Catholics in the movies / edited by Colleen McDannell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McDannell, Colleen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholics in motion pictures.

Catholic Church--In motion pictures.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

xiv, 362 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Contents:

Why the movies? why religion? / Colleen McDannell

The silent social problem film : regeneration (1915) / Judith Weisenfeld

Boys to men : Angels with dirty faces (1938) / Thomas J. Ferraro

Jews and Catholics converge : the song of Bernadette (1943) / Paula M. Kane

America's favorite priest : Going my way (1944) / Anthony Burke Smith

God and guns : Seven cities of gold (1955) / Theresa Saunders

Life on the frontier : Lilies of the field (1963) / Jeffrey Marlett

Praying for stones like this : The Godfather trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990) / Carlo Rotella

Catholic horror :The exorcist (1973) / Colleen McDannell

Cops, priests, and the decline of Irish America : True confessions (1981) / Timothy J. Meagher

Worldly Madonna : entertaining angels : the Dorothy Day story (1996) / Tracy Fessenden

Border saints : Santitos (1997) / Darryl V. Caterine

Catholicism wow! : Dogma (1999) / Amy Frykholm

Votive offering : The Passion of the Christ (2004) / Colleen McDannell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195306569

0195306562

9780195306576

0195306570

OCLC:

122526358