Ancient Egyptian Religion on the Silver Screen: Modern Anxieties about Race, Ethnicity, and Religion
Abstract
This essay examines the depiction of religion, race, and ethnicity in four films: The Mummy, Stargate, The Ten Commandments, and Prince of Egypt. Each film - explicitly or implicitly, deliberately or not - uses ancient Egyptian religion as a foil to dramatize American concerns about race and ethnicity. The foil is the mysterious, and often false, religiosity of an often Orientalized religious and ethnic "other."
Recommended Citation
Schroeder, Caroline T.
(2003)
"Ancient Egyptian Religion on the Silver Screen: Modern Anxieties about Race, Ethnicity, and Religion,"
Journal of Religion & Film: Vol. 7:
Iss.
2, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol7/iss2/1
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