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Peculiar portrayals : Mormons on the page, stage, and screen / edited by Mark T. Decker and Michael Austin.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latter Day Saints in mass media.
- Latter Day Saint churches.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, c2010.
- Logan Utah State University Press, [2010]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In a time when Mormons appear to have larger roles in everything from political conflict to television shows and when Mormon-related topics seem to show up more frequently in the news, eight scholars take a close look at Mormonism in popular media: film, television, theater, and books. Some contributors examine specific works, including the Tony-winning play Angels in America, the hit TV series Big Love, and the bestselling books Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith and The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint. Others consider the phenomena of M
- Contents:
- Center and periphery: Mormons and American culture in Tony Kushner's Angels in America / Cristine Hutchison-Jones
- Four consenting adults in the privacy of their own suburb: Big love and the cultural significance of Mormon polygamy / Michael Austin
- Teaching under the banner of heaven: testing the limits of tolerance in America / Kevin Kolkmeyer
- Avenging angels: the Nephi archetype and blood atonement in Neil Labute, Brian Evenson, and Levi Peterson, and the making of the Mormon American writer / J. Aaron Sanders
- Elders on the big screen: film and the globalized circulation of Mormon missionary images / John-Charles Duffy
- "I constructed in my mind a vast, panoramic picture": the miracle life of Edgar Mint and postmodern, postdenominational Mormonism / Mark T. Decker
- Jane Austen in Mollywood: mainstreaming Mormonism in Andrew Black's Pride & prejudice / Juliette Wells
- Reality corrupts, reality television corrupts absolutely / Karen D. Austin.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612822247
- 9781282822245
- 1282822241
- 9780874217742
- 0874217741
- OCLC:
- 659561142
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