Description

Editorial Statement

Ronald Austin, Screening Mystery

Fiction

Ira Gold, Sacred Cracker

Poetry

Albert Goldbarth, A Living Wholeness

Jeanne Murray Walker, Two Poems

Philip Levine, Three Poems

Mark Jarman, Loop

Interview

A Conversation with Horton Foote

Phil Fehrle and Charles B. Slocum, Movies and Mammon: A Dialogue About the Economics of Filmmaking 

Screenplay

Diane Glancy, Silence is a Story: Scenes from “Flutie”

Symposium

Kathleen Norris, Sven Birkerts, Ed Asner, Arthur Hiller, et al.

Essays

Gil Bailie, Cinema and Crisis: The Elusive Quest for Catharsis

Ronald Austin, Sacrificing Images: Violence and the Movies

Michael Morris, O. P., Looking for Reel Religion

John R. May, Close Encounters: Hollywood and Religion After a Century

J.A. Hanson, Spiritual Subversion: The Films of Nicholas St. John

Confessions

Richard Alleva, “I Would Toss Myself Aside”: Confessions of a Catholic Film Critic

Paul Woolf, Turning Toward Home