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10 - Arts and Culture

from Part II - Catholic Life and Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2021

By
Debra Campbell
Edited by
Margaret M. McGuinness  and
Thomas F. Rzeznik
Margaret M. McGuinness
Affiliation:
La Salle University, Philadelphia
Thomas F. Rzeznik
Affiliation:
Seton Hall University, New Jersey
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Summary

American Catholics were well represented among those transfixed by the BBC miniseries Brideshead Revisited when it first aired on PBS in the winter of 1982. There are many reasons why they found it so captivating – aside from the costumes, and the exceptional beauty of its two male protagonists. One is certainly the treatment of Catholic difference running through it, as it does through Evelyn Waugh’s novel, which it follows very closely. When the Anglican agnostic Charles Ryder (Jeremy Irons) observes that Catholics seem “just like everyone else,” the Catholic aristocrat Sebastian Flyte (Anthony Andrews) appears deeply shocked: “My dear Charles, that’s exactly what they’re not … Everything they think’s important is different from other people.”

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The Cambridge Companion to American Catholicism , pp. 179 - 196
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Black, Gregory D. The Catholic Crusade against the Movies, 1940–1975. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Blake, Richard A. Afterimage: The Indelible Catholic Imagination of Six American Filmmakers. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Giles, Paul. American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.Google Scholar
Greeley, Andrew. The Catholic Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Messbarger, Paul R. Fiction with a Parochial Purpose: Social Uses of American Catholic Literature. Boston: Boston University Press, 1971.Google Scholar
Sparr, Arnold. To Promote, Defend, and Redeem: The Catholic Literary Revival and the Cultural Transformation of American Catholicism. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.Google Scholar
Walsh, Frank. Sin and Censorship: The Catholic Church and the Motion Picture Industry. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.Google Scholar

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