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Syllabi August 24, 2018

American Religions: Faith and Film

Course Level Format
undergraduate
Instructor & Institution
Colleen McDannell, University of Utah
Course Term & Year
Summer 2011
A 2011 course by Colleen McDannell at the University of Utah asks "how do commercial filmmakers . . . understand religion? How does Hollywood call on religion to articulate various social, aesthetic, and economic concerns? Which social and cultural changes have made their impact on the movies?"