by Davide Zordan
– Inception and Ibn ‘Arabi by Oludamini Ogunnaike
– Menstruation as Heroine’s Journey in Pan’s Labyrinth by Richard Lindsay
– Scapegoats and Redemption on Shutter Island by Cari Myers
– There’s No Place Like Home: From Oz to Antichrist by J. Sage Elwell
– Irruptions of the Sacred in a “World of Shit”: Profanity, Sacred Words, and Cinematic Hierophanies in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987) by Joseph E. Bisson
– King of Masks: The Myth of Miao-shan and the Empowerment of Women by Kevin Dodd
– Ironic Faith in Monty Python’s Life of Brian by Steven A. Benko
– Angels in the Metroplex: Hegel, the Apocrypha, and Intertextuality in Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire) by Carrol Fry
– Desiring Oedipus in Stephen Frears’s The Grifters by Melissa Tanti
– Majid Majidi and Baran: Iranian Cinematic Poetics and the Spiritual Poverty of Rumi by Michael Pittman
– Walt Kowalski A Christ-Figure? Christic Resonances in Gran Torino by Diane Corkery
– Job of Suburbia? A Serious Man and Viewer Perceptions of the Biblical by David Tollerton
– A Serious Man by Norman M. Cohen
– Fourth Biennial VisionMaker Film Festival Report by John C. Lyden