A Long, Long Way
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-090625-2 (ISBN)
In this powerful new book, Greg Garrett brings his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism to bear on this history. After more than a century of cinema, he argues, movies have altered our cultural perspectives in the same way that religious narratives have. And in fact, religious traditions offer powerful correctives to our cultural narratives. A Long, Long Way incorporates both cinematic and religious truth-telling to the subject of race and reconciliation. In acknowledging the racist history of America's national art form, Garrett offers the possibility of hope for the future.
Greg Garrett is the author of four acclaimed novels, two books of memoir, and twenty nonfiction works on faith, politics, race, culture, and narrative, and is, according to BBC Radio, one of America's essential voices on religion and culture. An award-winning Professor of English at Baylor University, Greg also serves as Theologian in Residence at the American Cathedral in Paris, and is an elected member of the Texas Institute of Letters. He lives in Austin with his wife Jeanie and their family.
Introduction: A Long, Long Way
The Birth of a Nation: Seeing the Other as Subhuman
Best Supporting Actors: Casablanca, Friendship, and the Beloved Community
"That's the Glory of Love": Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and the Power of Love
Do the Right Thing: Together Are We Going to Live?
Crashing into Each Other: Crash as Multicultural Post-9/11 Fable
Get Out: Black Bodies Matter
Conclusion: Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope
Erscheinungsdatum | 12.06.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | 10 illustrations |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 218 x 145 mm |
Gewicht | 408 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-090625-1 / 0190906251 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-090625-2 / 9780190906252 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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