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Useless beauty : Ecclesiastes through the lens of contemporary film /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnston, Robert K., 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, [2004]
Subjects:
Bible. > Ecclesiastes > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Motion pictures > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • A battered optimism : Ecclesiastes and our contemporary context
  • The existentialist alternative : Akira Kurosawa and Woody Allen
  • Death and life : Alan Ball and American beauty
  • The saddest happy ending : Paul Thomas Anderson and Magnolia
  • Chance and fate : Tom Tykwer and Run Lola run
  • An ambiguous joy : Marc Forster and Monster's ball
  • Can God be in this? : M. Night Shyamalan and Signs
  • Confessions of a workaholic : Alexander Payne, election, and about Schmidt
  • Humanity at full stretch : let the preacher respond.