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This new edition of a bestselling textbook has been substantially rewritten, mentions two hundred additional movies, and offers in-depth discussion of eight recent popular films, including March of the Penguins, Magnolia, and Million Dollar Baby . It encourages readers to ponder movie themes that permeate our culture as well as motion pictures that have demonstrated power to shape our perceptions...

God.”40 Cawkwell focuses particular attention on the directors of these films, on those masters of the use of religious stories: the Frenchman Robert Bresson, the Dane Carl Theodor Dreyer, the Italian Roberto Rossellini, and the Russian Andrey Tarkovsky. While Anker primarily concentrates on the film “text,” Malone and Pacatte turn to the film “viewer,” Godawa to the film’s “worldview,” and Cawkwell to the film’s “maker.” Here is a range of dialogue across the artistic-critical circle (see chapter
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