TY - BOOK AU - May,John R. TI - New image of religious film T2 - Communication, culture & theology SN - 1556127618 AV - PN1995.9.R4 N48 1997 U1 - 791.43/682 21 PY - 1997/// CY - Kansas City, MO PB - Sheed & Ward KW - Religious films KW - History and criticism KW - Congresses KW - Motion pictures KW - Religious aspects N1 - Essays by participants of an international symposium held in 1993 at Villa Cavalletti in the Alban Hills south of Rome; Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-278) and index; Part 1 : Developments in criticism and interpretation -- Approaches to film criticism / Ambros Eichenberger -- Contemporary theories regarding the interpretation of religious film / John R. May -- Part 2 : The changing language of religious film -- The "religious" in film : from "King of kings" to "The fisher king" / Peter Hasenberg -- Jesus on our screens / Peter Malone -- The problem of evil in contemporary film / Reinhold Zwick -- Part 3 : Changes in religious consciousness -- The religious dimension in cinematic consciousness in postmodern culture / Sylvain De Bleeckere -- From Eve to the virgin and back again: the image of woman in contemporary (religious) film / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Part 4 : Theological reflection on religious film -- Toward a theological interpretation and reading of film: incarnation of the word of God, relation, image, word / Joseph Marty -- Theology, discernment and cinema / Michael Paul Gallagher -- Too beautiful to be untrue: toward a theology of film aesthetics / Marjeet Verbeek -- Part 5 : Developments in mass media studies -- Film education in a Christian perspective : some contemporary approaches / Henk Hoekstra -- The role of film in personal religious growth / Robert A. White -- A methodology for finding the filmmaker's Weltanschauung in religious film / Johan G. Hahn -- Part 6 : Religious film in the Third World -- India's cinema : home and world, the foci of religion / Ray Kancharla -- The religious film in Latin America / José Tavares de Barros -- Recent developments in the religious film in Africa / Franc̦ois Vokouma; Also issued online ER -