April 2017
Introduction
This issue is dedicated to the memory of our friend, Kathleen M. Erndl (1954-2017). She will be sorely missed. --John LydenArticles
Problem-Based Learning and Two Studies of the Journal of Religion and Film: Self-Sacrifice and Music
Ken Derry
Hot Jesus, Black Messiah, Suffering Son of God: How Jesus Films Shape Our Moral Imaginations
Rebekah Eklund
How To Attain Liberation From a False World? The Gnostic Myth of Sophia in Dark City (1998)
Fryderyk Kwiatkowski
"I Do Feel the Fire!": The Transformations of Prison-Based Black Male Converts to Islam in South Central, Malcolm X, and Oz
Kameron J. Copeland
Global Catastrophe in Motion Pictures as Meaning and Message: The Functions of Apocalyptic Cinema in American Film
Wynn Gerald Hamonic
Two-Spirit Mexica Youth and Transgender Mixtec/Muxe Media: La Mission (2009), Two Spirit: Injunuity (2013), and Libertad (2015)
Gabriel S. Estrada
“To See My Home Before I Die”: The Trip to Bountiful, Memento Mori, and the Experience of Death
Margaret Sullivan
Religion and Violence in Jesse James Films, 1972–2010
Travis Warren Cooper
Book Reviews
Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order
Richard Goodwin
Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation
Kathryn C. Hardy
Film Reviews
Hidden Figures
Carol Miles
The Innocents (Les Innocentes)
Joshua Canzona
Sundance Film Festival Reviews
Sundance Film Festival 2017
John C. Lyden
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
John C. Lyden
Last Men in Aleppo
William L. Blizek
Before I Fall
John C. Lyden
Cries from Syria
John C. Lyden
To the Bone
William L. Blizek
I Dream in Another Language
John C. Lyden
The Discovery
William L. Blizek
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
William L. Blizek
I Love Dick
William L. Blizek
Slamdance Film Festival Reviews
Slamdance Film Festival 2017
William L. Blizek
Interview with Jessie Auritt, Director of Supergirl
William L. Blizek
The Erlprince
John C. Lyden
Dave Made a Maze
William L. Blizek
Weather House
John C. Lyden
Automatic at Sea
John C. Lyden
Aerotropolis
John C. Lyden
The Modern Jungle
John C. Lyden