Beautiful Light : Religious Meaning in Film.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781467446792
- 791.43682
- PN1995.9.R4 .A554 2017
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Through Wonder to Veneration -- 1. "NOT ALL ANGELS HAVE WINGS": Wonder, Light, and Love in M. Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake -- 2. AND THE BLIND SHALL SEE: Grasping the Radiance of Being in The Color of Paradise -- 3. THE EDUCATION OF A ONE-MAN PREACHING MACHINE: The Realization of Love in The Apostle -- 4. LOVE'S PURE LIGHT: Moral Light and Reconciliation in Dead Man Walking -- 5. WHEN HOPE BREAKS OUT: Love and Redemption in The Shawshank Redemption -- 6. "IT'S TAKEN ME SO LONG TO FIND YOU": Search and Rescue in Paul Schrader's American Gigolo -- 7. "HOW HIGH CAN I FLY?": Murder and Sacramental Ascent in Tom Tykwer's Heaven -- 8. "IT CAN HAPPEN": Frogs, Deliverance, and Reconciliation in P. T. Anderson's Magnolia -- 9. "THE GLORY SMILING THROUGH": Wonder and Beauty in The Thin Red Line -- Filmography -- Index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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