This course examines the ways Catholicism and cinema have interacted both historically and artistically over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By viewing and analyzing several films from various historical eras and cultural milieus, the course explores the artistic, religious, practical, and cultural concerns of Catholicism through the lens of commercial filmmaking, and gains an understanding of the popular perceptions of the Catholic faith, its structures, and its practitioners [3 credits]
This course examines the ways Catholicism and cinema have interacted both historically and artistically over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By viewing and analyzing several films from various historical eras and cultural milieus, the course explores the artistic, religious, practical, and cultural concerns of Catholicism through the lens of commercial filmmaking, and gains an understanding of the popular perceptions of the Catholic faith, its structures, and its practitioners [3 credits]
