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{en} Margaret R. Miles. Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1996.

Abstract

"Explores what popular films of the 1980s and 1990s say about religion and the values by which we live."--

Contents

pt. I: Religion in popular film -- Moving shadows: religion and film as cultural products -- "Were you there when they crucified my Lord?" -- The last temptation of Christ -- Jesus of Montreal -- Seeing (as if) with our own eyes -- The mission -- Romero -- Not without my other: representing Islam and Judaism in a dominantly Christian society -- Not without my daughter -- The chosen -- Chariots of fire -- There is a bomb in Gilead: Christian fundamentalism in popular film -- The handmaid's tale -- The rapture -- pt. 2: Race, gender, sexuality, and class in popular film -- "Older, wiser, stronger": representation and self-representation -- The long walk home -- Daughters of the dust -- Good clean fun: Love in popular film -- Thelma and Louise -- The Piano -- Bodies, pleasures, and pains -- Jungle fever -- Paris is burning -- What you see is what you get: religion and values in movies.

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