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Animated Parables

A Pedagogy of Seven Deadly Sins and a Few Virtues
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Generally neglected for their rhetorical power, animated cartoons provide a treasure chest of provocative and comic gems that teach about the seven deadly sins. After a brief history of parables and fables, icons and visual communication, this book explores each of the seven deadly sins as represented in short animated films from Disney, Pixar, the Warner Brothers, and foreign animators. Terry Lindvall argues that attending to the tropes of the cartoons leads to exemplary and revelatory discoveries, to seeing more of what pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust mean across cultures and historical eras.
Terry Lindvall is C. S. Lewis Chair of Communication and Christian Thought at Virginia Wesleyan University.
Introduction: A Brief Pedagogy of Parables Part I: Aesthetic Roots Chapter One: Parables and Fables Chapter Two: Emergence of the Visual Parable Part II: Dead Branches Chapter Three: Sin, Judgment, and Blindness Chapter Four: Pride (Superbia of the Peacock) Chapter Five: Envy (Invidia or the Wolf) Chapter Six: Wrath (Ira or the Lion) Chapter Seven: Sloth (Acedia or the Ass) Chapter Eight: Avarice (Avaricia or the Camel) Chapter Nine: Gluttony (Gula or the Swine) Chapter Ten: Lust (Luxuria or the Goat) Part III: Spiritual Fruit Chapter Eleven: Virtues and Redemption
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