Peculiar portrayals Mormons on the page, stage, and screen
In a time when Mormons appear to have larger roles in everything from political conflict to television shows and when Mormon-related topics seem to show up more frequently in the news, eight scholars take a close look at Mormonism in popular media: film, television, theater, and books. Some contribu...
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press
c2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432630506719 |
Table of Contents:
- Center and periphery: Mormons and American culture in Tony Kushner's Angels in America / Cristine Hutchison-Jones
- Four consenting adults in the privacy of their own suburb: Big love and the cultural significance of Mormon polygamy / Michael Austin
- Teaching under the banner of heaven: testing the limits of tolerance in America / Kevin Kolkmeyer
- Avenging angels: the Nephi archetype and blood atonement in Neil Labute, Brian Evenson, and Levi Peterson, and the making of the Mormon American writer / J. Aaron Sanders
- Elders on the big screen: film and the globalized circulation of Mormon missionary images / John-Charles Duffy
- "I constructed in my mind a vast, panoramic picture": the miracle life of Edgar Mint and postmodern, postdenominational Mormonism / Mark T. Decker
- Jane Austen in Mollywood: mainstreaming Mormonism in Andrew Black's Pride & prejudice / Juliette Wells
- Reality corrupts, reality television corrupts absolutely / Karen D. Austin.
