Journal of Religion and Film | Vol 19 | Iss 1

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April 2015

Introduction

We now publish the April issue in its entirety, including several articles and two book reviews. John Lyden, Editor

Editorial

Sundance Film Festival 2015
Rubina Ramji

Articles

Iranian Women, Iranian Cinema: Negotiating with Ideology and Tradition
Najmeh Moradiyan Rizi

Undoing the Claim of Objectivity: Contradictions at the Heart of Bergtji van der Haak, Saudi Solutions (2005)
Anisa Saeed Mohammed Nasser

The Binding of Abraham: Inverting the Akedah in Fail-Safe and WarGames
Hunter B. Dukes

Personal Identity and Angelic Touch in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire
Chris Venner

An Evil Threat to Marriage, Children and the Future: Queer Theory, "The Passion of the Christ," and Evangelical Political Rhetoric
Richard Wolff

Eucharistic Imagery in Film: Two Patterns of Usage
Caesar A. Montevecchio

The Non-Place between Sacred and Profane: Utopian Gestures in the Apparatus of Semiocapitalism in Laurent Cantet’s L'emploi du temps
Tamas Nagypal

The Movie Mogul, Moses and Muslims: Islamic Elements in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments (1956)
Michael D. Calabria OFM

Book Reviews

Der skandinavische Horrorfilm. Kultur- und ästhetikgeschichtliche Perspektiven (The Scandinavian Horror Film. Cultural historical and Aesthetical Historical Perspectives)
Christiane Königstedt

Documentary as Exorcism: Resisting the Bewitchment of Colonial Christianity
Michael Broyles

Film Reviews

Leviathan
Denis J. Bekkering

Still Alice
Frederick Ruf

Noah
Danny Pegg

Life Itself
Daniel Ross Goodman

Artificio Conceal
William L. Blizek

Sundance Film Festival Reviews

Stockholm, Pennsylvania
William L. Blizek

Tangerine
William L. Blizek

Z for Zachariah
William L. Blizek

Aloft
William L. Blizek

The Stanford Prison Experiment
Rubina Ramji

Chuck Norris vs. Communism
Jodi McDavid

Knock Knock
Jodi McDavid

Partisan
Rubina Ramji

Advantageous
Jodi McDavid

Tig
Jodi McDavid

Don Verdean
William L. Blizek

The Nightmare
Jodi McDavid

Hellions
Jodi McDavid

Censored Voices
Jodi McDavid

Last Days in the Desert
William L. Blizek

Christmas, Again
William L. Blizek

I am Michael
William L. Blizek

Princess
Rubina Ramji

Umrika
Rubina Ramji

The 414s
Rubina Ramji

Entertainment
Rubina Ramji

The Hallow
Rubina Ramji

The Visit
Rubina Ramji

The Amina Profile
Rubina Ramji

Prophet's Prey
Rubina Ramji and Jodi McDavid

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
William L. Blizek

Sister Wife
William L. Blizek

Slamdance Film Festival Reviews

Slamdance 2015
Kristian Petersen

Birds of Neptune
Kristian Petersen

Tired Moonlight
Kristian Petersen

Female Pervert
Kristian Petersen

Across the Sea
Kristian Petersen