Front cover image for Christmas on the Screen Reviewing the Evolution of American Spirituality

Christmas on the Screen Reviewing the Evolution of American Spirituality

eBook, English, 2021
Pilgrim Press, Cleveland, OH, 2021
1 online resource (191 p.)
9780829821765, 0829821767
1281975819
Intro
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
1. What Is a Christmas Movie?
2. The Birth Narrative of Jesus on Film
3. How A Christmas Carol Shaped the Christmas Movie Genre
4. Scroogelike Characters
5. The First Wave
6. George Bailey as a Modern-Day Job
7. The Christmas Film at Its Most Probing
8. Rankin-Bass and the Second Wave
9. Rankin and Bass
10. The Third Wave
11. Christmas and the Family under Siege
12. I'm Dreaming of a Dark Christmas
13. The Minority Report
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Back Cover
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