Peculiar Portrayals : Mormons on the Page, Stage and Screen / edited by Mark T. Decker and Michael Austin.

Other author Austin, Michael, 1966-
Other author Decker, Mark T.
Other author Project Muse.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLogan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2010. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Description1 online resource (203 pages :) : illustrations ;
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SeriesBook collections on Project MUSE. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Center and periphery: Mormons and American culture in Tony Kushner's Angels in America / Cristine Hutchison-Jones -- Four consenting adults in the privacy of their own suburb: Big love and the cultural significance of Mormon polygamy / Michael Austin -- Teaching under the banner of heaven: testing the limits of tolerance in America / Kevin Kolkmeyer -- Avenging angels: the Nephi archetype and blood atonement in Neil Labute, Brian Evenson, and Levi Peterson, and the making of the Mormon American writer / J. Aaron Sanders -- Elders on the big screen: film and the globalized circulation of Mormon missionary images / John-Charles Duffy -- "I constructed in my mind a vast, panoramic picture": the miracle life of Edgar Mint and postmodern, postdenominational Mormonism / Mark T. Decker -- Jane Austen in Mollywood: mainstreaming Mormonism in Andrew Black's Pride & prejudice / Juliette Wells -- Reality corrupts, reality television corrupts absolutely / Karen D. Austin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010000780
ISBN9780874217742