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Peculiar portrayals: Mormons on the page, stage, and screen

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dc.contributor.authorDecker, Mark T., editor
dc.contributor.authorAustin, Michael, editor
dc.contributor.authorUtah State University Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:47:15Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:47:15Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractIn a time when Mormons appear to have larger roles in everything from political conflict to television shows and when Mormon-related topics seem to show up more frequently in the news, eight scholars take a close look at Mormonism in popular media: film, television, theater, and books. Some authors examine specific works, including the Tony-winning play Angels in America, the hit TV series Big Love, and the bestselling books Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith and The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint. Others consider the phenomena of Mormon cinema and Mormon fiction the use of the Mormon missionary as a stock character in films and the noticeably prominent presence of Mormons in reality television shows.--Provided by publisher.
dc.description.tableofcontentsCenter and periphery: Mormons and American culture in Tony Kushner's Angels in America / Cristine Hutchison-Jones -- Four consenting adults in the privacy of their own suburb: Big love and the cultural significance of Mormon polygamy / Michael Austin -- Teaching under the banner of heaven: testing the limits of tolerance in America / Kevin Kolkmeyer -- Avenging angels: the Nephi archetype and blood atonement in Neil LaBute, Brian Evenson, and Levi Peterson, and the making of the Mormon American writer / J. Aaron Sanders -- Elders on the big screen: film and the globalized circulation of Mormon missionary images / John-Charles Duffy -- "I constructed in my mind a vast, panoramic picture": the miracle life of Edgar Mint and postmodern, postdenominational Mormonism / Mark T. Decker -- Jane Austen in Mollywood: mainstreaming Mormonism in Andrew Black's Pride & prejudice / Juliette Wells -- Reality corrupts, reality television corrupts absolutely / Karen D. Austin.
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/87966
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subjectMormons in mass media
dc.titlePeculiar portrayals: Mormons on the page, stage, and screen
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