2012-13 Pomona College Catalog

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RLST 172 PO - The Bible Goes to Hollywood: Ideological Afterlives of Scripture

CrsNo RLST172 PO

When Offered: Fall 2013.

Instructor(s): E. Runions

Course examines how popular film both takes up and modifies biblical content and symbolism, and to what end. In learning to interpret biblical allusions, subtexts and narrative in film, we will consider how the Bible is used to uphold as well as to critique, power relations within U.S. American society. (HRT II, CWS)