Missionaries in the Golden Age of Hollywood: Race, Gender, and Spirituality on the Big Screen

by Douglas Carl Abrams

Overview

This book examines major British and American missionary films during the Golden Age of Hollywood to explore the significance of race, gender, and spirituality in relation to the lives of the missionaries portrayed in film during the middle third of the twentieth century. Film both influences and reflects culture, and racial, gender, and religious identities are some of the most debated issues globally today. In the movies explored in this book, missionary interactions with various people groups reflect the historical changes which took place during this time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031191640
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	12/15/2022
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	633 KB

About the Author

Douglas Carl Abrams is Professor of History at Bob Jones University, USA.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Racist Casting, Interracial Attraction and Primitivism.- 3. Progress in Race Since 1945.- 4. Maintaining Masculinity.- 5. Traditional and Independent Women.- 6. Earthly Kingdom and Spiritual Kingdom.- 7. Class and Hierarchy.- 8. Social Christianity and Evangelism.- 9. Suffering and Apostasy.- 

Editorial Reviews

This year 2023, this lover of France has released another very valuable piece of research related to the same fields (mass culture and US Evangelicalism). It is Missionaries in the Golden Age of Hollywood, Race, Gender, and Spirituality on the Big Screen … . Congrats and thank you Douglas Carl Abrams.” (French Windows, frenchwindows.hautetfort.com, December 28, 2023)

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