"Salvation from Cinema is cogent, comprehensive, beautifully written, and stunningly consistent. With a masterful grasp of cinematic history and a lucid deployment of philosophers such as C.S. Peirce and J. Derrida, Downing both shows up the ideological work of film and lures readers to its ethical possibilities."
M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse University, USA
"A distinctive contribution to the study of religion and film."
William L. Blizek, University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA
"Downing eschews the 'gnostic' logic that films need to point 'beyond' themselves to higher divine realities, instead arguing that the message is incarnate in and cannot be separated from the medium. Her book is filled with trenchant analyses of films that support this thesis, demonstrating that how films show is part and parcel of what they showand in the process, she helps us see a host of films in new ways."
John C. Lyden, Grand View University, USA
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