JESUIT MISSIONS TO THE GUARANÍ IN LITERATURE AND FILM CALUMNIES AND CAUSES (Hard Cover)
| Author: | Hale, Frederick | |
| Year: | 2025 | |
| Pages: | 516 | |
| ISBN: | 1-4955-1329-7 978-1-4955-1329-9 | |
| Price: | $319.95 + shipping | |
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This study of the closure of the Jesuit missions to the Guaraní indigenes in central South America as it has been represented in literature and film lies at the confluence of my interests in the history of missions and of various literary genres and the cinema.
Table of Contents
Contents
One Introduction
Two The Reducciones, Their History, and Their Historiography
Three Voltaire’s Critique and Defence of the Reducciones
Four R. B. Cunninghame Graham’s A Vanished Arcadia
Five Hochwälder’s Das heilige Experiment: A Plea for Religious Toleration and Moral Accountability
Six Missionary Images in the Cinema
Seven Pivotal Implications of Liberation Theology
Eight Robert Bolt: An Inconsistent Ideologue as Screenwriter
Nine Creating the Film The Mission
Ten Daniel Berrigan’s Influence and Critical Diary
Eleven The Film The Mission
Twelve The Novelisation of The Mission
Thirteen Critical Reception of The Mission
Fourteen Conclusion
Bibliography
Two The Reducciones, Their History, and Their Historiography
Three Voltaire’s Critique and Defence of the Reducciones
Four R. B. Cunninghame Graham’s A Vanished Arcadia
Five Hochwälder’s Das heilige Experiment: A Plea for Religious Toleration and Moral Accountability
Six Missionary Images in the Cinema
Seven Pivotal Implications of Liberation Theology
Eight Robert Bolt: An Inconsistent Ideologue as Screenwriter
Nine Creating the Film The Mission
Ten Daniel Berrigan’s Influence and Critical Diary
Eleven The Film The Mission
Twelve The Novelisation of The Mission
Thirteen Critical Reception of The Mission
Fourteen Conclusion
Bibliography