April 2016
Introduction
As is our custom with the spring issue, we include reviews from the Sundance and Slamdance festivals and will add them as they are completed. The complete spring issue will appear in April. If you are looking for the special issue of papers from the 2015 International Religion and Film Conference in Istanbul, please access issue 20:1 in the sidebar.Articles
Seeing the Light, Hearing the Call: Women Religious as Spectators and Subjects of Popular Nun Films
Maureen A. Sabine Professor
The Roles Of Violence in Recent Biblical Cinema: The Passion, Noah, And Exodus: Gods And Kings
Kevin M. McGeough
The Eyes Have it: Film, Editing, and Postmodern Theological Hermeneutics
James M. Hansen Mr.
Suffering and Soul-Making in Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out
Bertha A. Manninen Ph.D.
From Marseille to Mecca: Reconciling the Secular and the Religious in Le grand voyage (The Big Trip) (2004)
Yahya Laayouni
Book Reviews
Hollywood Biblical Epics: Camp Spectacle and Queer Style from the Silent Era to the Modern Day
Kent L. Brintnall
A Social History of Iranian Cinema
Kristian Petersen
A Social History of Iranian Cinema (Farsi translation)
Kristian Petersen
Sundance Film Festival Reviews
Naz & Maalik
William L. Blizek
The Lobster
Rubina Ramji
Sand Storm
William L. Blizek
Indignation
William L. Blizek
Under the Shadow
William L. Blizek
Halal Love (and Sex)
Rubina Ramji
The Settlers
William L. Blizek
The Illinois Parables
William L. Blizek
Embrace the Serpent
Rubina Ramji
Brahman Naman
Rubina Ramji
Captain Fantastic
Rubina Ramji
Slamdance Film Festival Reviews
Slamdance 2016: Where Film Makes a Statement
Rubina Ramji
Chemical Cut
William L. Blizek
Disco Inferno
William L. Blizek
Excursions
William L. Blizek