Category Archives: Gospel and Film
Tudor Morality Plays and Modern Cinema: Forgiveness, Repentance, and the Four Last Things
This is a series of posts on Tudor Morality Plays and Modern Cinema (Set, Costumes, and Dance of Death; Central Character, Ritual in morality plays and Repo Men; Forgiveness of Sins). It might benefit one to read the previous posts prior to this one. … Continue reading
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Tudor Morality Plays in Modern Cinema: Forgiveness of Sins
[see previous posts on Tudor Morality Plays: pt 1, pt 2, pt 3] The morality plays have frequently been mistaken for naïve treatises on virtue. They are in fact the call to a specific religious act.[1] In the thirteenth century, … Continue reading
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Tudor Morality Plays in Modern Cinema: Ritual in morality plays and Repo Men
This post continues the series on Tudor Morality Plays and their ongoing presence in modern cinema. The earlier posts, entitled Set, Costumes, and Dance of Death, and Central Character can be read in these links. The issue of ritual to … Continue reading
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Tudor Morality Plays in Modern Cinema: Central Character
An earlier post, entitled Set, Costumes, and Dance of Death, began a series of posts about the relationship between Tudor morality plays and modern cinema. I want to continue that series here addressing the central of lead character’s role in … Continue reading
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Tudor Morality Plays in modern cinema: Set, Costumes, and Dance of Death
Medieval period morality plays arose out a desire to educate the common person about moral values based on biblical principles. The basic concepts of morality plays are clearly evident in Elizabethan plays through the time of Shakespeare and remain evident … Continue reading
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Superheroes and Society: What Batman and the X-Men Tell Us About Culture and About Ourselves
Here is an interesting article on cultural apologetics. Check out Superheroes and Society: What Batman and the X-Men Tell Us About Culture and About Ourselves
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