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Useless beauty : Ecclesiastes through the lens of contemporary film / Robert K. Johnston.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Eugene, OR. : WIPF& STOCK, c2004.Description: 208 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781610978293
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS1475.52 .J64 2004
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Contents:
A battered optimism : Ecclesiastes and our contemporary context -- The existentialist alternative : Akira Kurosawa and Woody Allen -- Death and life : Alan Ball and American beauty -- The saddest happy ending : Paul Thomas Anderson and Magnolia -- Chance and fate : Tom Tykwer and Run Lola run -- An ambiguous joy : Marc Forster and Monster's ball -- Can God be in this? : M. Night Shyamalan and Signs -- Confessions of a workaholic : Alexander Payne, election, and about Schmidt -- Humanity at full stretch : let the preacher respond.
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BS 1465.53 .B75 [1968] Proverbs : BS 1465.53 .P38 2015 Proverbs and Ecclesiastes / BS 1475.52 .D68 2006 Ecclesiastes : BS 1475.52 .J64 2004 Useless beauty : BS 1475.52 .J64 2004 Useless beauty : BS 1475.52 .L45 2008 Solomon among the postmoderns / BS 1475.52 .L45 2008 Solomon among the postmoderns /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-200) and index.

A battered optimism : Ecclesiastes and our contemporary context -- The existentialist alternative : Akira Kurosawa and Woody Allen -- Death and life : Alan Ball and American beauty -- The saddest happy ending : Paul Thomas Anderson and Magnolia -- Chance and fate : Tom Tykwer and Run Lola run -- An ambiguous joy : Marc Forster and Monster's ball -- Can God be in this? : M. Night Shyamalan and Signs -- Confessions of a workaholic : Alexander Payne, election, and about Schmidt -- Humanity at full stretch : let the preacher respond.