As I have mentioned in other reviews of film and religion books, the interdisciplinary field is in something of its teenage years.  While it is a particularly strong field, it is at a point in its life where it must decide…or articulate…which path(s) it will take.  In his collection of essays, Teaching Religion and Film, [...]

We are quickly approaching the four year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.  I was living in Charlottesville, Virginia, at that time and was forced to keep up with those tragic events from news accounts and phone calls with family and friends.  The images on the screen and the stories I heard seemed literally otherworldly…the storm and [...]

In his only talking role in The Unholy Three , silent film star Lon Chaney plays a ventriloquist-turned-crook who takes the fall for a crime that he didn’t commit so that the woman he loves can be with the man that she loves.  As they part, he tells her, “That’s all there is to life, a [...]