Table of contents for Image and Likeness: Religious Visions in American Film Classics, edited by John R. May:
Introduction 1
I. Composition and Fundamental Attitudes 11
- Comic Rhythm, Ambiguity, and Hope in City Lights / Jack Coogan 13
- The Grapes of Wrath: The Poor You Always Have with You / Philip C. Rule 21
- High Noon: On the Uncertainty of Certainty / Ann-Janine Morey 31
- 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Search for a Center / James M. Wall 39
II. Mythic Allusions and the Demonic Heart 47
- Citizen Kane: Descent into the Demonic / George Garrelts 49
- Sunset Boulevard: Twilight of the Gods / Michael Thomas Morris 56
- The Godfather Films: Birth of a Don, Death of a Family / John R. May 65
III. Movement and Rebirth 77
- The Wizard of Oz and Other Mythic Rites of Passage / J. Scott Cochrane 79
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: Spiritual Quest and Studio Patriarchy / Peter Valenti 87
- On the Waterfront: Rebirth of a “Contenduh” / Neil P. Hurley 96
- The Art of “Seeing”: Classical Paintings and Ben-Hur / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona 104
IV. Montage and Transforming Love 117
- Love and Duty in Casablanca / Mara E. Donaldson 119
- Notorious: Penance as a Paradigm of Redemption / Harold Hatt 126
- It’s a Wonderful Life: Divine Benevolence and Love of Neighbor / Robert E. Lauder 135
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: A Salvific Drama of Liberation / Charles B. Ketcham 145
V. Other Forms, Other Visions / John R. May 153
- It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934) 155
- Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939) 155
- Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) 156
- The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940) 156
- All the King’s Men (Robert Rossen, 1949) 157
- All About Eve (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1950) 158
- The African Queen (John Huston, 1951) 158
- Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952) 159
- East of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955) 159
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962) 160
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966) 161
- Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) 161
- Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969) 163
- The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971) 164
- Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill, 1972) 164
- Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975) 165
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977, 1980) 166
- Reds (Warren Beatty, 1981) 166
- The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman, 1983) 167
- Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986) 168
Appendix 171
About the Contributors 176
Notes 181
Index 19