Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- An Overview -- With Thanks -- Part One: Current Approaches to Religious Film Analysis -- Introduction to Part One -- 1 Phenomenological Interpretations: Film as Sacrament -- André Bazin: The Parameters of Cinematic Protestantism -- Paul Schrader: 'Protestant cinematic sacramentalism' -- Other Cinematic Sacramentalists: Cunneen, Bird and Fraser -- Critique of Cinematic Style as Sacrament -- Two Other Phenomenological Interpretations: Martin and Thompson -- 2 Literary Interpretations: Film as Visual Story -- The Auteur in Theological Film Criticism: Kreitzer -- The Missed Point of the Emerging Orthodoxy: Deacy -- 3 Anthropological Interpretations: Film as Religion -- Lyden: 'film itself functions as a religion' -- Marsh: the 'religion-like function of film' -- Part Two: Representation in Liturgy and Film -- Introduction to Part Two -- 4 Liturgical Representation: 'Others', Narratives and Ideological 'Realities' -- The Liturgical 'other': Priestly Representation -- Sacramental Narrative of the Cross -- Participation in the Ideological 'Reality' of Episcopal/Ecclesial Authority -- 5 Cinematic Representation: 'Others', Narratives and Ideological 'realities' -- The Cinematic 'Other': The Film Star/Hero -- 'Ordinary guy/extraordinary situation': The Overcoming-the-Other Narrative -- Participation in the Ideological 'Reality' of Hollywood Realism -- Part Three: What Can Film Theory Offer Liturgy? -- Introduction to Part Three -- 6 Cinematic Identification: Suture and Narrative Space -- Cinematic Perspective and Narrative Space -- Jean-Pierre Oudart and Stephen Heath: Suturing the Subject in Cinematic Discourse -- Slavoj Žižek: When Suture Fails -- Critique of the Subject Sutured in Cinematic Discourse -- 7 Suturing Suture: Joining the Theory Together.

Cinematic Impression of Reality as Unconscious Effect -- Cinematic Discourse and Lacan's Linguistic Theory of Dreams -- Suturing Identity with a Cinematic Other, Suturing Subjectivity -- 8 Suturing Religious Identity in the Sacramental Narrative -- Identification with the Priest as a Liturgical Representation -- Joining the Narrative and Participating in Its 'Reality' -- By Way of Analysis -- Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan) -- Bewitched (Nora Ephron) -- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton) -- Conclusion: A Third Task - Moving beyond the 'So what!' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Bibliography of Religion and Film -- Select Bibliography -- Indexes -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- Z -- Film Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.