Item Detail
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30445
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1
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14
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English
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Mormon Popular Culture
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The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
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Cambridge, England
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Oxford University Press
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406-453
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[2015 Association for Mormon Letters Winner for Best Criticism]
American popular culture’s complicated treatment of Mormonism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through films, books, television shows, and other products of popular culture have reflected a long-standing suspicion of Latter-day Saint theology, but they also demonstrate an increasing willingness to uphold Mormon individuals and families as “model minority” figures. Over the course of the twentieth century, Mormonism went from being perceived as a religion of vile polygamous debauchers to one filled with upright—and even uptight—knights of a vanishing moral code. This chapter explores three perennial themes that pertain to issues of Mormonism and popular culture: a fascination with Mormon sexuality; a suspicion of the LDS Church as a powerful and therefore dangerous institution; and uncertainties relating to Mormon assimilation into the American cultural mainstream.
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A History of Mormon Cinema
Center and Periphery : Mormons and American Culture in Tony Kushner's Angels in America
'Diamond Cut Diamond' : Mormon Women and the Cult of Domesticity in the Nineteenth Century
Elder Price Superstar : The Book of Mormon, Current Broadway Musical
Elders on the Big Screen : Film and the Globalized Circulation of Mormon Missionary Images
Four Consenting Adults in the Privacy of Their Own Suburb : Big Love and the Cultural Significance of Mormon Polygamy
From Satyr to Saint : American Attitudes Toward the Mormons, 1860-1960
LDS in the USA : Mormonism and the Making of American Culture
Peculiar Portrayals : Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Antipolygamy Controversy in U.S. Women's Movements, 1880-1925 : A Debate on the American Home
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy