Protestants on Screen: Religion, Politics and Aesthetics in European and American Movies

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Gastón Espinosa (Department Chair and Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religious Studies, Department Chair and Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religious Studies, Claremont McKenna College) Erik Redling (Professor of American Literature and Culture, Professor of American Literature and Culture, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)

Protestants on Screen

Religion, Politics and Aesthetics in European and American Movies

Gastón Espinosa (Department Chair and Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religious Studies, Department Chair and Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religious Studies, Claremont McKenna College), Erik Redling (Professor of American Literature and Culture, Professor of American Literature and Culture, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), Jason Stevens (Independent Scholar, Independent Scholar)

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Oxford University Press Inc
08 November 2023

Films, movies & cinema; Interdisciplinary studies; Protestantism & Protestant Churches; Christian life & practice

Protestants on Screen explores the Protestant contributions to American and European film from the silent era to the present day. The authors analyze how Protestant filmmakers, beliefs, theology, symbols, sensibilities, and cultural patterns have shaped the history of film. Challenging the stereotype of Protestants as world-denouncing-and-defying puritans and iconoclasts who stood in the way of film's maturation as an art, the authors contend that Protestants were among the key catalysts in the origins and development of film, bringing an identifiably Protestant aesthetic to the medium. The essays in this volume track key Protestant themes like faith and doubt, sin and depravity, biblical literalism, personal conversion and personal redemption, holiness and sanctification, moralism and pietism, Providence and secularism, apocalypticism, righteousness and justice, religion and race, the priesthood of all believers and its offshoots-democratization and individualism. Protestants, the essays in this volume demonstrate, helped birth and shape the film industry and harness the power of motion pictures for spiritual instruction, edification, and cultural influence.

Edited by: Gastón Espinosa (Department Chair and Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religious Studies Department Chair and Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religious Studies Claremont McKenna College), Erik Redling (Professor of American Literature and Culture, Professor of American Literature and Culture, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), Jason Stevens (Independent Scholar, Independent Scholar)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 156mm, Width: 235mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780190058906
ISBN 10: 0190058900
Pages: 426
Publication Date: 08 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gastón Espinosa is Department Chair and the Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College. Erik Redling is Professor of American Literature and Culture and Managing Director of the Muhlenberg Center for American Studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Jason Stevens has taught at Harvard University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and he has been a fellow of the National Humanities Center (Durham, NC) and the University of Pittsburgh, (Humanities Center).

Reviews for Protestants on Screen: Religion, Politics and Aesthetics in European and American Movies

While Roman Catholicism's influence on film is well known, the corresponding influence of Protestantism is frequently ignored. This volume remedies that through attention to the ways in which Protestant themes and representation are expressed in films, as well as how Protestant filmmakers and audiences have contributed to the art form and its reception. A must read for anyone interested in the multiple ways in which Protestantism and film have interacted over the last century! * John Lyden, Blizek Professor of Religion and Film, University of Nebraska Omaha * In Protestants on Screen, an impressive transatlantic group of scholars offers engaging insights into the pivotal role of diverse Protestants groups have played in challenging, reforming, and promoting the film industry. Blending history and case studies, this volume advances the scholarship of religion and film and furnishes an indispensable foundation for future study. * Terry Lindvall, C. S. Lewis Professor of Communication and Christian Thought, Virginia Wesleyan University *