From Jesus

to Donnie Darko:

 

Six Critical Inquiries of Religion and Cinema

 

DL002231 - Detail of Face from the Shroud of Turin Patton Dodd

Mel Gibson, Religious Conservatives and the Marketing of Biblical Cinema

 

Christine Hoff Kraemer

Wrestling with Flesh, Wrestling with Spirit: The Painful Consequences of Dualism in The Last Temptation of Christ

 

Chris Link

Humbert Devil, Humbert Saint: Some Religious Motifs in Lolita and Its  Film Adaptations

 

Thomas Nesbit

The Chrysler Building as Sacred Space in Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 3

 

Joshua Pederson

 Confusion in the Convent: Searching for Zones of Lesbian Representability in Production Code-Era Nun Films

 

Dennis Prater

Delusion, Divine Intervention, Repetition:  Donnie Darko’s Mad World

 

 

Students from Boston University’s graduate program in Religion and Literature will showcase a variety of approaches to religion and film as an emerging area in the field of religious studies. These lectures, grounded in close readings of a variety of films, will explore a number of issues including the impact of film adaptations on religious texts, the cultural reception of cinematic portrayals of religion, and the potential for films to serve as contemporary religious texts. 

 

Saturday, November 15, 2003

10:00am to 4:30pm

CAS 211