"This two-part volume contains a comprehensive collection of original studies by well-known scholars focusing on the Bible’s wide-ranging reception in world cinema. It is organized into sections examining the rich cinematic afterlives of selected characters from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament;
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considering issues of biblical reception across a wide array of film genres, ranging from noir to anime; featuring directors, from Lee Chang-dong to the Coen brothers, whose body of work reveals an enduring fascination with biblical texts and motifs; and offering topical essays on cinema’s treatment of selected biblical themes (e.g., lament, apocalyptic), particular interpretive lenses (e.g., feminist interpretation, queer theory), and windows into biblical reception in a variety of world cinemas (e.g., Indian, Israeli, and Third Cinema)." (Publisher description)
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"We all have many strands in our lives. In this memoir, Peter Malone takes us through his various strands. He is a man of a certain vintage, mainly Irish heritage. He grew up as a Catholic in a pr
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e-Vatican II Church. His call was to a religious congregation from the late 1950s and to priesthood from the mid-1960s. For many years he worked in religious formation in his congregation and taught theology and Old Testaments Studies, as part of the Melbourne College of Divinity. But, in different ways throughout the years, there was always the cinema strand, reviewing, writing, seminars and heading up the Catholic Church's international cinema organisation and then SIGNIS, The World Catholic Association for Communication." (Back cover)
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"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
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particular focuses on Mary in the Gospels are used as reference points for the Mary Films. For each of these eight focuses, scenes from particular films are described briefly but in some detail so that teachers can pick and choose what they might like to screen and know what features are to the fore in each sequence. At the end of each section, there is a brief overview followed by a listing of the key themes for this focus on Mary’s life. In the third part, there is more detail on the apparition films and in the fourth part more detail on the Marian figures and metaphors." (Introduction)
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"In 1998 at the Montreal assemblies of UNDA, the World Catholic Organization for Radio and Television, and OCIC, the International Catholic Organization for Cinema, the two associations agreed to merge. The merger was achieved in just over three years. This book gives an account of the merger proces
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s using reports written at the time and minutes of meetings. With the vote for SIGNIS in Rome in November 2001, the new World Catholic Association for Communication was inaugurated. This book gives a history of the Organization for its first two terms as we celebrate 80 years of its predecessors OCIC and UNDA. Special contributions come from the last President of UNDA, Angela Ann Zukowski MHSH, Robert Molhant, past Secretary General of OCIC and SIGNIS, Peter Thomas, past Vice President of UNDA and present Vice President of SIGNIS, Bernardo Suate, director of the Rome Services, Guido Convents, Cinema Desk, SIGNIS, and Jim McDonnell, SIGNIS England and Advocacy Desk." (Signis Media 4/2009)
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"This second volume of Lights, Camera ... Faith! provides new thought-provoking passages into the world of the Gospels through popular film. By exploring 74 movies in the light of the Sunday Scriptures, Malone and Pacatte create a dialogue between
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Scripture and film, engaging faith through culture and culture through faith. Insight, inspiration, and information meet in this valuable resource for anyone who appreciates deeper meaning in movies. Ideal for homilists, parish discussion groups, young adult groups, film educators, and professionals." (Publisher description)
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