Journal of Religion & Film: Volume 17, Issue 1 (2013) April 2013

The latest issue of the Journal of Religion & Film is now online: Volume 17, Issue 1 (2013) April 2013 . In addition to the Sundance and Slamdance 2013 reviews, it has additional film reviews, and eight new articles. The articles are:

• Spirit(uality) in the Films of Terrence Malick by Christopher B. Barnett
• The Problem of Evil and Humans’ Relationship with God in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life by Bertha Alvarez Manninen
• Jest in Time: The Problems and Promises of the Holy Fool in Francesco, giullare di Dio, Ordet, and Ikiru by Peter L. Doebler
• O Great God-Humility and Camera Movement in Roberto Rossellini’s The Flowers of St. Francis by Justin Ponder
• Satanic but not Satan: Signs of the Devilish in Contemporary Cinema by Adam L. Porter
• The Sins of Leo McCarey by Blake S.J.Blake S.J.
• Shinto and Buddhist Metaphors in Departures by Richard A. Okuyama
• Homeric Heroes in Ethan and Joel Coen’s The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), The Big Lebowski (1998) and No Country for Old Men (2007) by Vaughan S. Roberts

The film reviews are:

• Shugendo Now by Jonathan Thumas
• Cloud Atlas by Gregory Chad Wilkes
• Beasts of the Southern Wild by Frederick Ruf
• The Dark Knight Rises by Michael McGowan and Riley Endicott
• Holy Motors by Jeremy Biles
• Life of Pi by Chad Bolton

For the Sundance and Slamdance reviews and for the whole journal, go to their page where every single article and review can be downloaded as a PDF.