Articles added to filmandreligion.com in March 2016

In the month of March 2016 I added this 49 articles to filmandreligion.com that discusses aspects of film/TV and religion. About half of them are from the last few months, but the rest is from the 1980’s

1. Applying Religion and Film to Islam by William L. Blizek & Bilal Yorulmaz (2015-12)
2. Beyond the Confines of Tolerance in Rachid Buchareb’s London River: Theological Discussion and Educational Approach to an Open Ended film by Panayiotis A. Thoma (2015-10)
3. Birdman or (‘the unexpected virtue of ignorance’): Transcendence in unexpected places
   by Nikolai Blaskow (2015-12)
4. Casting Jesus: A century of cinematic Christ by Geoff Broughton (2015-12)
5. Celluloid Assimilation: Jews in American Silent Movies by Lester D. Friedman (1987-07)
6. Cinema and the Sacrifice of Narcissus by Jean Collet and Jospeh Cunneen (1987-09)
7. Cinema Savior by Michael Singer (1988-10)
8. Close Encounters of a Religious Kind by Laurel Arthur Burton (1983-11)
9. Commercial Propaganda in the Silent Film: A Case Study of “A Mormon Maid” (1917) by Richard Alan Nelson (1987-10)
10. “Controversy has probably destroyed forever the context”: “The Miracle” and Movie Censorship in America in the Fifties by Ellen Draper (1990-04)
11. “Daniel”: A Study of Sidney Lumet’s Integratinon of Jewish Ethis and the Christian Passion by Norbert M Samuelson (1986-07)
12. Darrryl F. Zanuck’s “Brigham Young”: A Film in Context by James V. D’Arc (1989-11)
13. The Doctor’s Original Face: Watching Doctor Who Episodes as Buddhist Koans by Ann Matsuuchi, Alexander Lozupone (2015-12)
14. Echoes of Myth: The Feature Films of John Boorman by Peter Wilson Johnson (1984-09)
15. Explicit and Implicit Religion in Doctor Who and Star Trek by James F. McGrath (2015-12)
16. Filmic Constructions of Religious Spaces: Churches as Settings for Trauma, Change, and Redemption by Sofia Sjö (2015-07)
17. Films and Religion: An analysis of Aamir Khan’s PK by Monisa Qadri, Sabeha Mufti (2015-12)
18. The Final Frontier? Religion and Posthumanism in Film and Television by Elaine Graham (2015-09)
19. The Flying Nun and Post-Vatican II Catholicism by Rick Wolff (1991-06)
20. A God Who Play by Andrew Greeley (1991-06)
21. A Hidden Light: Judaism, Contemporary Israeli Film, and the Cinematic Experience by Dan Chyutin (2015-11)
22. Hollywood markets the Amish by John A. Hostetler and Donald B. Kraybill (1988-12)
23. Hollywood’s New Mythology by Neil P. Hurley (1983-01)
24. The immolated victim: Traditionalist Roman Catholicism and Mel Gibson’s ‘the passion of the Christ’ by Bernard Doherty (2015-12)
25. The Impossible Pit: Satan, Hell, and Teaching with Doctor Who by Holly A. Jordan (2015-12)
26. Islam, Consciousness and Early Cinema: Said Nursî and the Cinema of God by Canan Balan (2016-02)
27. Islamic Representation in Television Advertising and its Impact on Modern Malay Muslim Women by Rosninawati Hussin, Sofia Hayati Yusoff, Siti Nubailah Mohd Yusof (2015-11)
28. Islamic Television Programs : Content and Format Revisited by Osama Kanaker & Zulkiple A. Ghani (2015-12)
29. Looking For God Profane & Sacred in the Films of Woody Allen by Richard A. Blake (1991-06)
30. Mormons as silent cinema villains: propaganda and entertainment by Richard Alan Nelsona (1984-02)
31. Movies as myths: An interpretation of motion picture mythology by Elizabeth C. Hirschman (1988-04)
32. Nothing Will Ever Be The Same Again: Exploring Faith, Doubt, and the Disciple Journey of a Companion to the Doctor by Jasper Peters (2015-12)
33. The pastoral tradition in film by Andrew J. Ford (1985-04)
34. A poor reflection as in a mirror?: Film as both window and mirror for theology by Jonathan Holt (2015-12)
35. Preaching to the converted: conversion language and the constitution of the TV evangelical community
    by Wright Wright (1989-11)
36. “Receive with Simplicity Everything That Happens to You”: Schlemiel (Meta) Physics in the Coens’ A Serious Man by Krzysztof Majer (2015-11)
37. The Return of the Sacred”: Implicit Religion and Initiation Symbolism in Zvyagintsev’s Vozvrashchenie (2003) by Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu (2015-11)
38. The Returned and the Departed. The living and the dead in the TV series The Leftovers and Les Revenants by Franzoni Andrea (2016-01)
39. The sacrificial sheep in three French-North African film:
    displacements and reappropriations by Dora Carpenter-Latiri (2016-02)
40. Searching for the Star Child by Harlan Kennedy (1984-09)
41. Sensing Religion in Alfonso Cuarón’s “Children of Men” by M. Gail Hamner (2015-12)
42. Will we get McLuhan to the church on time? The “religious” dimensions of television by Jennifer Lemon (1989-07)
43. Woody Allen’s Theological Imagination by Gary Commins (1987-07)
44. Zombies in America and at Qumran: AMC’s The Walking Dead, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Apocalyptic Redux by Kipp Davis (2015-07)