Johnston, Robert K.,  1945- <br/><br/>
Useless beauty :  Ecclesiastes through the lens of contemporary film / 
Robert K. Johnston. 
 - Grand Rapids, Mich. :  Baker Academic,  c2004. 
 - 208 p. :  ill. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>A battered optimism : Ecclesiastes and our contemporary context -- The existentialist alternative : Akira Kurosawa and Woody Allen -- Death and life : Alan Ball and American beauty -- The saddest happy ending : Paul Thomas Anderson and Magnolia -- Chance and fate : Tom Tykwer and Run Lola run -- An ambiguous joy : Marc Forster and Monster's ball -- Can God be in this? : M. Night Shyamalan and Signs -- Confessions of a workaholic : Alexander Payne, election, and about Schmidt -- Humanity at full stretch : let the preacher respond. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0801027853 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004007267 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bible.--Ecclesiastes--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motion pictures--Religious aspects--Christianity.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BS 1475.52  / .J64 2004