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Introductory Film Studies and Theory

Bazin, A. What is Cinema 1 & 2. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Bordwell, David, and K. Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction. New York: McGraw Hill, 2008.

Bordwell, David. Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema. Harvard University Press, 1989.

Bordwell, David. On the History of Film Style. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Braudy, L., and M. Cohen eds. Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Feury, Patrick. New Developments in Film Theory. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2000.

Kracauer, S. Theory of Film. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.

Mitry, J. The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Monaco, James. How to Read a Film: The Art, Technology, Language, History, and Theory of Film and Media. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Tarkovsky, A. Sculpting in Time. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989.

Turner, Graeme. Film as Social Practice. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.

Religion and Film

Arthur, Chris. Religion and the Media. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1993.

Butler, Ivan. Religion in the Cinema. New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1969.

Comstock, W. Richard. "Religious Transcendence and the Horizons of Culture: Observations on the Role of Religion in American Film." Revue Francaise d'Etudes Americaines. 6/12, 1981: 275-289.

Dodaro, Robert and John Paul Szura. Theology and Mass Communication. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1997.

Ewen, Stuart. All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

Flesher, Paul V. M. and Robert Torry, Film and Religion: An Introduction. Nashville: Abingdon, 2007.

Forbes, Bruce David and Jeffrey H. Mahan. Religion and Popular Culture in America. Berkley: University of California Press, 2000.

Freccero, Carla. Popular Culture: An Introduction. New York: New York University Press, 1999.

Lyden, John. Film as Religion: Myths, Morals, Rituals. New York: New York University Press, 2003.

Mahan, Jeffrey and Bruce David Forbes. Religion and Popular Culture in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Martin, Thomas M. Images and the Imageless: A Study in Religious Consciousness and Film. London: Associated University Presses, 1981.

May, John R., editor. Image and Likeness: Religious Visions in American Film Classics. New York: Paulist Press, 1991.

May, John R., ed. New Image of Religious Film. Kansas City, MO: Sheed & Ward, 1997.

May, John R. and Michael Bird, eds. Religion in Film. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 1982.

Mazur, Eric Michael and Kate McCarthy, eds. God in the Details: American Religion in Popular Culture. Routledge, 2000.

McDannell, Colleen. Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Miles, Margaret. Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

Mitchell, Jolyon, and Sophia Marriage. Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion, and Culture. London ; New York : T&T Clark, 2003.

Mitchell, Jolyon and Brent S. Plate, eds. Religion and Film: The Reader. New York & London: Routledge, 2007.

Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Methuen, 1982.

Plate, S. Brent, editor. Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Ryan, Michael and Douglas Kellner. Camera Politica: the Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.

Savary, Louis and J. Paul Carrico, ed. Contemporary Film and the New Generation. New York: Association Press, 1971.

Sharrett, Christopher, ed. Crisis Cinema: The Apocalyptic Idea in Postmodern Narrative Film. Washington: Maisonneuve Press, 1993.

Stout, Daniel A. and Buddenbaum, Judith M. Religion and Mass Media - Audiences and Adaptations. London: Sage, 1996.

Warren, Michael. Seeing Through Media: A Religious View of Communications and Cultural Analysis. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity, 1997.

Wright, Melanie J. Religion and Film: An Introduction. London: Tauris, 2007.

Theology and Film

Aichele, George, ed. Culture, Entertainment and the Bible. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.

Aichele, George and Richard Walsh, eds. Screening Scripture: Intertextual Connections Between Scripture and Film. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002.

Anker, Roy M. Catching Light: Looking for God in the Movies. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.

Babington, B. and P. W. Evans. Biblical Epics: Sacred Narrative in Hollywood Cinema. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993.

Bach, Alice, ed. Biblical Glamour and Hollywood Glitz. Semeia 74 (1996).

Bandy, Mary Lea and Antonio Monda, editors. The Hidden God: Film and Faith. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2003.

Barsotti, Catherine M and Robert K. Johnston. Finding God in the Movies: 33 Films of Reel Faith. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004.

Baugh, Lloyd. Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ Figures in Film. Kansas City, MO: Sheed & Ward, 1997.

Bazin, Andre. "Cinema and theology." Plays, Movies, and Critics. Ed. Jody McAuliffe, Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.

Beavis, Mary Ann. "'Angels Carrying Savage Weapons': Uses of the Bible in Contemporary Horror Films." Journal of Religion and Film. 7 (2)

Blake, Richard Aloysius. "Ingmar Bergman's Post-Christian God: Silent, Absent, and Female." Religion and the Arts. (1) 1997: 27-45.

Blake, R. A. Screening America: Reflections on Five Classic Films. New York: Paulist, 1991.

Blake, R.A. Woody Allen: Profane and Sacred. Scarecrow Press, 1995.

Blake, R.A. Afterimage: The Indelible Catholic Imagination of Six American Filmmakers. Chicago: Loyola, 2000.

Bliss, Michael. The Word Made Flesh: Catholicism and Conflict in the Films of Martin Scorsese. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1995.

Billingsley, K. L. The Seductive Image: A Christian Critique of the World of Film. Westchester, IL: Crossway, 1989.

Boer, Roland. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: The Hebrew Bible and Cultural Criticism. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Cambell, Richard. The Bible on Film: A Checklist, 1897-1980. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1981

Clarke, Anthony J. and Paul S. Fiddes, eds. Flickering Images: Theology and Film in Dialogue. Oxford: Smyth & Helwys, 2005.

Christianson, Eric S., Peter Francis, and William R. Telford, eds. Cinéma Divinité: Religion, Theology and the Bible in Film. London: SCM Press, 2005.

Cobb, Kelton. The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

Cooper, John C. and Carl Skrade. Celluloid and Symbols. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1970.

Cunneen, Joseph. Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style in Film. London & New York: Continuum, 2003.

Cunningham, David S. Reading is Believing: The Christian Faith through Literature and Film. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2002.

Deacy, Christopher. Faith in Film: Religious Themes in Contemporary Cinema. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.

Detweiler, Craig and Barry Taylor. A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003.

Dorsky, Nathaniel. Devotional Cinema. Berkeley: Tuumba Press, 2005.

Drew, Donald J. Images of Man: A Critique of Contemporary Cinema. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1974.

Dyrness, William A. Visual Faith: Art, Theology, and Worship in Dialogue. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2001.

Elley, D. The Epic Film: Myth and History. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984.

Ellul, Jacques. The Humiliation of the Word. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1985.

Exum, J. Chery. Plotted, Shot, and Painted: Cultural Representations of Biblical Women. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996.

Exum, J. Cheryl, ed. The Bible and Film; The Bible in Film. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Fraser, Peter. Images of the Passion: The Sacramental Mode in Film. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998.

Fraser, Peter and Vernon Edwin Neal. Reviewing the Movies : A Christian Response to Contemporary Film. Focal Point Series. Crossway Books, 2000.

Garbowski, Christopher. Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Decalogue Series: The Problem of the Protagonists and Their Self-Transcendence. New York: CUP/Eastern European Monographs, 1996.

Garrett, Greg. The Gospel According to Hollywood. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007.

Gervais, Marc. Ingmar Bergman: Magician and Prophet. Montreal: McGill University Press, 1999.

Grace, Pamela. "Gospel truth? From Cecil B. DeMille to Nicholas Ray." A Companion To Literature and Film ed. R. Stam, A. Raengo. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

Hurley, N. P. Theology through Film. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

Hurley, N.P. The Reel Revolution: A Film Primer on Liberation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1978.

Hulsether, Mark. "Sorting Out the Relationships Among Christian Values, US Popular Religion, and Hollywood Films." Religious Studies Review 25 (1999): 3-11.

Jewett, Robert. Saint Paul at the Movies: The Apostle’s Dialogue with American Culture. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.

Jewett, Robert. Saint Paul Returns to the Movies: Triumph Over Shame. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

Johnston, Robert K. Reel Spirituality : Theology and Film in Dialogue. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2006.

Johnston, Robert K. Useless Beauty: Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Contemporary Film. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2004.

Kahle, Roger and Robert E. A. Lee. Popcorn and Parable: A New Look at the Movies. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg, 1971.

Ketcham, Charles B. The Influence of Existentialism on Ingmar Bergman: An Analysis of the Theological Ideas Shaping a Filmmakers's Art. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1986.

Kickasola, Joe. The Films of Krzyszstof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image. New York: Continuum, 2004.

Kozlovic, Anton Karl. "Hollywood Hermeneutics: A Religion-and-Film Genre for the 21st Century." Film Journal, 1/11, 2005

Kozlovic, Anton Karl. "Sacred cinema: Exploring Christian sensibilities within popular Hollywood films." Journal of Beliefs & Values, 28(2), 2007: 195-208.

Kreitzer, Larry J. The Old Testament in Fiction and Film: On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

Kreitzer, Larry J. The New Testament in Fiction and Film: On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993.

Kreitzer, Larry J. Pauline Images in Fiction & Film: On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

Kreitzer, Larry J. Gospel Images in Fiction and Film: On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.

Lang, J. Stephen. The Bible on the Big Screen : A Guide from Silent Films to Today's Movies. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007.

Leonard, Richard, S.J. Movies that Matter: Reading Film through the Lens of Faith. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2006.

Loughlin, Gerald. “Seeing in the Dark: Plato’s Cinema and Christ’s Cave,” Studies in Christian Ethics 13/1 (2000) 33-48.

Loughlin, Gerald. Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

Lawrence, John Shelton and Robert Jewett. The Myth of the American Superhero. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002.

Lindvall, Terry. The Silents of God: Selected Issues and Documents in Silent American Film and Religion 1903-1925. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001.

Lynch, Gordon. Understanding Theology and Popular Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

Malone, P. Through a Catholic Lens: Religious Perspectives of 19 Film Directors from Around the World. Rowan & Littlefield, 2007.

Marsh, Clive and Gaye W. Ortiz, eds. Explorations in Theology and Film: Movies and Meaning. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.

Marsh, Clive and Gaye W. Ortiz. Theology and Film: Challenging the Sacred/SecularDivide. Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.

Marsh, Clive. Cinema and Sentiment: Film’s Challenge to Theology. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2004.

Marsh, Clive. Theology Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Critical Christian Thinking. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Martens, John W. The End of The World: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Film and Television. Winnipeg: Shillingford Publishing, 2003.

Martin, Joel W. and Conrad E. Ostwalt, Jr., eds. Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular Film. San Francisco: Westview Press, 1995.

May, John R. Nourishing Faith Through Fiction: Reflections of the Apostles' Creed in Literature and Film. Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, 2001.

May, John R. "Close Encounters: Hollywood and Religion After a Century." Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion 20 (1998): 72-78

McDonogh, Gary, and Wong, Cindy Hing-yuk. "Religion and Representation in the Filmic South." Images of the South: Constructing a Regional Culture on Film and Video. ed. Karl G. Heider, editor. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993.

Miles, Margaret R. Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture. Boston: Beacon, 1985.

Moses, Gavriel "The Bible as cultural object(s) in cinema." A Companion to Literature and Film. Ed. by R. Stam and A. Raengo. Oxford: Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Neely, Alan. “Images: Mission and Missionaries in Contemporary Fiction and Cinema,” Missiology 24/4 (1996) 451-78.

Newport, John. Theology and Contemporary Art Forms. Waco: Word Books, 1971.

Oropeza, B. J., ed. The Gospel According to Superheroes. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.

Overstreet, Jeffrey. Through a Screen Darkly: Looking Closer at Beauty, Truth and Evil in the Movies. Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 2007.

Paffenroth, Kim. Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2006.

Paietta, Ann Catherine. Saints, Clergy, and Other Religious Figures on Film and Television. Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 2005.

Plate, S. Brent and David Jasper, eds. Imagining Otherness: Filmic Visions of Living Together. Oxford: American Academy of Religion, 1999.

Porter, Jennifer E. and Darcee L. McLaren, ed. Star Trek and Sacred Ground : Explorations of Star Trek, Religion, and American Culture. New York: State University of New York, 1999.

Presler, Titus Leonard. “At Play in the Fields of Missiology: Quincentennial Faces of Mission in the Films of Popular Culture,” Missiology 24/4 (1996) 479-91.

Reinhartz, Adele. Scripture on the Silver Screen. Louisville: Westminster, 2003.

Reinhartz, Adele. Jesus of Hollywood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Romanowski, William D. Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture. Revised and Expanded Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2007.

Romanowski, William D. “John Calvin Meets the Creature from the Black Lagoon: The Christian Reformed Church at the Movies 1928-1966,” Christian Scholar’s Review 25/1 (1995) 47-62.

Rosenberg, Joel. “What the Bible and Old Movies Have in Common,” Biblical Interpretation 6 (1998) 266-291.

Runions, Erin. How Hysterical: Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Ryan, Judylyn S. Spirituality as Ideology in Black Women's Film and Literature. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005.

Sanders, Teresa. Celluloid Saints: Images of Sanctity in Film. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2002.

Scott, Bernard Brandon. Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1994.

Schultze, Quentin J. Communicating for Life: Christian Stewardship in Community and Media. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000.

Sheen, Erica. “’The Light of God’s Law’: Violence and Metaphysics in the ‘50s Widescreen Biblical Epic,” Biblical Interpretation 6 (1998) 292-312.

Sison, Antonio D. Screening Schillebeeckx: Theology and Third Cinema in Dialogue. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Stephens, Mitchell. The Rise of the Image the Fall of the Word. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Telford, William R. “The New Testament in Fiction and Film: A Biblical Scholar’s Perspective,” in Words Remembered, Texts Renewed: Essays in Honour of John F. A. Sawyer. ed. G. Harvey, W.Watson, and J. Davies. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer, ed. Everyday Theology: How to Read Cultural Texts and Interpret Trends. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2007.

Vaux, Sara Anson. Finding Meaning at the Movies. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1999.

Viladesau, Richard. Theological Aesthetics: God in Imagination, Beauty, and Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Vollmer, Ulrike. “I Will Not Let You Go Unless You Teach Me the Tango: Sally Potter’s The Tango Lesson,” Biblical Interpretation 11/1 (2003) 98-112.

Vollmer, Ulrike. Seeing Film and Reading Feminist Theology: A Dialogue. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Voytilla, Stuart. Myth and the Movies. Studio City, CA: Michael Wise Productions, 1999.

Wall, James M. Church and Cinema: A Way of Viewing Film. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1971.

Walsh, Frank. Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

Walsh, Richard. Finding St. Paul in Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.

Ward, Graham, ed. Film and Religion. Issue of: Literature and Theology 12/1 (1998).

Watkins, Greg "Seeing and Being Seen: Distinctively Filmic & Religious Elements in Film." Journal of Religion and Film (3) 2 October 1999.