Love in the Afterlife: Underground Religion at the Movies

by Richard Striner and Richard Striner PhD Washington College; parent

This is a definitive study of films that have been built around the themes of love, death, and the afterlife-films about lovers who meet again (and love again) in heaven, via reincarnation, or through other kinds of after-death encounters. Far more than books about mere ghosts in the movies or religion in movies, Love in the Afterlife presents a complex but highly distinctive and unique pattern-the love-death-afterlife pattern-as it was handed down...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611478847
• ISBN13: 9781611478846
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"