Go down to L.A. land: Hollywood and God's new Israel
This essay will examine the thesis that film has become the medium of changes in the American civil religion by comparing how the traditional comparison of America to biblical Israel has played itself out in two Hollywood films: Cecil B. DeMille’sThe Ten Commandments,and Dreamworks’The Prince of Egy...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Creighton University
2001
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The journal of religion & society
Year: 2001, Volume: 3 |
| Further subjects: | B
United States; Civilization
B Civil Religion B Films; Religious aspects B Bible in film |
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| Summary: | This essay will examine the thesis that film has become the medium of changes in the American civil religion by comparing how the traditional comparison of America to biblical Israel has played itself out in two Hollywood films: Cecil B. DeMille’sThe Ten Commandments,and Dreamworks’The Prince of Egypt.These films have preserved many of the historically important themes of American civil religion, including the close relation of freedom to justice and of individualism to social commitment, but also have "hollywoodized" these themes, contributing to a civil religion that is both more individualistic and more fideistic than in the past. |
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| ISSN: | 1522-5658 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion & society
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10504/64508 |