Missionaries in the Golden Age of Hollywood : race, gender, and spirituality on the big screen / Douglas Carl Abrams.
This book examines major British and American missionary films during the Golden Age of Hollywood to explore the significance of race, gender, and spirituality in relation to the lives of the missionaries portrayed in film during the middle third of the twentieth century. Film both influences and re...
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| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2023.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in the history of the media,
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Racist Casting, Interracial Attraction and Primitivism
- 3. Progress in Race Since 1945
- 4. Maintaining Masculinity
- 5. Traditional and Independent Women
- 6. Earthly Kingdom and Spiritual Kingdom
- 7. Class and Hierarchy
- 8. Social Christianity and Evangelism
- 9. Suffering and Apostasy.