TY - GEN AU - Martin,Joel W. AU - Ostwalt,Conrad Eugene TI - Screening the sacred: religion, myth, and ideology in popular American film PY - 1995/// CY - Boulder PB - Westview Press KW - Religious aspects KW - Motion pictures N1 - E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: seeing the sacred on the screen / Joel W. Martin -- Shall these bones live? The Problem of bodies in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Joel Coen's Blood simple / Larry E. Grimes -- Angels in the primum mobile: dimensions of the sacred in William Kennedy's Ironweed, novel and film / Ted L Estess -- The Christian allegorical structure of Platoon / Avent Childress Beck -- Hollywood and Armageddon: apocalyptic themes in recent cinematic presentation / Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr. -- Star wars: a myth for our time / Andrew Gordon -- With eyes uplifted: space aliens as sky gods / Caron Schwartz Ellis -- Evolution of "The New frontier" in Alien and Aliens: patriarchal co-optation of the feminine archetype / Janice Hocker Rushing -- Redeeming America: Rocky as ritual racial drama / Joel W. Martin -- From revelation to dream: allegory in David Lynch's Blue velvet / Elizabeth McLemore -- Women spoken for: images of displaced desire / Irena Makarushka -- Conclusion: religion, film, and cultural analysis / Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb07707 ER -