April 2014
Introduction
This issue includes not only our usual variety of scholarly articles and film reviews, but also film reviews from the Sundance and Slamdance film festivals, as well as reports from the Sundance London film festival and the UNO Native film festival. Please enjoy all the fine reflections within these essays and reviews.Articles
“Love, What Have You Done to Me?” Eros and agape in Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess
Catherine M. O'Brien
The Holy Fool in Late Tarkovsky
Robert O. Efird
Preaching in the Darkness: The Night of the Hunter’s Subversion of Patriarchal Christianity and Classical Cinema
Carl Laamanen
The Virgin Mary on Screen: Mater Dei or Just a Mother in Guido Chiesa’s Io Sono con Te (I Am with You)
Timothy J. Johnson and Barbara Ottaviani-Jones
Transitional Violence in King of New York
Soren G. Palmer
Book Review
Scoring Transcendence: Contemporary Film Music as Religious Experience
Brandon A. Konecny
Film Reviews
Sundance London 2014
Vaughan S. Roberts
UNO Native Film Festival
Brady DeSanti, Michele M. Desmarais, and Beth R. Ritter
God's Slave
William L. Blizek
Sundance Film Festival Reviews
Sundance 2014 Introduction
William L. Blizek
SEPIDEH--Reaching for the Stars
William L. Blizek
Life After Beth
William L. Blizek
Chapel Perilous
William L. Blizek
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
Rubina Ramji
The Case Against 8
William L. Blizek
The Babadook
Rubina Ramji
This May Be the Last Time
William L. Blizek
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Jodi McDavid
God's Pocket
William L. Blizek
Drunktown's Finest
Jodi McDavid
No No: A Dockumentary
William L. Blizek
Watchers of the Sky
Rubina Ramji
What We Do in the Shadows
Rubina Ramji
Appropriate Behavior
William L. Blizek
Web Junkie
Jodi McDavid
Jamie Marks is Dead
Jodi McDavid
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead
Jodi McDavid
The Green Prince
Rubina Ramji and Jodi McDavid
The Overnighters
William L. Blizek
Interview with Edet Belzberg
Rubina Ramji
Slamdance Film Festival Reviews
Slamdance 2014 Introduction
William L. Blizek
Pink & Baby Blue
William L. Blizek
First Baptist
William L. Blizek
Kidnapped for Christ
Bilal Yorulmaz
The Sublime and Beautiful
Bilal Yorulmaz
Little Hope Was Arson
Bilal Yorulmaz