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FILM
Gospel of dollars: Is Hollywood becoming Holywood?
IN
THE NORTHEAST
•
Bryan P. Stone is a professor of evangelism at Boston University School
of Theology. He wrote Faith and Film: Theological Themes at the Cinema
(Chalice Press, 2000). Contact 617-353-2456, bpstone@bu.edu.
• Cliff
Guthrie teaches “Reel Theology: Faith and the Movies” at Bangor Theological
Seminary in Bangor, Maine. 207-942-6781 x117, cguthrie@bts.edu.
IN
THE EAST
•
Eric Michael Mazur chairs the religion department at Bucknell University in
Lewisburg, Pa., and is editor of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Film
(Greenwood, forthcoming). He teaches popular culture and religion. Contact 570-577-3525,
mazur@bucknell.edu.
• Heather Hendershot
teaches media studies at the City University of New York at Flushing and wrote
Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture
(University of Chicago Press, 2004). Contact 212-817-8361, hshot@earthlink.net.
• Rachel Wagner
teaches in the department of philosophy and religion at Ithaca College in New
York. She is interested in religion in film and in new media. She is on the
editorial board of The
Journal of Religion and Film. Contact rwagner@ithaca.edu.
IN
THE SOUTHEAST
• W. Barnes Tatum teaches in the department of religion and philosophy
at Greensboro College in Greensboro, N.C., and is the author of Jesus at
the Movies: A Guide to the First Hundred Years (Polebridge Press, 1997).
Contact 336-272-7102 ext. 299, tatumb@gborocollege.edu.
• Mark Goodacre teaches New Testament at Duke University and said Sept.
30 in his blog that
he is looking forward to The Nativity Story. Contact 919-660-3503, goodacre@duke.edu.
IN
THE SOUTH
• John R. May teaches religion and film at Louisiana State University in
Baton Rouge and edited Image & Likeness: Religious Visions in American
Film Classics (Paulist Press, 1992). Contact 225-578-3129, jmay2@lsu.edu.
• Mark Hulsether
teaches in the department of religious studies at the University of Tennessee
in Knoxville. He specializes in popular religion. Contact 865-974-2466, mhulseth@utk.edu.
IN
THE MIDWEST
• The
Rev. Ed McNulty, a retired Presbyterian minister in the Cincinnati area, publishes
Visual Parables, a journal
that examines faith in films. Dialogs of Faith and Films (Westminster
John Knox, 2007) is the working title of his new book. Contact 859-493-0286,
mcnulty@fuse.net.
• Roy Anker
is a professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., and author
of Catching Light: Looking for God in the Movies (Eerdmans, 2004). He
says most movies based on biblical retellings go for epic scale rather than
the humanity of God. Contact 616-526-6530, anker@calvin.edu.
IN
THE SOUTHWEST
• Jeffrey
Howard Mahan is academic vice president and a professor of ministry, media and
culture at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver who has written extensively
on religion and popular culture. Contact 303-765-3183, jmahan@iliff.edu.
• Gregory Robbins
is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Denver.
His interest is film studies, and he has taught the course “Jesus on the Silver
Screen.” Contact 303-871-2751, grobbins@du.edu.
• Russell Dalton
teaches at Brite Divinity School of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.
He has written about the Christian uses of fantasy and is interested in the
use of popular media for religious education. Contact 817-257-6812, r.dalton@tcu.edu.
IN
THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Craig
Detweiler is an associate professor and chairman of mass communication at
Biola University in La Mirada, Calif. He’s also a screenwriter and co-author
of A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture (Baker Academic,
2003). Contact craig.detweiler@biola.edu.
• Joseph L.
Price is a professor of religious studies at Whittier College in Whittier, Calif.
He teaches a course on religion and film. Contact 562-907-4803, jprice@whittier.edu.
• Erin Runions
teaches in the religious studies department at Pomona College in Claremont,
Calif. She has written about the Bible and film. Contact 909-607-0479, Erin.Runions@pomona.edu.
• Greg Watkins
is a filmmaker and lecturer at Stanford University. He directed A Sign from
God, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000. Contact gwatkins@stanford.edu.
• Jeff Staley
is an adjunct professor of New Testament at Seattle University. He co-edited
Jesus, Son of D• V• D: A Handbook of Jesus Films (Westminster
John Knox, forthcoming in 2007), an analysis of 18 Jesus films available on
DVD. He says directors of Jesus movies tend to draw more on their film predecessors
than on the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ birth, and that Joseph and Mary in The
Nativity Story will probably resemble a reasonably happy American couple.
Contact 206-296-5323, staleyj@seattleu.edu.
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