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  • A Spirited Anthropology for Avatars, Heroes, and Assorted Undead

    Representing the Body in Popular Media

    by Tim Posada ...
    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    This book focuses on debates surrounding the body, soul, and spirit, and addresses other aspects of theological anthropology in service to that angle.What unseen forces govern fictional settings across films, television, and print? Are the bodies they portray useless, evil, spirited, or maybe soulless? This book interrogates the body in examples like Avatar: The Last Airbender, Castlevania, Get ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Theology and the Marvel Universe

    by Daniel D. Clark, Austin M. Freeman, Amanda Furiasse, Kristen Leigh Mitchell, Levi Morrow, Kevin Nye, Taylor J. Ott, Jeremy E. Scarbrough, Andrew D. Thrasher, Andrew Tobolowsky, Matthew William Brake0, Tim Posada1, Gregory Stevenson2, Dan W. Clanton Jr.4 ...
    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    In Theology and the Marvel Universe, fourteen contributors examine theological themes and ideas in the comic books, television shows, and films that make up the grand narrative of the Marvel Universe. Engaging in dialogue with theological thinkers such as Willie James Jennings, Franz Rosenzweig, Søren Kierkegaard, René Girard, Kelly Brown Douglas, and many others, the chapters explore a wide ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Theology and the Star Wars Universe

    by Josiah Brock, Nettie Brock, Shaun C. Brown, Edward Dunar, Ryan G. Duns, Benjamin D. Espinoza, Nathan Garcia, Russell P. Johnson, Robert Keeley, Bethany Keeley-Jonker0, Rostislav Kurka1, Andrew J. Kuzma2, Jonathan Lyonhart3, John C. McDowell4, James F. McGrath5, Tim Posada6, Abdallah Rothman7, Zachary B. Smith8 ...
    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    Scholars have been arguing for years that Star Wars is more than light sabers, Wookies, Millennium Falcons, and troubling familial relationships. Star Wars is an exciting space fantasy that we can explore from multiple academic perspectives, such as philosophy and psychology. This volume adds to that conversation by asking, “what would it look like if we analyzed the Star Wars universe ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Eyes Wide Open

    Looking for God in Popular Culture

    by William D. Romanowski ...
    Grounded in Christian principles, this accessible and engaging book offers an informed and fascinating approach to popular culture. William D. Romanowski provides affectionate yet astute analysis of familiar, well-loved movies and television characters from Indiana Jones to Homer Simpson, and he speaks with historical depth and expertise on films from Casablanca to Crash and music from Bruce ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Cult Cinema

    An Introduction

    by Ernest Mathijs, Jamie Sexton ...
    Cult Cinema: an Introduction presents the first in-depth academic examination of all aspects of the field of cult cinema, including audiences, genres, and theoretical perspectives.Represents the first exhaustive introduction to cult cinemaOffers a scholarly treatment of a hotly contested topic at the center of current academic debateCovers audience reactions, aesthetics, genres, theories of cult ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero

    Edited by Angela Ndalianis ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys into the film and television variation. As superheroes and their stories have grown with the audiences that ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Found Footage Horror Films

    Fear and the Appearance of Reality

    by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas ...
    As the horror subgenre du jour, found footage horror's amateur filmmaking look has made it available to a range of budgets. Surviving by adapting to technological and cultural shifts and popular trends, found footage horror is a successful and surprisingly complex experiment in blurring the lines between quotidian reality and horror's dark and tantalizing fantasies.Found Footage Horror Films ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Reel Spirituality

    Theology and Film in Dialogue

    by Robert Johnston ...
    Series series Engaging Culture
    Increasingly, thinking Christians are examining the influential role that movies play in our cultural dialogue. Reel Spirituality successfully heightens readers' sensitivity to the theological truths and statements about the human condition expressed through modern cinema. This second edition cites 200 new movies and encourages readers to ponder movie themes that permeate our culture as well as ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Reframing Theology and Film

    New Focus for an Emerging Discipline

    by William Dyrness, Robert Johnston ...
    Series series Cultural Exegesis
    The connection between theology and film is a hot topic in the academy and the church. But research and writing on methodology and hermeneutics is lacking. This comprehensive collection identifies the overlooked or undervalued areas in the current discussions of film and theology. Including contributions from the leaders in the field, Reframing Theology and Film helps deepen the conversation while ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Religion and Film

    Cinema and the Re-creation of the World

    by S. Brent Plate ...
    Religion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing, mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing, and other production activities, film takes the world “out there” and refashions it. Religion achieves similar ends by setting apart particular objects and periods of time, telling stories, and gathering people together for communal ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Grant Morrison

    Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics

    by Marc Singer ...
    Series series Great Comics Artists Series
    One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics, Grant Morrison (b. 1960) brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular genres-superhero, science fiction, and fantasy-that dominate the American and British comics industries. His comics range from bestsellers featuring the most universally recognized superhero franchises (All ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Into the Dark

    Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century

    by Robert Johnston, William Dyrness ...
    Series series Cultural Exegesis
    In this book, Craig Detweiler examines forty-five films from the twenty-first century that resonate theologically--from the Lord of the Rings trilogy to Little Miss Sunshine--offering groundbreaking insight into their scriptural connections and theological applications.Detweiler writes with the eye of a filmmaker, leads Hollywood and religion initiatives at Fuller Seminary, and even came to faith ... Read more

    $23.09 USD