Articles added to FilmandReligion.com in April 2016

In the month of April 2016 I added this 42 articles to FilmandReligion.com that discusses aspects of film/TV and religion. About half of them are from the last 12 months, but the rest is from the 1980’s

1. Allegory and Ambiguity in the Films of Majid Majidi: A Theodicy of Meaning by Cyrus Ali Zargar (2016-01)
2. “Can We Laugh at God?”: Apocalyptic Comedy in Film by Robert Lamm (1991-06)
3. The Catholic Imagination in Popular Film & Television by Ingrid Shafer (1991-08)
4. Doctor Who and Immortality: Influence of Christian and Buddhist Ethics by Leena Vuolteenaho (2015-12)
5. Eros and Contemplation: The Catholic Vision of Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder by Kathleen E. Urda (2016-01)
6. Examining the Critical Role American Popular Film Continues to Play in Maintaining the Muslim Terrorist Image, Post 9/11 by Rubina Ramji (2016-01)
7. Film and the Sacred by Joseph Cunneen (1993-04)
8. Filmed ‘Not During the Sabbath’: The Israeli Haredi Minority through the Camera’s Lens by Yohai Hakak (2016-03)
9. Films, Values, Absolutes: Why Theological Readings of Films are Morally and Politically Essential by Clive Marsh (2016-01)
10. God never dies’: Buñuel and Catholicism by Michael Wood (1993-02)
11. A God Who Plays it by Ear 5 Metaphors for God in Recent Films by Andrew Greeley (1991-08)
12. God’s Law and the Wide Screen: The Ten Commandments as Cold War “Epic” by Alan Nadel (1993-05)
13. God’s Middle Children Metaphysical Rebellion in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club by Justin Garrison (2013-08)
14. Hinduism and Its Others in Bollywood Film of the 2000s by Diana Dimitrova (2016-01)
15. Historical figures in film: the celluloid Christ by Sarah Noah (1993-05)
16. Historical Film and Hindu–Muslim Relations in Post-Hindutva India: The Case of Jodhaa Akbar by Raita Merivirta (2016-03)
17. Hollywood, Main Street, and the Church: Trying to Censor the Movies Before the Production Code by Francis G. Couvares (1992-12)
18. Impact of Television Advertisement on Consumer. Buying Behavior: The Moderating Role of. Religiosity in the context of Pakistan by Bushra Anjum, Attiya Irum (2015-12)
19. Jesus and the Movies by John Klukach (1991-02)
20. Jung and The Godfather movies : analyzing film from an archetypal perspective by Joseph Broda (1994-06)
21. “The Last Temptation of Christ” et l’« affaire » Scorsese by André Muraire (1992-05)
22. Mary Magdalene and the Politics of Public Memory: Interrogating The Da Vinci Code by Tammie M. Kennedy (2012-08)
23. Movie stars and Islamic moralism in Egypt by Lila Abu-Lughod (1995-04)
24. Nigerian Audiences’ Perception of Pentecostal Churches’ Ownership of Satellite Television Channels by Paul Martin Obayi, Ph.D and Ignatius Obiorah Edogor (2016-03)
25. Philippine Muslims on Screen: From Villains to Heroes by Vivienne Angeles (2016-01)
26. The Priests of Cyborg by Peter C. Reynolds (1993-07)
27. The Qur’anic Epic in Iranian Cinema by Nacim Pak-Shiraz (2016-01)
28. “Raiders of the Lost Ark”: Totem and Taboo by Andrew Gordon (1991-10)
29. Religious and National Identity in My Name is Khan by Kathleen M. Erndl (2016-01)
30. The religious dimension of cinematographical consciousness in postmodern culture by Sylvain De Bleeckere (1994-05)
31. Rewriting God’s Plot: Ingmar Bergmann and Feminine Narrative by Mark B. Sandberg (1991-11)
32. The Rise and Fall of American Televangelism by Jeffrey K. Hadden (1993-05)
33. Sacred Women in Coptic Cinema: Between Faith and Resistance by Lise Paulsen Galal (2009-04)
34. SDA Youth and the Movies: An Analysis of the Church’s Current Message by Brenda Keller (1993-04)
35. The Seal of the Confessional: Robert Lepage’s Le Confessionnal in Social and Cultural Context by Adele Reinhartz (2016-01)
36. The spoken and unspoken nature of child abuse in the miniseries Devil’s Playground: The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the Catholic Church and television drama in Australia by Terrie Waddell, Timothy W Jones (2016-03)
37. Star Trek Fandom as a Religious Phenomenon by Michael Jindra (1994-06)
38. Televising religion: A study of Sathya Sai Baba’s funeral broadcast in Gangtok, India by Manoj Kumar Das (2015-12)
39. Television and Evangelism: A Cautionary Tale by Angela Tilby (1991-06)
40. Time the Redeemer: Time as an Object of Cinema in a Post-Metaphysical Age by Greg Watkins (2016-01)
41. Tracking the Fallen Apple: Ineffability, Religious Tropes, and Existential Despair in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia by Joseph Kickasola (2016-01)
42. Watching Movies in the Name of the Lord: Thoughts on Analyzing Christian Film Criticism by James Y. Trammell (2012-08)