[Commlist] Film as Religion 2nd Edition

We would like to announce a new publication from New York University 
Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Film as Religion, Second Edition***

Myths, Morals, and Rituals

*John C. Lyden*

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*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/film-as-religion-2nd-edition_*

Argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture.*__*

The first edition of /Film as Religion/ was one of the first texts to 
develop a framework for the analysis of the religious function of films 
for audiences. Like more formal religious institutions, films can 
provide us with ways to view the world and the values to confront it. 
Lyden argues that the cultural influence of films is analogous to that 
of religions, so that films can be understood as representing a 
“religious” worldview in their own right.

Thoroughly updating his examples, Lyden examines a range of film genres 
and individual films, from The Godfather to The Hunger Games to Frozen, 
to show how film can function religiously.*__*

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*John C. Lyden*is the Liberal Arts Core Director and Professor of 
Liberal Arts at Grand View University. Previously he was Professor and 
Chair of the Religion Department at Dana College. He is the also the 
editor of the Journal of Religion & Film as well as the Routledge 
Companion to Religion and Film, among other books.*__*

With all best wishes,*__*

Combined Academic Publishers

*New York University Press**| December 2019 | 320pp | 9781479811991 | PB 
| £22.99**

*Price subject to change.

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