Resources

Books

• Bandy, Mary Lea, and Antonio Monda ed. The Hidden God. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2003.
• Baugh, Lloyd. Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ Figures in Film. Lanham: Sheed and Ward, 1998.
• Butler, Ivan. Religion in the cinema. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1969.
• Higgins, Gareth. How Movies Helped Save My Soul: Finding Spiritual Fingerprints in Culturally Significant Films. Lake Mary: Relevant Books, 2003.
• Hurley, Neil P. Theology Through Film. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
• Izod, John. Myth, Mind and the Screen: Understanding the Heroes of our Time. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Jewett, Robert. Saint Paul at the Movies: The Apostle's Dialogue With American Culture. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993.
• Johnston, Robert K. Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2000.
• Johnston, Robert K. Useless Beauty: Ecclesiastes Through The Lens Of Contemporary Film. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004.
• Johnston, Robert K., and Catherine M. Barsotti. Finding God in the Movies: 33 Films of Reel Faith. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2004.
• Kreitzer, Larry J. Gospel Images in Fiction and Film: On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.
• Kreitzer, Larry J. New Testament in Fiction and Film: On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993.
• Kreitzer, Larry J. The Old Testament in Fiction and Film: On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994.
• Kreitzer, Larry J. Pauline Images in Fiction and Film: On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.
• Lourdeaux, Lee. Italian & Irish Filmmakers in America: Ford, Capra, Coppola & Scorsese. Englewood Cliffs: Technology Publications Inc, 1993.
• Marsh, Clive, Gaye Ortiz. Explorations in Theology and Film. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997.
• Martin, Joel W., and Conrad E. Ostwalt Jr. Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular American Film. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.
• Martin, Thomas. Images and the imageless: A study in religious consciousness and film. London: Associated University Presses, 1981.
• May, John R., ed. Image and Likeness: Religious Visions in American Film Classics. New York: Paulist Press, 1992.
• May, John R., ed. New Image of Religious Film. Lanham: Sheed and Ward, 1998.
• May, John R., ed. Religion in Film. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1983.
• Miles, Margaret R. Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.
• Pungente, John J. Finding God in the Dark: Taking the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius to the Movies. Montreal : Novalis Press, 2004.
• Scott, Bernard B. Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1994.
• Stone, Bryan P. Faith and Film: Theological Themes at the Cinema. St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2000.
• Tatum, W. Barnes. Jesus at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years. Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge Press, 1997.

Websites

• Department of Comparative Literature, Religion, and Film/Media Studies University of Alberta
• The Journal of Religion and Film
• Religion and Film Bibliography

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