This book develops a new critical framework for exploring the excesses portrayed in American cinema. Each culture has its own excesses which taken together add up to a unique “madness.” American cinema reveals these excesses, painting a portrait of the specifically American madness, and, when these excesses are rolled back a little, reveals the unique strengths and genius of the American mind. The critical methods of both Left and Right are shown to have programmatic biases that make them unsuited to analysis of this transgressive material; instead a method of dramatic criticism is developed here based on Aristotle’s theory of tragedy and its cathartic possibilities. This framework is applied across a range of cinematic themes including paranoia, aggression, oedipal/Freudian themes, sexual obsession, the Apocalypse, Native Americans and cultural genocide, new age narcissism, nihilism and self-destruction, cultural autism, and virtual reality/fantasy. Finally, a look at American sanity is provided through films where dramatic excess is balanced with critical awareness.

The American Cinema of Excess: Extremes of the National Mind on Film

Humor & Entertainment

King, Mike

Movies

Stochastic Press

Watch films and discover the living religion of Judaism This unique guide to Judaism on film explores over forty cinematic productions leading up to the ten-best ever films to convey the religion on screen. This book shows that despite being a faith with few outward symbols the inner dramas of Judaism lend themselves well to cinema. Both highly popular and readily-available lesser-known films are used to explore the following themes: <ul> <li>Essential Judaism</li> <li>Musical Judaism</li> <li>Mystical Judaism</li> <li>Crazed Judaism</li> <li>Secular Judaism</li> <li>Holocaust Judaism</li> <li>Israel Judaism</li> <li>Gendered Judaism</li> <li>Family Judaism</li> </ul> This book forms both an introduction to Judaism through film for non-Jews and the basis for a film club or study group for Jews and non-Jews alike.

The Beauty of Judaism on Film

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

Mountain Calls: A Philosophical Eco Travel Romance Murder Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

This book is a comprehensive survey of religion and spirituality on film, covering both popular and arthouse movies. It seeks spiritual and moral depth, finding filmic examples across the world's faiths and sometimes in surprising places where religion has no obvious presence. Over 400 films are drawn on to shed light on issues that confront us in the serious pursuit of spirituality, culminating in the "sixty must-see films for the spiritual life." The examination of spiritual and religious questions is divided across twelve categories: <ul> <li>Spiritual Aesthetics, Nature and the Romantic</li> <li>The Esoteric, the New Age and Neoplatonism.</li> <li>Dying, Suicide and Bereavement</li> <li>Ghosts, Angels and the Afterlife</li> <li>Reincarnation and Resurrection</li> <li>Spiritual Chaos and Rubber Reality</li> <li>Wisdom, Teachers, and Disciples.</li> <li>Priests, Monks, Nuns and Spiritual Community</li> <li>Spiritual Practice, Discipline and the Martial Arts.</li> <li>Violence, Compassion, Forgiveness and Atonement</li> <li>East vs. West</li> <li>Secular vs. Spiritual</li> </ul>

Luminous: The Spiritual Life on Film

Central Lithuania: Specialized stamp catalogue

Pacholczyk, A. G.

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