Religion and Film in America

3 units

This course attends to how religion, religious groups, and religious practices have been historically represented in the American popular culture, specifically, film. This course will consider film as more than simple entertainment. We will examine not only how in the United States film has functioned as a means to establish what counts as religion, but also how and with what results imaginations of religion in film helped and continues to help to socially construct conceptions of gender, race, and ethnicity.