Mormons, Films, Scriptures
2012; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 45; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5406/dialjmormthou.45.3.0171
ISSN1554-9631
Autores Tópico(s)Race, History, and American Society
ResumoI asserted without argument a few years ago at the annual meeting of the Association of Mormon Scholars in the Humanities that the Mormon film movement of 2000-2005 witnessed the production of only one truly Mormon film, namely, Napoleon Dynamite (2004).1 The claim for which I did provide an argument was that the bulk of the movement launched by Richard Dutcher's God's Army (2000) and brought to its culmination with Dutcher's (thankfully-later-re-titled) God's Army 2 (2005) was principally a study in the possibility of introducing into Mormonism, for ostensibly pastoral reasons but with theologically fraught consequences, an arguably non-Mormon sense of religious transcendence.What I did not note then, but would like to ref lect on now, is the curious role scripture played-and did not play-in this short-lived movement.2
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