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Missionaries in the Golden Age of Hollywood

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-19164-0

ISBN: 978-3-031-19163-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Dec 16, 2022

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Introduction

Abrams, Douglas Carl

Pages: 1 –15

[The 1936 adventure film Rhodes of Africa represents the historical convergence of missions, movies, and empire. In one scene, a Protestant missionary Reverend Charles Helm mediates between British imperial symbol Cecil Rhodes and Lobengula Khumalo, king of the Northern Ndebele. The missionary is...
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Racist Casting, Interracial Attraction and Primitivism

Abrams, Douglas Carl

Pages: 17 –43

[Hollywood, with missionaries on the big screen, created a new way for westerners to view race. Before World War II, during Jim Crow and European colonialism, a mass audience of westerners confronted race in a soft setting—entertainment. The traditional narrative of ministry to nonwhites,...
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Progress in Race Since 1945

Abrams, Douglas Carl

Pages: 45 –74

[After World War II, racial views changed slowly in the West and portrayals of missionaries reflected the complexities of race in the transitions from white supremacy and colonial empires to civil rights and independence. People of color generally were treated with greater dignity. Gradually,...
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Maintaining Masculinity

Abrams, Douglas Carl

Pages: 75 –91

[For missionaries during the Golden Age of Hollywood, in terms of gender, the female prevails on screen—almost 60 percent of the films. The large number of female missionaries—mostly Protestant—reflected their numerical superiority in the real world of missions and made the very masculine world...
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Traditional and Independent Women

Abrams, Douglas Carl

Pages: 93 –121

[In the Golden Age of Hollywood, female missionaries, more often central to the narrative than men, reflected complex attitudes about gender. About half represented in this chapter had traditional views about marriage and family, a few decided to marry while most remained single. Several female...
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Earthly Kingdom and Spiritual Kingdom

Abrams, Douglas Carl

Pages: 123 –150

[Along with race and gender, missionaries in movies during the middle third of the twentieth century wrestled with their nationality, wavering between loyalty to their home country or empires, or devotion to the kingdom of Christ. Those tensions could come during important moments: the peak and...
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Class and Hierarchy

Abrams, Douglas Carl

Pages: 151 –172

[Few missionary movies during Hollywood’s Golden Age address traditional social class in contentious Marxist terms. Most depict it positively or rather describe missionaries struggling to find their place in the hierarchical world of empire, as described in David Cannadine’s Ornamentalism (2002),...
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Social Christianity and Evangelism

Abrams, Douglas Carl

Pages: 173 –202

[An important—some would say the most important—identity for a missionary, in real life or in the movies, should be a spiritual one. Missionary efforts on screen, especially those in the peak of empire and missions, reflect Christianity’s success in spreading globally in the nineteenth and...
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Suffering and Apostasy

Abrams, Douglas Carl

Pages: 203 –225

[In addition to social Christianity and evangelism, movies about missionaries in the Golden Age of Hollywood engaged two solemn spiritual themes—struggle and apostasy. Protestant and Catholic—male and female—wrestled with intense spiritual doubts. Not unlike the wheelchair-bound young girl in...

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