| Description |
viii, 527 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-511) and index. |
| 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 Amerian 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. |
| Subject |
Television broadcasting -- Religious aspects.
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Religion on television.
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| Added Author |
Winston, Diane H., 1951-
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| Other Form: |
Original 9781602581852 (DLC) 2008029712 |
| Standard No. |
2027/heb30731 hdl |
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