Missionaries in the Golden Age of Hollywood: Race, Gender, and Spirituality on the Big Screen

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Douglas Carl Abrams

Missionaries in the Golden Age of Hollywood

Race, Gender, and Spirituality on the Big Screen

Douglas Carl Abrams

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Palgrave Macmillan
16 December 2023

Film theory & criticism; History: earliest times to present day; Social & cultural history; History of religion

Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media

This book examines major British and American missionary films during the Golden Age of Hollywood to explore the significance of race, gender, and spirituality in relation to the lives of the missionaries portrayed in film during the middle third of the twentieth century. Film both influences and reflects culture, and racial, gender, and religious identities are some of the most debated issues globally today. In the movies explored in this book, missionary interactions with various people groups reflect the historical changes which took place during this time.

By: Douglas Carl Abrams
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2023 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 354g
ISBN: 9783031191664
ISBN 10: 3031191668
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 16 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction.- 2. Racist Casting, Interracial Attraction and Primitivism.- 3. Progress in Race Since 1945.- 4. Maintaining Masculinity.- 5. Traditional and Independent Women.- 6. Earthly Kingdom and Spiritual Kingdom.- 7. Class and Hierarchy.- 8. Social Christianity and Evangelism.- 9. Suffering and Apostasy.-

Douglas Carl Abrams is Professor of History at Bob Jones University, USA.

Reviews for Missionaries in the Golden Age of Hollywood: Race, Gender, and Spirituality on the Big Screen

“Abrams articulates clearly is that the movies of the mid-twentieth century decades accurately reflected the real-life role of foreign missions in expanding the horizons of the average American … . Abrams is well read in scholarship on missionaries, and successfully integrates his findings with the latest books and articles in the field. Missionaries in the golden age of Hollywood … gives us the most comprehensive account we have of missionaries as characters in commercial films.” (David A. Hollinger, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 75 (1), January, 2024) “This year 2023, this lover of France has released another very valuable piece of research related to the same fields (mass culture and US Evangelicalism). It is Missionaries in the Golden Age of Hollywood, Race, Gender, and Spirituality on the Big Screen … . Congrats and thank you Douglas Carl Abrams.” (French Windows, frenchwindows.hautetfort.com, December 28, 2023)