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The Spirit and the Screen explores pertinent pneumatological issues that arise in film and asks how Christian convictions and experiences of the Spirit might shape the way one thinks about films and film-making.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Beginnings and Aspirations (or: The Spirit Glows Where It Wills)
Chris E.W. Green
Part 1 | The Spirit and the Nature of Film(making)
Chapter 2 The Move of the Spirit: Pneumatology and Temporality in Malick's Cinema
Chris E.W. Green
Chapter 3 Feed the Birds: Mary Poppins, Film Musicals, and the Spirit of Life
Kutter Callaway
Chapter 4 Traditioning and the Spirit in Martin Scorsese's Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
Jeffrey S. Lamp
Chapter 5 Power of the Spirit: Sayers and Cinema
Crystal L. Downing
Part 2 | Spirit Figures
Chapter 6 POWER. GRACE. WISDOM. WONDER.: The Paraclete in Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman
Steven Félix-Jäger
Chapter 7 Exegeting Samwise the (Brave) Advocate
Lucia M. Sanders
Chapter 8 Paciencia y Fe: The Spirited Presence of Abuela Claudia in In the Heights
Wilmer Estrada-Carrasquillo
Chapter 9 The Spirit and the Bride say, 'Come': A Pneumatological Exploration of Te Fiti in Disney's Moana
D. Coleby Delgado
Part 3 | The Spirit-led Life
Chapter 10 The Hospitality of the Spirit in Encanto
"Joey" Alan Le
Chapter 11 'Leave Six Inches for the Holy Spirit': Lady Bird Comes of Age
Gaye Williams Morris
Chapter 12 Spiritus Absconditus: Listening to the Holy Spirit in Des Hommes et des Dieux
Sid D. Sudiacal
Chapter 13 A Hidden Life: Nonviolent Civil Disobedience and the Spirit of God in an Age of Totalitarianism
Robby Waddell
Chapter 14 Conclusion: Collective Themes and Common Threads
Steven Félix-Jäger
About the author
Chris E.W. Green is professor of public theology at Southeastern University and the director of the St Anthony Institute of Theology, Philosophy, and Liturgics.
Steven Félix-Jäger is associate professor and chair of the Worship Arts and Media program at Life Pacific University.
