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Missionaries in the Golden Age of Hollywood : Race, Gender, and Spirituality on the Big Screen / by Douglas Carl Abrams

1st ed. 2023.

Cham : Springer International Publishing [2023.] ; Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan [2023.], 2023

1 Online-Ressource(XX, 246 p.)

Englisch

Erscheint auch als: Missionaries in the golden age of Hollywood / Abrams, Douglas Carl (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-3-031-19164-0

978-3-031-19163-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-3-031-19165-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-3-031-19166-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1007/978-3-031-19164-0

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*Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles, Calif.) ; Evangelisation ; Geschichte 1910-1960     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Civilization—History. ; Religion—History. ; Motion pictures—History. ; History, Modern. ; Civilization ; Religion ; Motion pictures

Filmgeschichte, Filmtheorie und Filmkritik ; Films, cinema ; Geschichte der Religion ; HISTORY / Modern / General ; HISTORY / Social History ; History of religion ; History: earliest times to present day ; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism ; RELIGION / History ; Social & cultural history ; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte

1. Introduction -- 2. Racist Casting, Interracial Attraction and Primitivism -- 3. Progress in Race Since 1945 -- 4. Maintaining Masculinity -- 5. Traditional and Independent Women -- 6. Earthly Kingdom and Spiritual Kingdom -- 7. Class and Hierarchy -- 8. Social Christianity and Evangelism -- 9. Suffering and Apostasy -- .

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This book examines major British and American missionary films during the Golden Age of Hollywood to explore the significance of race, gender, and spirituality in relation to the lives of the missionaries portrayed in film during the middle third of the twentieth century. Film both influences and reflects culture, and racial, gender, and religious identities are some of the most debated issues globally today. In the movies explored in this book, missionary interactions with various people groups reflect the historical changes which took place during this time.