American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics

by Paul Giles and Giles Paul

Book Overview

Paul Giles describes how secular transformations of religious ideas have helped to shape the style and substance of works by American writers, filmmakers and artists from Catholic backgrounds such as Orestes Brownson, Theodore Dreiser, Mary McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe, Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Altman. The book also explores how Catholicism was represented and mythologized by other American writers. By highlighting the recurring themes and preoccupations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521057736
• ISBN13: 9780521057738
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"