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Author Zierler, Wendy, author.

Title Movies and Midrash : popular film and Jewish religious conversation / Wendy I. Zierler ; foreword by Eugene B. Borowitz.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 309 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Chapter 1. The Truman show: truth -- Chapter 2. Magnolia: confession and redemption -- Chapter 3. The descendants: birthright -- Chapter 4. Memento: memory -- Chapter 5. Crimes and misdemeanors: sin -- Chapter 6. Forrest gump: cleverness and simplicity -- Chapter 7. The King's speech: speaking God's word -- Chapter 8. Stranger than fiction: God as author -- Chapter 9. A serious man: parables of Jewishness -- Chapter 10. Exam: tests, trials, and attachments -- Chapter 11. The hunger games: in God's image -- Conclusion: Moonrise Kingdom: and the youth shall see visions.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Motion pictures -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Motion pictures -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Borowitz, Eugene B., author of foreword.
Other Form: Print version: Zierler, Wendy. Midrash and movies. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017] 9781438466156 (DLC) 2016040642
ISBN 9781438466163 (electronic book)
1438466161 (electronic book)
9781438466156 (hardcover)