Love in the afterlife : underground religion at the movies /

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Author / Creator:Striner, Richard, 1950- author.
Imprint:Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, New Jersey [2016]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13583287
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ISBN:9781611478853
1611478855
9781611478846
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other form:Print version: Striner, Richard, 1950- Love in the afterlife. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, New Jersey [2016] 9781611478846
Table of Contents:
  • Philosophic and literary sources
  • The cultural milieu after World War I and the seminal plays
  • The "mythical method" as applied to the plot template of supernatural romance
  • Berkeley Square and the philosophic problem of time
  • The "second wave" of plays and the milieu of the Second World War
  • The ghost and Mrs. Muir and the applications of theology in supernatural romance
  • The tradition evolves
  • Conclusion: underground religion
  • Appendix one: case study: the making of what dreams may come
  • Appendix two: other patters in film that justify additional study
  • Appendix three: production data for supernatural romances and related films.