Nuns in Popular Culture
Critical Essays
Edited by Marcus K. Harmes and Meredith A. Harmes
Average rating:
0 | rating | ![]() |
0 | rating | ![]() |
0 | rating | ![]() |
0 | rating | ![]() |
Your rating: -
Book Presentation:
Films and television programs about nuns are among the most successful and popular we watch, from old favorites like The Sound of Music to more recent hits like Call the Midwife and Mrs. Davis. This collection of new essays studies the fascinating and often controversial ways nuns have been portrayed in popular media, including as warriors, career women, and agents of supernatural horror. Specialist contributors in popular culture study more than a century of works from around the globe in genres as diverse as musicals, horror films, and even heavy metal music videos.
About the authors:
Marcus K. Harmes is a professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia. He researches on British popular culture especially science fiction and horror.
Meredith A. Harmes teaches at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia and has a research background in political science and British political history.
See the publisher website: McFarland & Co
> From the same authors:
Watching the Cops (2023)
Essays on Police and Policing in 21st Century Film and Television
Dir. Marcus K. Harmes, Barbara Harmes and Meredith A. Harmes
The Nurse in Popular Media (2021)
Critical Essays
Dir. Marcus K. Harmes, Barbara Harmes and Meredith A. Harmes
Subject: Sociology
> On a related topic:
Face to Face with Angels (2010)
Images in Medieval Art and in Film
The Wages of Cinema (2025)
A Christian Aesthetic of Film in Conversation with Dorothy L. Sayers
Subject: Sociology
Protestants on Screen (2024)
Religion, Politics and Aesthetics in European and American Movies
Dir. Gastón Espinosa, Erik Redling and Jason Stevens
Subject: Sociology
Southern by the Grace of God (2024)
Religion, Race, and Civil Rights in Hollywood's American South
by Megan Hunt
Subject: Sociology