Catching Light

Anker examines 19 popular films, showing how they convey a range of striking perspectives on the human encounter with God. Organized by genre, these selected films present different, surprising ways in which God shows up amid the messy circumstances of life.

Roy M. Anker is professor of English at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Darkness Visible	p. 19
Utterly Lost: Michael Corleone's Descent in The Godfather Saga	p. 24
"The Design of Darkness to Appall": Metaphysical Evil in Chinatown	p. 67
"Just Come Home": Violence and Redemption in The Deer Hunter	p. 92
Light Shines in the Darkness	p. 119
"The Wings of a Dove": The Search for Home in Tender Mercies	p. 124
The Place Beyond Words: Image and Meaning in Places in the Heart	p. 143
The Laughter Beyond Tears: Love's Redemptive Call in The Mission	p. 162
"In the Regions of the Heart": The Meeting of Art and Belief in Babette's Feast	p. 191
Fables of Light	p. 215
Tracking the Force: Meaning and Morality in the Star Wars Saga	p. 220
The Super-Man: Displaying the Incarnation in Superman	p. 244
"Earth's the Place for Love": The Lost Boy's Search for Home in Three Steven Spielberg Movies	p. 270
Found	p. 315
Of Angels and Headaches: The Unexpected God of Grand Canyon	p. 318
The War of the Roses: Meaning and Epiphany in American Beauty	p. 345
The Sound of the Color of Love: The Construction of Meaning in Kieslowski's Three Colors: Blue	p. 364
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