Small Screen, Big Picture

Name: Small Screen, Big Picture
Author: Diane Winston
ISBN: 9781481314794

Television and Lived Religion

Edited by Diane Winston

Published by: Baylor University Press

Imprint: Baylor University Press

An interdisciplinary tour de force, this book describes how television converts social concerns, cultural conundrums and metaphysical questions into stories that explore and even shape who we are and would like to be--the building blocks of religious speculation.

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A pioneering study at the intersection of religion and media, Small Screen, Big Picture treats television as a virtual meeting place where Americans across racial, ethnic, economic and religious lines find instructive and inspirational narratives. An interdisciplinary tour de force, this book describes how television converts social concerns, cultural conundrums and metaphysical questions into stories that explore and even shape who we are and would like to be--the building blocks of religious speculation.

IntroductionDiane WinstonOld Wine in New Skins1. True Believers and Atheists Need not Apply: Faith and Mainstream Television DramaS. Elizabeth Bird2. In the Beginning … DeadwoodHorace Newcomb3. The Wire: Playing the GameCraig Detweiler4. "For What I Have Done and What I Have Failed to Do": Vernacular Catholicism and The West WingLeonard Norman Primiano5. Mixed Blessing: Generational Effects of Interfaith Marriage in Everwood and The O.C.Vincent Brook6. "The Fire Next Time": Sleeper Cell and Muslims on Television Post 9/11Amir HussainNeither Male nor Female7. "Elect Xena God": Religion Remixed in a (Post-)Television CultureSheila Briggs8. "You Know How It Is with Nuns…": Religion and Television’s Sacred/Secular FetusesHeather Hendershot9. Moralizing Whiteness in Joan of ArcadiaLanita Jacobs-Huey10. "A Vagina Ain’t a Halo": Gender and Religion in Saving Grace and Battlestar GalaticaAnthea Butler and Diane WinstonRevelation11. "Chiariidaa o Sukue, Sekai o Sukue!": Nuclear Dread and the Pokémonization of American Religion in Season One of HeroesRudy V. Busto12. You LOST Me: Mystery, Fandom, and Religion in ABC’s LOSTLynn Schofield Clark13. "Have a Little Faith": Religious Vision in Fox’s Prison BreakMarcia Dawkins14. "Who am I? Where am I Going?": Life, Death and Religion in The SopranosAdele Reinhartz15. A Television Auteur Confronts God: the Religious Imagination of Tom FontanaElijah Siegler

Diane Winston (Ph.D., Princeton University) is Associate Professor and Knight Chair in Media and Religion, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. She is the author of Faith in the Market: Religion and Urban Commercial Culture (2002), and Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army (1999).

This book discusses with both sanity and intelligence two subjects that are often discussed with neither.
~Robert Thompson, Professor of Television and Popular Culture, Syracuse University

Winston and her colleagues deepen understanding of American mass culture, and this book merits reading and discussion... Recommended. All readers.
~CHOICE