Images of the Passion: The Sacramental Mode in Film

The Christian faith has had a powerful impact on every sphere of art in the West. While the Church, particularly in the United States in the 20th Century, cautions against the potential dangers of film as a corrosive influence on society, films emerge which are recognized as masterpieces of Christian art. In this original new book, Peter Fraser analyzes sacramental films, where the narrative has been disrupted and redeemed by a divine presence, in an analogy to Christian liturgical and devotional patterns. This presence transforms the film's narrative into the most recognizable of all Christian narrative patterns: the Passion.
Fraser examines the films which best portray Christ's Passion, and he provides a theoretical discussion of this unique and neglected genre of filmmaking. Chapters offer a close reading of important films with spiritual content, including On the Waterfront, Diary of a Country Priest, Hardcore, The Mission, Andrej Rubl^Dev, Black Robe, You Only Live Once, and Rome, Open City. Fraser concludes with a chapter on the development of the Biblical epic.

Humor & Entertainment

FRASER, Peter

Movies

Praeger Pub Text

The Christian faith has had a powerful impact on every sphere of art in the West. While the Church, particularly in the United States in the 20th Century, cautions against the potential dangers of film as a corrosive influence on society, films emerge which are recognized as masterpieces of Christian art. In this original new book, Peter Fraser analyzes sacramental films, where the narrative has been disrupted and redeemed by a divine presence, in an analogy to Christian liturgical and devotional patterns. This presence transforms the film's narrative into the most recognizable of all Christian narrative patterns: the Passion.
Fraser examines the films which best portray Christ's Passion, and he provides a theoretical discussion of this unique and neglected genre of filmmaking. Chapters offer a close reading of important films with spiritual content, including On the Waterfront, Diary of a Country Priest, Hardcore, The Mission, Andrej Rubl^Dev, Black Robe, You Only Live Once, and Rome, Open City. Fraser concludes with a chapter on the development of the Biblical epic.

A Level Film Studies is a brand new textbook written specifically to support the WJEC Film Studies specification. A Level Film Studies is full colour throughout and explores each unit discretely so students can progress easily from AS to A2. Lively, up-to-date case studies and exercises appear throughout, drawing on a wide range of material from Mission: Impossible II to Birth of a Nation . This book also includes guidance on how to carry out personal study and effectively fulfil the coursework criteria. It will help students to: - understand the key terminology and concepts - explore the essential content for the course - prepare for the different types of coursework and exam questions - practise the skills and content application they need to show - recognise the sections into which they should organise their notes. This unique resource will demystify Film Studies to give students of all abilities the skills, knowledge, understanding and confidence to succeed at AS and A2.

A Level Film Studies Student's Book

Jones, Tanya

Hodder Murray

From Vietnam to Desert Storm and the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines of America have gone into harm's way to defend and protect the United States. Vietnam and Other Heartaches provides a stark picture of what they must endure in the hell on earth that is combat.Author Peter C. Fraser is a Green Beret and a proud American who volunteered for military service in 1965, serving in Vietnam for two years. The poems featured in Vietnam and Other Heartaches include original verse Fraser composed while he was in Vietnam. Some of the poems were written after his service ended in Vietnam and during a career that spanned thirty years of service. This included deployment in Desert Storm in 1991 and in support of operations in Central America. His writing during from his service gives the reader a unique insight into the lasting horror and stress of overseas combat.Fraser's poetry offers a startling insight into the reality of war and artfully expresses what American soldiers have faced in the past and in the present. Vietnam and Other Heartaches serve as a reminder to all Americans to remember and respect the brave young men and women serving their country.

Vietnam and Other Heartaches

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

iUniverse

Fraser shows how the challenge of designing puppets and staging performances can be as exciting as live theatre. Clear, step-by-step instructions and illustrations demonstrate how to make a variety of puppets--from shadow puppets to Victorian cut-outs to acrobatic marionettes.

Puppets and puppetry

Batsford

Punch and Judy;

B.T. Batsford Limited, London-Van Notrand Reinhold

Puppet circus;

HarperCollins Distribution Services

Puppets can be classified in many ways: by the country of their origin; whether they are worked from above, below or from the side; or whether they are flat or solid. The puppets which have been most familiar in European countries in the past are glove puppets worked from below and marionettes worked from above. For this reason I have given more space to these two types than to others, but this does not mean that other puppets have less interest or scope according to their own nature. Also the techniques of construction described for glove puppets and marionettes can be widely applied. When choosing the type of puppet with which you wish to work, you should first consider the nature and scope of each type of puppet, and the difficulties that may be met in construction and performance. 1 The flat cut out figures of the traditional Victorian Children's Theatre cannot, strictly speaking, be called puppets. I have included them because in a modern form they are a good introduction for very young children to the theatre itself, and to more advanced puppetry. 2 Shadow puppets are very quickly made, and many performers can be employed together if a wide screen is used, and in a performance involving spectacle and procession. The nature of the shadow puppet gives good opportunity for visual design. 3 Rod puppets may vary from a simple mechanism to a complicated one, but may be combined in the same production to suit the ability of individual performers. Rod puppets are particularly suitable for extra movements of head, eyes and mouth, combined with a spoken part. 4 Glove puppets provide a very close link between performer and puppet, and are more suitable for lively action and strong characterization than for visual design. Any type of puppet may be used as a Persona or mask through which the performer feels safe to reveal himself. Glove puppets are most readily used in psychiatric work involving projection techniques, particularly in connection with children.

Introducing Puppetry

Children's Books

Batsford/Watson Guptill

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Synopsis of Diseases of the Chest

Fraser, Robert G.

Pare, J. A. Peter

Medical Books

W.B.Saunders Co.

Christianity has had a powerful influence on every sphere of Western art, even art which on the surface might seem antithetical to the faith. This book argues that point with an analysis of the horror film genre, examining nine classics which illustrate the evolution of horror and reveal a culture haunted by fear of the unspeakable. The history and literary roots of the horror genre are also discussed. 
 The author concludes that our innate dread of evil and the imperative of warding it off are the key mechanics of the horror experience. Films covered include Vampyr (1932), The Mummy (1932), The Thing (1951), Night of the Demon (1957), The Wicker Man (1973), The Exorcist (1973), Halloween (1978), Ringu (1998) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006).

A Christian Response to Horror Cinema: Ten Films in Theological Perspective

McFarland

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Images of the Passion: The Sacramental Mode in Film

Images of the Passion: The Sacramental Mode in Film

A Level Film Studies Student's Book

Vietnam and Other Heartaches

Puppets and puppetry

Punch and Judy;

Puppet circus;

Introducing Puppetry

Synopsis of Diseases of the Chest

A Christian Response to Horror Cinema: Ten Films in Theological Perspective