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film-dienst (Film Journal, Germany, 1947-)
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Interfilm (Protestant Film Organization, 1955-)
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Colonial Period
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Islam: Media Representation & Reporting
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Wenders, Wim
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Muslim Media
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Mary on the Screen

CREC (2014), 74 pp.
"The first part of the book is an overview of the history of films which offer substantial images of Mary. They include the films specifically about Mary and her presence in the life of Jesus films [...] In the second part of the book, which has been designed especially as an aid to teachers, eight ... more

Clouds of Unknowing: Buddhism and Bhutanese Cinema

In: Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts
Lina Khatib (ed.)
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), pp. 157-171
"In this chapter, we have looked at how Buddhism and orality have been translated into film in Bhutan. We have argued, that cinema operates as a secondary oral medium, through the various rituals of production, distribution and consumption and, most significantly, at the level of story construction. ... more

Qissa and Popular Hindi Cinema

In: Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts
Lina Khatib (ed.)
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), pp. 183-194
"While acknowledging the contribution of the dominant Hindi Sanskritic narrative tradition to the shaping of popular Hindi cinema, this chapter aims to explore the alternative narrative streams that have governed storytelling in Hindi films, particularly the Perso-Arabic legacy of the qissa and dast ... more

50 Jahre Steyl Medien: Überlegungen zur Rolle des Missionsfilms gestern und heute

In: Steyler Missionschronik 2012/13
Nettetal: Steyler Verlag (2012), pp. 139-144, p.161
"It has not been uncommon in the history of Jesus in film for commercial movies of Jesus' life to be conscripted for Christian evangelism around the world. Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings (1927), John Krish and Peter Sykes' Jesus (1979), better known today as The Jesus Film, and Mel Gibson's Th ... more
"The article deals with two recent Iranian films, al-Masih (Teh Messiah) by Nader Talebzadeh and Maryam al-Muqaddasah (Holy Mary) by Shahriar Bahrani. Both movies are about religious characters shared by Islam and Christianity: Zechariah, Mary and Jesus. The article explores the way the filmmakers h ... more

Visions, Images, and Dreams: Yiddish Film, Past and Present

Teaneck, New Jers.: Holmes & Meier, revised and expanded ed. (2011), xvi, 272 pp.
"One of the ways by which religious rituals communicate in African society is by maintaining cohesion in the culture. They connect participants to richer meanings and larger forces of their community. Even in representational models, rituals create solidarity in the form of subjective experiences of ... more

Encyclopedia of Religion and Film

Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO (2011), xix, 644 pp.
"Organized alphabetically, this encyclopedia provides more than 90 entries on the larger religious traditions, the major film-producing regions of the globe, the films that have stirred controversy, the most significant religious symbols, and the more important filmmakers. The included topics provid ... more

Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films

In: Media and Identity in Africa
Kimani Njogu; John Middleton (eds.)
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010), pp. 171-184

Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2010), xiv, 226 pp.
"This innovative, interdisciplinary collection of essays by scholars based in Europe and the United States offers stimulating approaches to the role played by religion in present-day South Asia." (Publisher description)

The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film

London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2009), xiv, 503 pp.

Der unterhaltsame Gott: Theologie populärer Filme

Paderborn et al.: Schöningh (2008), 168 pp.
"Die Filmindustrie »ist nur religiös, wenn sie einen Markt dafür sieht. Die produziert nur die Kekse, die auch gegessen werden« (Regisseur Paul Verhoeven). Auch Gott und Religion sind solche »Kekse«! Offenkundig handelt es sich bei Unterhaltungsfilmen mit religiösen Motiven um Produkte, die d ... more

Catholics in the Movies

Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2008), xiv, 362 pp.
"Rather than being marginal to American popular culture, Catholic people, places, and rituals are all central to the world of the movie. Catholics in the Movies begins with an introductory essay that orients readers to the ways that films appear in culture and describes the broad trends that can be ... more
"Die 300 wichtigsten Spielfilme, Dokumentationen und TV-Movies mit spirituellem Hintergrund, ausführlich vorgestellt und besprochen mit Photos, Filmographie und Bezugsquellen-Hinweisen. Dazu Porträts der wichtigsten deutschen und internationalen Regisseure, Hintergründe der Filmentstehung und Reg ... more

Mediating Transcendence: Popular Film, Visuality, and Religious Experience in West Africa

Conference on New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa, July 10-12, 2008, Abuja, Nigeria, conference paper (2008), 23 pp.