vi, 200 pages : 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195) and index
Introduction -- Part One. Composition and fundamental attitudes : Comic rhyth, ambiguity and hope in City Lights / Jack Coogan -- The Grapes of Wrath : The poor you always have with you / Philip C. Rule -- High Noon : On the uncertanity of certainty / Ann-Janine Morey -- 2001 : A Space Odyssey and the search for a center / James M. Wall -- Part Two. Mythic allusions and the demonic heart : Citizen Kane : Descent into the demonic / George Garrelts -- Sunset Boulevard : Twilight of the gods / Michael Thomas Morris -- The Godfather films : Birth of a don, death of a family / John R. May -- Part Three. Movement and rebirth : The Wizard of Oz and other mythic rites of passage / J. Scott Cochrane -- The Treasure of Sierra Madre : Spiritual quest and studio patriarchy / Peter Valenti -- On the Waterfront : Rebirth of a 'contenduh' / Neil P. Hurley -- The art of 'seeing' : Classic paintings and Ben-Hur / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Part Four. Montage and transforming love : Love and duty in Casablanca / Mara E. Donaldson -- Notorious : Penance as a paradigm of redemption / Harold Hatt -- It's a Wonderful Life : Divine Benevolence and love of neighbor / Robert E. Lauder -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest : A salvific drama of liberation / Charles B. Ketcham -- Part Five. Other forms, other visions -- Appendix

May, John R

United States, United States of America

January 1992

FR, 1991

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-195) and index.

Takes fifteen classic American films and analyzes them for their religious meaning and symbolism

2023-06-28