Journal of Religion and Film | Vol 15 | Iss 2

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October 2011

Editorial

From the Editor
John C. Lyden

Articles

Angels in the Metroplex: Hegel, the Apocrypha, and Intertextuality in Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire)
Carrol Fry

Desiring Oedipus in Stephen Frears’s The Grifters
Melissa Tanti

Majid Majidi and Baran: Iranian Cinematic Poetics and the Spiritual Poverty of Rumi
Michael Pittman

Walt Kowalski A Christ-Figure? Christic Resonances in Gran Torino
Diane Corkery

Watching Ancient Egyptian Poetry — Among Other Histrionics
Scott Morschauser

Job of Suburbia? A Serious Man and Viewer Perceptions of the Biblical
David Tollerton

A Serious Man
Norman M. Cohen

Fourth Biennial VisionMaker Film Festival Report
John C. Lyden

Film Reviews

Of Gods and Men (2010)
Wendy M. Wright

The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
William Rodriguez

The Mill and the Cross (2011)
David Humbert

The Rite (2011)
Gregory Chad Wilkes

The Tree of Life (2011)
Alan A. Stone

The Tree of Life (2011)
Danny Fisher

Winter’s Bone (2010)
Rebecca Albright

The Help (2011)
Carol Miles