Useless beauty : Ecclesiastes through the lens of contemporary film - Johnston, Robert K., 1945- (Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, 2004)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Bible. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Motion pictures -- Religious aspects -- Christianity