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Film as religious experience: Myths and models in mass entertainment
Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 15 (3-4):435-446 (2003)
Abstract
Popular film has become a significant venue for meaning‐making in modern society. Like religion, film provides models for understanding and behaving within the social world. Like religion, film reinforces this content through emotional resonance. Myths slip under a viewer's intellectual defenses in the non‐threatening guise of entertainment. In a mainstream culture skeptical of religion, film presents an alternative mechanism for the transmission and processing of “religious” ideas and ideals.My notes
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