Small screen, big picture

Small screen, big picture: television and lived religion

by Winston, Diane H.

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Describes how television converts social concerns, cultural conundrums and metaphysical questions into stories that explore and even shape who we are and would like to be--the building blocks of religious speculation.

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  • Full title :Small screen, big picture : television and lived religion / Diane Winston, editor.

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Describes how television converts social concerns, cultural conundrums and metaphysical questions into stories that explore and even shape who we are and would like to be--the building blocks of religious speculation.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2009.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:viii, 527 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781602581852, 1602581851, 1481314793, 9781481314794
  • oclc:ocn234073744
  • LC Classification:PN1992.6
  • Dewey Decimal:791.45/682

Table of 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 American religion / Rudy V. Busto -- You lost me : mystery, fandom, and religion in ABC's Lost / Lynn Schofield Clark -- "Have a little faith…

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Subjects

Religion à la télévision Religion on television Religiösa tv-program -- Förenta staterna Télévision -- Aspect religieux Television broadcasting Television broadcasting -- Religious as… Televivision programs Tv-program -- religiösa aspekter -- För…

Writers

Winston, Diane H.

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