Faith and Film Bibliography[1]

Bryan Stone

Boston University School of Theology

*Theology and Film*
Aichele, George and Richard Walsh, eds.
	2002	Screening Scripture: Intertextual Connections Between Scripture and Film. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press.
Anker, Roy
	2005	Catching Light: Looking for God in the Movies. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
Babington, Bruce and Peter William Evans
	1993	Biblical Epics: Sacred Narrative in the Hollywood Cinema. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Barsotti, Catherine and Robert K. Johnston
	2004	Finding God in the Movies: 33 Films of Reel Faith. Grand Rapids: Baker.
Bergeson, Albert and Andrew Greeley
	2003	God in the Movies. Transaction Publishers.
Christianson, Eric, Peter Francis, and William R. Telford, Eds.
	2005	Cinéme Divinité: Religion, Theology, and the Bible in Film. SCM Press.
Clarke, Anthony J. and Paul S. Fiddes, Eds.
	2005	Flickering Images: Theology and Film in Dialogue. Smith and Helwys.
Deacy, Christopher and Gaye Williams Ortiz
	2008	Theology and Film: Challenging the Sacred/Secular Divide. Wiley Blackwell.
Detweiler, Craig
	2008	Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21^st Century. Baker Academic.
Faller, Stephen
	2004	Beyond the Matrix: Revolutions and Revelations. St. Louis: Chalice Press.
Flesher, Paul V.M. and Robert Torry
	2007	Religion and Film: An Introduction. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press.
Fore, William F.
	1990	Mythmakers: Gospel, Culture, and the Media. Friendship Press.
Fraser, Peter
	1998	Images of the Passion: The Sacramental Mode in Film. Westport, CN: Praeger.
Garrett, Greg
	2007	The Gospel According to Hollywood. Westminster John Knox Press.
Godawa, Brian
	2002	Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment. InterVarsity Press.
Hurley, Neil
	1970	Theology through Film. New York: Harper & Row. [Renamed Toward a Film Humanism.]
	1978	The Reel Revolution: A Film Primer on Liberation. Maryknoll: Orbis Books
Jewett, Robert
	1993	Saint Paul at the Movies: The Apostle’s Dialogue with American Culture. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press.
	1998	Saint Paul Returns to the Movies: Triumph Over Shame. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
Johnston, Robert K.
	2006	Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue. Revised Edition. Grand Rapids: Baker.
	2007	Reframing Theology and Film: New Focus for an Emerging Discipline. Baker Academic.
Kreitzer, Larry
	1993	The New Testament in Fiction and Film: On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow. Sheffield Press
	1994	The Old Testament in Fiction and Film: On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow. Sheffield Press
Kupfer, Joseph H.
	1999	Visions of Virtue in Popular Film. Boulder, CO: Westview Press
Lewerenz, Spencer and Barbara Nicolosi
	2005	Behind the Screen: Hollywood Insiders on Faith, Film, and Culture. Baker Books.
Malone, Peter
	2001	Lights, Camera, Faith: A Movie Lectionary, Cycle A. Pauline Books and Media
	2002	Lights, Camera, Faith: A Movie Lectionary, Cycle B. Pauline Books and Media
	2003	Lights, Camera, Faith: A Movie Lectionary, Cycle C. Pauline Books and Media
Marsh, Clive
	2007	Theology Goes to the Movies. Routledge.
Marsh, Clive and Gaye Ortiz (eds)
	1997	Explorations in Theology and Film. Oxford: Blackwell
McDowell, John C.
	2007	The Gospel According to Star Wars: Faith, Hope, and the Force. Westminster John Knox Press.
McNulty, Edward
	2001	Praying the Movies: Daily Meditations from Classic Films. Louisville, KY: Geneva Press.
Reinhartz, Adele
	2003	Scripture on the Silver Screen. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press.
Sanders, Theresa.
	2002	Celluloid Saints: Images of Sanctity in Film. Mercer University Press.
Scott, Bernard Brandon
	1994	Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories. Minneapolis: Fortress.
Stone, Bryan P.
	2000	Faith and Film: Theological Themes at the Cinema. St. Louis: Chalice Press.
Vaux, Sara Anson
	1999	Finding Meaning at the Movies. Nashville: Abingdon
Walsh, Richard
	2005	Finding St. Paul in Film. T & T Clark
Wilson, Eric G.
	2006	Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film. Continuum

*Jesus on Film*
Babington, Bruce and Peter William Evans
	1993	“The Lives of Christ: The Greatest Story Ever Screened.” In Biblical Epics: Sacred Narrative in the Hollywood Cinema, 98-109. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Baugh, Lloyd
	1997	Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-Figures in Film. New York: Sheed & Ward.
Beal, Timothy K., and Tod Linafelt, eds.
	2005	Mel Gibson’s Bible: Religion, Popular Culture, and “The Passion of the Christ.” Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Chattaway, Peter T.
	1998	"Jesus in the Movies." Bible Review 14/1 (Feb., 1998) 28-35, 45-46
	2000	"Jesus at the Movies." Books and Culture 6/2 (March/April, 2000) 10-14.
Corley, Kathleen E. and Robert L. Webb, eds
	2004	Jesus and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ: The Film, the Gospels and the Claims of History. London and New York: Continuum.
Cunningham, Phillip A.
	2004	Pondering the Passion: What’s at Stake for Christians and Jews. Rowman and Littlefield.
Evans, Michael
	2005	Jesus, Fads, and the Media: The Passion & Popular Culture. Broomall, PA: Mason Crest Publishers.
Forshey, Gerald E.
	1992	“The Jesus Cycle.” In American Religious and Biblical Spectaculars, 83-121. Media and Society Series. Praeger Publications.
Fraser, Peter
	1998	Images of the Passion: The Sacramental Mode in Film. Praeger Publications.
Fredriksen, Paula
	2006	On the Passion of the Christ: Exploring Issues Raised by the Controversial Movie. University of California Press.
Goodacre, Mark
	2000	“The Synoptic Jesus and the Celluloid Christ: Solving the Synoptic Problem through Film.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament.
Graham, D
	1997	“Images of Christ in Recent Film.” In Images of Christ: Ancient and Modern, ed. S. Porter, M. Hayes, and D. Tombs. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
Humphries-Brooks, Stephenson
	2006	Cinematic Savior: Hollywood’s Making of the American Christ. Praeger Publishing.
Kinnard, Roy, and Tim Davis
	1992	Divine Images: A History of Jesus on the Screen. New York City: Citadel Press.
Landres, J. Shawn and Michael Berenbaum
	2004	After the Passion is Gone: American Religious Consequences. AltaMira Press.
Malone, Peter
	1990	Movie Christs and Antichrists. New York: Crossroad.
	1997	"Jesus on Our Screens." In New Image of Religious Film, ed. John R. May, 57-71. Communication, Culture, and Theology Series. Kansas City, MO: Sheed and Ward.
May, John R
	1991	“Art: Shaping Images of Christ.” In Imaging Christ: Politics, Art, Spirituality, ed. F. Eigo, 73-103. Villanova, PA: Villanova University Press.
Plate, Brent S.
	2007	“Mel Gibson’s Bible: Religion, Popular Culture, and the Passion of the Christ.” Article from Christianity and Literature. March 22, 2007.
Plate, Brent S., ed.
	2004	Re-Viewing the Passion: Mel Gibson's Film and its Critics. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Reinhartz, Adele
	1998	Adele Reinhartz, "Jesus in Film: Hollywood Perspectives on the Jewishness of Jesus." Journal of Religion and Film 2/2 (1998).
	2007	Jesus of Hollywood. Oxford University Press.
Riley, Robin
	2003	Film, Faith, and Cultural Conflict: The Case of Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Solomon, Jon
	2002	"The New Testament and Tales of the Christ." In The Ancient World in the Cinema. Revised and Expanded Edition, 176-223. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Staley, Jeffrey L. and Richard Walsh
	2007	Jesus, the Gospels, and Cinematic Imagination: A Handbook to Jesus on DVD. Westminster John Knox Press.
Stern, Richard C., et al
	1999	Savior on the Silver Screen. Paulist Press.
Tatum, W. Barnes
	1998	Jesus at the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years. Polebridge Press.
Telford, William R.
	1995	“The New Testament in Fiction and Film: A Biblical Scholars Perspective.” In Words Remembered, Texts Renewed. Essays in Honour of J. F. A. Sawyer, ed. J. G. Davies, G. Harvey, and W. Watson, 360-94. JSOTSup 195. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
	1997	“Jesus Christ Movie Star: The Depiction of Jesus in the Cinema.” In Explorations in Theology and Film, ed. Clive Marsh and Gaye Ortiz, 115-139. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Walsh, Richard
	2003	Reading the Gospels in the Dark: Portrayals of Jesus in Film. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press.

*Religion and Film*
Babington, Bruce and Peter Evans
	1993	Biblical Epics: Sacred Narrative in the Hollywood Cinema. Manchester: Manchester University Press
Bandy, Mary Lee and Antonio Monda, Eds.
	2003	The Hidden God: Film and Faith. New York: The Museum of Modern Art
Billingsley, K. L.
	1989	The Seductive Image: A Christian Critique of the World of Film. Westchester: Crossway Books.
Black, Gregory D.
	1998	The Catholic Crusade Against the Movies, 1940-1975. Cambridge University Press.
	1994	Hollywood Censored: Morality Codes, Catholics, and the Movies. New York: Cambridge University.
Blake, Richard
	1991	Screening America: Reflections on Five Classic Films. New York: Paulist Press.
	2000	Afterimage: The Indelible Catholic Imagination of Six American Filmmakers. Chicago, IL: Loyola Press.
Butler, Ivan
	1969	Religion in the Cinema. New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.
Drew, Donald
	1974	Images of Man: A Critique of the Contemporary Cinema. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press.
Forshey, Gerald
	1992	American Religious and Biblical Spectaculars. Westport, CT : Praeger.
Higgins, Gareth
	2004	How Movies Saved My Soul: Finding Spiritual Fingerprints in Culturally Significant Films.
Kuhn, Arnette
	1988	Cinema, Censorship, and Sexuality, 1909-1925. New York: Routledge.
Lyden, John
	2003	Film as Religion: Myths, Morals, Rituals. New York University Press.
Martin, Joel and Conrad Ostwalt Jr., ed.
	1995	Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular American Film. Boulder: Westview Press.
May, John R., ed.
	1992	Image and Likeness: Religious Visions in American Films. New York: Paulist Press.
	1997	New Image of Religious Film. New York: Sheed & Ward.
May, John R. and Michael Bird, eds.
	1982	Religion in Film. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Medved, Michael
	1992	Hollywood vs. America. New York: HarperPerennial.
Miles, Margaret
	1996	Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies. Boston: Beacon Press.
Mitchell, Jolyon and S. Brent Plate
	2007	Religion and Film Reader. New York: Routledge.
Newport, John
	1971	Theology and Contemporary Art Forms. Waco: Word Books.
Savary, Louis and J. Paul Carrico, ed.
	1971	Contemporary Film and the New Generation. New York: Association Press.
Schiallaci, Anthony
	1970	Movies and Morals. Notre Dame: Fides Pub.
Scott, Bernard Brandon
	1994	Hollywood Dreams & Biblical Stories. Minneapolis : Fortress Press.
Sharrett, Christopher, ed.
	1993	Crisis Cinema: The Apocalyptic Idea in Postmodern Narrative Film. Washington: Maisonneuve Press.
Valenti, F. Miguel
	2000	More Than a Movie: Ethics in Entertainment. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Wall, James
	1971	Church and Cinema: A Way of Viewing Film. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
Walsh, Frank
	1976	Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry. New Haven: Yale University.
Watkins, Gregory J.
	2008	Teaching Religion and Film. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wright, Melanie J.
	2006	Religion and Film: An Introduction. New York: I.B. Tauris

*Film and Christian Ministry Resources*
Reel to Real: Making the Most of the Movies with Youth, (Abingdon) – in several volumes; an excellent resource for using film with young people in church schools or youth groups.

Videos That Teach: Teachable Movie Moments from 75 Modern Film Classics, Doug Fields & Eddie James (Zondervan, 1999) – created by youth workers who wanted to liven up their messages with film clips that either illustrate a point or ask probing questions for youth.

Films and Faith: Forty Discussion Guides, Edward McNulty (Viaticum Press) – includes discussion guides. McNulty also is the editor of Visual Parables and has a book entitled Praying the Movies (Viaticum Press) and VBS curriculum for Babe and Hunchback of Notre Dame.