Reframing Theology and Film: New Focus for an Emerging Discipline Book

Acknowledgments

Notes on the Contributors

Introduction: Revisioning the Discipline (Robert K. Johnston)

Section 1: Moving Beyond a "Literary" Paradigm

1. Seeing and Believing: Film Theory as a Window into a Visual Faith (Craig Detweiler)

2. The Color of Sound: Music and Meaning Making in Film (Barry Taylor)

Section 2: Broadening Our Film Selection

3. World Cinema: Opportunities for Dialogue with Religion and Theology (Gaye Williams Ortiz)

4. Letters on Better Movies (Sara Anson Vaux)

Section 3: Extending Our Conversation Partners

5. Film and the Subjective Turn: How the Sociology of Religion Can Contribute to Theological Readings of Film (Gordon Lynch)

6. Hollywood Chronicles: Toward an Intersection of Church History and Film History (Terry Lindvall)

Section 4: Engaging the Viewer

7. On Dealing with What Films Actually Do to People: The Practice and Theory of Film Watching in Theology/Religion and Film Discussion (Clive Marsh)

8. Polanyi's Personal Knowledge and Watching Movies (Rebecca Ver Straten-McSparran)

9. Películas--¿Through Whose Lenses? Going to the Movies with Latinas in LA (Catherine M. Barsotti)

Section 5: Reconsidering the Normative

10. Theology and Film: Interreligious Dialogue and Theology (John Lyden)

11. From Film Emotion to Normative Criticism (Mitch Avila)

12. From Bultmann to Burton, Demythologizing the Big Fish: The Contribution of Modern Christian Theologians to the Theology-Film Conversation (Christopher Deacy)

Section 6: Making Use of Our Theological Traditions

13. Shaping Morals, Shifting Views: Have the Rating Systems Influenced How (Christian) America Sees Movies? (Rose Pacatte, FSP)

14. Within the Image: Film as Icon (Gerard Loughlin)

15. Transformative Viewing: Penetrating the Story's Surface (Robert K. Johnston)