<div><div>Studies of religion and film have long been dominated by the question of a film's fidelity to a religious text or worldview, or its value as a tool in ministry and mission. <i>Religion and Film</i> seeks to redress this balance, and will have strong appeal to students as well as general readers interested in all aspects of the inter-relationship of religion and the cinema. Drawing on cultural studies approaches, and focusing on such films as <i>La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc</i>, <i>Lagaan</i>, <i>My Son the Fanatic</i>, <i>The Wicker Man</i> and <i>The Passion of the Chris</i>t, Melanie Wright looks at varied screen representations of religion; at films shaped by strong convictions about the place of religion in society; and at the roles that people play as consumers of film.<br></div></div>