Oxford University Press

Since the birth of cinema at the end of the nineteenth century religion and film        have been entwined. The Jesus-story and other religious narratives were the subject        matter of some of the earliest cinema productions and this relationship has        continued into the present. A recent proliferation of texts, conferences and...

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Gary Scott Smith poses two major questions: How have Americans viewed heaven? And how have they believed people get there? He argues that Americans in all periods have agreed about some aspects of heavenly life, but that the predominant conception of heaven has varied from era to era because of the close connection of depictions of paradise with...

When Barack Obama praised the writings of philosopher theologian Reinhold Niebuhr        in the run up to the 2008 US Presidential Elections, he joined a long line of top        politicians who closely engaged with Niebuhr's ideas, including Tony Benn, Jimmy        Carter, Martin Luther King Jr. and Dennis Healey.Beginning with his early...

Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth is a broad cultural study that connects the rise of film to the rise of America as a cultural center and world power in the twentieth century. Cohen argues that through the medium of film, America was able to sever its literary and linguistic ties to Europe, assert its cultural independence, and...