Catholics in the Movies

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Catholics in the Movies is written by Colleen McDannell and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190294418 (ISBN 10) and 9780190294410 (ISBN 13).

The common admission that "everything I know about religion I learned from the movies" is true for believers as much as for unbelievers. And at the movies, Catholicism is the American religion. As an intensely visual faith with a well-defined ritual and authority structure, Catholicism lends itself to the drama and pageantry of film. Beginning with the silent era of film and ending with movies today, eleven prominent scholars explore how Catholic characters, spaces, and rituals are represented in cinema.