April 2012
New Format for the Journal
Welcome to the new website for the Journal of Religion and Film. We hope you enjoy the new format and the contents of this issue, including articles, film reviews, and our reports from Sundance and Slamdance 2012. Please click on the Editorial below for more information.Editorial
From the Editor
John C. Lyden
Articles
Menstruation as Heroine’s Journey in Pan’s Labyrinth
Richard Lindsay
There’s No Place Like Home: From Oz to Antichrist
J. Sage Elwell
Irruptions of the Sacred in a “World of Shit”: Profanity, Sacred Words, and Cinematic Hierophanies in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Joseph E. Bisson
Ironic Faith in Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Steven A. Benko
Film Reviews
Sundance Film Festival 2012 Report
John C. Lyden, William Blizek, Dereck Daschke, Kutter Callaway, and Jeanette Reedy Solano
Slamdance Film Festival 2012 Report
William Blizek and Dereck Daschke
Melancholia
Jon Pahl
Out of the Fire
William Blizek
The Descendants
William Blizek
Take Shelter
Dereck Daschke
The Woman in Black
Danny Pegg
Good Deeds
Carol Miles
Los Ultimos Cristeros (The Last Christeros)
Davide Zordan
Do Ga Ni (The Crucible)
Seung Min Hong
God is the Bigger Elvis
Wendy M. Wright
Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life
Jeremy Biles
The Skin I Live In
Jeremy Biles
A Dangerous Method
Gregory Chad Wilkes
Another Earth
Lisa D. Wiley Ms