RESOURCE BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR EXPLORING
LINKS BETWEEN THEOLOGY, CINEMA
AND POPULAR CULTURE
BOOKS
Aichele,
G & Walsh, R Screening Scripture: Intertextual connections between
scripture and
film, Trinity Press, Harrisburg, 2002
Anker, RM, Catching Light – Looking for God in the
Movies, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2004
Baugh, L, Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ
figures in film, Sheed & Ward, Franklin, 1997.
Barsotti, C; Johnston, R, Finding God in the
Movies, Baker Books, Grand Rapids, 2004.
Beaudoin, T, Virtual Faith, Jossey-Vass, San
Francisco, 1998
Billinsley, KL, The Seductive Image, Crossway
Books, Westchester, 1989
Boggs, JM & Petrie, DW, The Art of Watching
Films, McGraw Hill, New York, 2008
Cawkwell, T, The Filmgoer’s Guide to God, DLT,
London 2004
Cooper, JC, & Skrade, C, Celluloid and Symbols,
Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1970
Davie, G, Religion in Britain Since 1945,
Blackwell, Oxford, 1994
Davis, WT et al., Watching What We Watch,
Geneva Press, Louisville, 2001
Detweiler C, Into
the Dark, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, 2008
Einstein, M, Brands
of Faith. Routledge, Abingdon, 2008
Ekstrom, KM & Brembeck, H Eds, Elusive Consumption, BERG, Oxford 2004
Finney, J, Finding Faith Today: How does it happen?,
BFBS, Swindon, 1992.
Godawa, B, Hollywood Worldviews, IVP, Downers
Grove, 2002
Gunn-Danforth, G, Transforming
Culture: A Model for Faith and Film in Hollywood, WIPF & STOCK, Eugene,
2009
Higgins, G, How the Movies Helped Save My Soul,
Relevant Books, 2003
Hill, G, Illuminating Shadows: the mythic power of
film, Shambhala Publications, Boston, 1992.
Jewett, R, Saint Paul at the Movies,
Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, 1993
Jewett, R, Saint Paul Returns to the Movies,
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1999
Johnston, RK, Reel Spirituality, Baker, Grand
Rapids, 2000.
Johnston, RK, Useless Beauty: Ecclesiastes through
the lens of contemporary film, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, 2004
Lawrence, JS & Jewett, R, The Myth of The
American Superhero, Eerdmans, 2003
Lyden, JC, Film As Religion, New York
University Press, New York, 2003
McNulty, E, Praying the Movies, Geneva Press,
Louisville, 2001
McNulty, E, Praying the Movies II, Geneva
Press, Louisville, 2003
Malone, P & Pacatte, R, Lights Camera
Faith! (3 Volumes – RCL years A, B and C), Pauline Books & Media,
Boston, 2001 - 2003
Marsh, C, / Ortiz, G, Eds. Explorations in Theology
and Film: movies and meaning, Blackwell, Oxford, 1997
Marsh, C, Cinema and Sentiment, Paternoster,
Bletchley, 2004
May, S, Stardust and Ashes, SPCK London 1998
Miles, MR, Seeing and Believing, Beacon, Boston
1996.
Monaco, J How to
Read a Film, OUP, New York, 2009
Pinsky, MI, The Gospel According to the Simpsons,
Westminster John Knox Press,
Louisville, 2001
Pollard, N & Couch, S, Get More Like Jesus
While Watching TV, Damaris, Bletchley, 2005
Sanders, T, Celluloid Saints, Mercer Press,
Macon, 2002
Schelde, P, Androids, Humanoids, and Other Science
Fiction Monsters: Science and Soul in Science Fiction Films, New York
University Press, New York, 1993.
Staley, JL & Walsh, R, Jesus, the Gospels, and Cinematic Imagination, Westminster John
Knox Press, Louisville, 2007
Stone, B, Faith and Film: theological themes at the
cinema, Chalice Press, St. Louis, 2000.
Tanner, K
New Theories of Culture, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1997
Tatum,
WB, Jesus at the Movies, Polebridge, Santa Rosa, 1997
Taylor, B, Entertainment
Theology, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, 2008
Telford, W; Christianson, E; Francis, P, Ed’s Cinema
Divinité: Religion, Theology and the Bible in Film, SCM, London, 2005
Thomson,
D The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, Little Brown, Lancaster,
2002
Time Out,
Film Guide, Penguin, London, 2004
Turner,
C, Planet
Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and
Defined a Generation, Ebury
Press, 2004
Walsh, R,
Finding St Paul in Film, T & T Clark, London, 2005
Wartenberg,
TE, Thinking on Screen: Film as
Philosophy, Routledge, Abingdon,
2007
Wink, W Engaging
the Powers, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1992
Wright,
MJ Religion and Film, I.B. Taurus, London, 2007
INTERESTING WEBSITES WORTH LOOKING AT
Aitken, P, Another Hundred Years of Jesus Christ on
Film,
Chattaway, PT, Jesus at the Movies, www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2000/002/2.10.html
Hollywood Jesus at www.hollywoodjesus.com
McEver, M, The Messianic Figure in
Film: Christology Beyond the Biblical Epic, www.unomaha.edu/~wwwjrf/McEverMessiah.htm
Meier, S, Movie Review of The Matrix, www.xenos.org/ministries/crossroads/OnlineJournal/issue3/matrix.htm
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UK ORGANISATIONS OFFERING
TRAINING COURSES
Short/weekend
informal courses
Longer
more formal courses
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of Nottingham
Durham
University www.dur.ac.uk/theology.religion/postgrad/research/filmandreligion/
University
of Edinburgh
2 comments:
This is a great list. Thank you. I'm gonna promote it on my @Ent_Theo_Com Twitter page. And, if you're interested here's link to my unfortunately neglected blog: www.EntertainmentTheology.com
Brandon
Brandon - many thanks for the encouragement. I'll certainly check your blog out.
BW
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