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Article: Wright, Melanie, J. Religion and Film: An Introduction.(Book review)
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- Communication Research Trends
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- December 1, 2006
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Wright, Melanie, J. Religion and Film: An Introduction. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2007. Pp. 256. ISBN 1-8504-3886-2 (pb.). 14.99 [pounds sterling].
In 2006 one of the major stories worldwide was the opening of the film The Da Vinci Code (Dir. Ron Brown), a film taken from the worldwide bestseller written by Dan Brown. The book had also caused controversy, although its story seems in part to have been based on a book written more than 20 years earlier as a work of history (Baigent, Leigh, & Lincoln, 1982) from which a tv documentary was made. This book was later discredited when it was discovered to have been based on a hoax. This was not the first film ...