Faith, film and philosophy : big ideas on the big screen / edited by R. Douglas Geivett and James S. Spiegel. - Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2007. - 311 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-302) and index.

The Citizen Kane mutiny : what hollywood knows and will never admit about life, love and human relationships / James F. Sennett -- Story-shaped lives in Big fish -- Kelly James Clark -- Defining love through the eye of the lens : romance, sex and the human condition in Pretty woman, Legends of the fall, and The bridges of Madison County / Greg Jesson -- Escaping into reality : what we can learn from The Truman show about the knowledge enterprise / R. Douglas Geivett -- The sleeper awakes : gnosis and authenticity in The matrix -- David P. Hunt -- Consciousness, memory and identity : the nature of persons in three films by Charlie Kaufman / Gregory E. Ganssle -- What would have been and what could be : counterfactuals in It's a wonderful life and Run Lola run / James S. Spiegel -- Liberation through sensuality : cinematic moral vision in an age of feeling / Dallas Willard -- From a society of fear to a community of trust : moving beyond Bowling for Columbine / Sara L.H. Shady -- Vengeance, forgiveness and redemption in Mystic River / Caroline J. Simon -- Moral monsters : horror's indispensable need for good and evil / Ronald K. Tacelli -- Religion and science in Contact and 2001: a space odyssey / Brendan Sweetman -- Bottled water from the fragrant harbor : the diluted spiritual elements of Hong Kong films / Winfried Corduan -- Rattle and film : U2, Nietzsche and salvation in the blues / Douglas K. Blount.

9780830825899 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0830825894 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects.
Motion pictures--Religious aspects.

PN 1995.5 / .F35 2007