other sample searches
- metropolis AND (movie OR film)in Jstor
- frankenstein AND (movie OR film) AND WhaleIn Ebscohost Communications and Media database
- UT Passion of the Christ (Motion picture)from ATLA Religion database
- "Blade Runner" AND (movie OR film)in ATLA database (19 results)
- (("Blade Runner" AND (movie OR film)) AND ((Bible OR biblical)))from Jstor dadtabase (over 300 results - all full-text)
- "Ex Machina" AND (movie OR film)from ATLA database (5 results)
- "Ex Machina" AND Garland AND alexfrom Jstor database
- "The Mission" AND joffe AND filmfrom Jstor database (search within results with your own keywords)
- "God on Trial" AND de Emmonyfrom ProQuest Central
Citation Style
Databases for articles
- Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials This link opens in a new windowThis religious studies database from EBSCO includes 380 full-text scholarly journals and 2,500 indexed journals. Also includes the CATHOLIC PERIODICAL & LITERATURE INDEX, which includes essay collections, church documents, papal documents, and electronic resources addressing the practice and intellectual tradition of Roman Catholicism.
- Religion and Philosophy This link opens in a new windowThis unambitiously-named religion and philosophy database from Gale contains over 150 full-text scholarly journals.
- Religion Database This link opens in a new windowThis creatively-named religious studies database from ProQuest contains nearly 300 full-text scholarly journals and nearly 50 full-text magazines.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowThis interdisciplinary database contains over 2,800 full-text scholarly journals; 30,000 full-text eBooks; 40,000 full-text research reports; and as of 2025, also now includes the entirety of the Artstor database.
- EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowThis interdisciplinary database searches all of the EBSCO company's databases in one unified search. Will contain a variety of scholarly articles, magazines, newspapers, and books. [We currently subscribe to 27 EBSCO databases.]
In Ebscohost, go to CHOOSE DATABASES and checkmark the Communications and Mass Media choice for more focused results.
While in the database of your choice, use the Advanced Search feature: make one box drop down to ALL TEXT for the: movie title in quotemarks,
then the second box just have: (movie OR film)
In the third box you can try ALL text for the word: Bible too, FYI or any other keyword you like
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Books
Interlibrary Loan the book chapter:
T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film
Chapter 25. “It's Alive!”: Frankenstein and His Horrible Fellows as Messianic Figures - Robert Paul Seesengood, Albright College, USA
| ISBN | 9780567686916 |
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| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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in your SAU ILL portal
: https://sau.cliohosting.com/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2f
A list of books you can browse in our SAU collection and check the indexes (may or may not have these film titles - take a chance)
The Bible in Film by Call Number: e-bookISBN: 1281399507Publication Date: 2010includes "passion of the Christ"
The Bible in Motion, Part 1 : a handbook of the Bible and its reception in film by Call Number: e-bookISBN: 1501500163Publication Date: 2016includes Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott, 1982, The Ladd Company, US). PAGES 240, 244, 250, 317, 318,
325, 870
