Small screen, big picture television and lived religion / Diane Winston, editor.
| Other author | Winston, Diane H., 1951- |
| Other author | American Council of Learned Societies. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, |
| Description | viii, 527 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1. Old wine in new skins. True believers and atheists need not apply : faith and mainstream television drama / S. Elizabeth Bird -- In the beginning... Deadwood / Horace Newcomb -- The wire : playing the game / Craig Detweiler -- "For what I have done and what I have failed to do" : vernacular Catholicism and The west wing / Leonardo Norman Primiano -- Mixed blessing : generational effects of interfaith marriage in Everwood and the O.C. / Vincent Brook -- "The fire next time" : Sleeper cell and Muslims on television post-9/11 / Amir Hussain -- 2. Neither male nor female. "Elect Xena God" : religion remixed in a (post-)television culture / Sheila Briggs -- "You know how it is with nuns..." : religion and television's sacred/secular fetuses / Heather Hendershot -- Moralizing whiteness in Joan of Arcadia / Lanita Jacobs-Huey -- "A vagina ain't a halo" : gender and religion in Saving grace and Battlestar galactica / Andrea D. Butler, Diane Winston -- 3. Revelation. "Chiariidaa o sukue, sekai o sukue!" : nuclear dread and the Pokémonization of American religion / Rudy V. Busto -- You lost me : mystery, fandom, and religion in ABC's Lost / Lynn Schofield Clark -- "Have a little faith" : religious vision in Fox's Prison break / Marcia Alesan Dawkins -- "Who am I? Where am I going?" : life, death, and religion in the Sopranos / Adele Reinhartz -- A television auteur confronts God : the religious imagination of Tom Fontana / Elijah Siegler. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-511) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008029712 |
| ISBN | 9781602581852 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1602581851 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |