Catherine O'Brien

 

Books:

Martin Scorsese’s Divine Comedy: Movies and Religion, Bloomsbury, 2018.

Available via Knowledge Unlatched at Open Access: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29984

The celluloid Madonna: from scripture to screen, Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, 2011. 

​[As co-editor with Fran Lloyd] Secret spaces, forbidden places: rethinking culture, Berghahn Books, 2000.

​​Women's fictional responses to the First World War: a comparative study of selected texts by French and German writers, Peter Lang, 1997.

 

​​Articles:

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‘Cinematic Visions of Lourdes and Fatima’, Marian Studies, Vol.76 [forthcoming].

‘Sacraments’ in G. P. Loughlin (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Theology and Film. Oxford University Press [forthcoming].

‘La Vie et le temps: Marie à l’écran’, Marie, la vie et le temps, Études mariales, Bulletin de la Société française d’Études mariales, 2025, pp.221-236.

‘Peter (Film)’ in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Walter de Gruyter 2025, pp.68-72.

‘Peter as the Rock (Film)’ in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Walter de Gruyter 2025, pp.124-125.

‘Pietà (Film)’ in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Walter de Gruyter, 2025, pp.560-62.

‘Nativity (Film)’ in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Walter de Gruyter, 2022, pp.979-982.

‘“Roaming the earth”: Satan in The Last Temptation of the Christ and The Passion of the Christ’ in J. A. Weinstock and R. Hansen (eds), Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema, Fordham University Press, 2021, pp.161-177.

‘Manger (Film)’ in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Walter de Gruyter, 2019, pp.756-758.

‘Mary (Literature)’ in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Walter de Gruyter, 2019, pp.1164-1174.

‘Mary (Film)’ in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Walter de Gruyter, 2019, pp.1200-1204.

‘Symbol, Vision, Mother: Mary in Film’ in C. Maunder (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Mary, Oxford University Press, 2019, pp 546-58.

‘Women in the Cinematic Gospels in Burnette-Blesch, R. (ed.) The Bible in motion: a handbook of the Bible and its reception in film, Walter de Gruyter, 2016, pp.449-462.

‘Marie dans le cinéma contemporain: un nouveau visage?’ in La figure de Marie dans les expressions artistiques récentes: XXe et XXIe siècle (Société française d’études mariales), 2016, pp.115-131.

‘“Love, What Have You Done to Me?” Eros and agape in Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess’, The Journal of Religion and Film, 18(1), 2014.

​‘The Life of Mary in Film: Marian films in the 21st century’, Marian Studies, Vol.60, 2013, pp.287-296 - available here

‘Mythological Readings of Mary’s Motherhood’, Marian Studies, Vol. 57, 2009, pp.173-189 - available here

‘Mary in European Literature’ in S. Boss (ed.), Mary: The Complete Resource, Continuum, 2007, pp.521-531.

​​‘Mary in Film’ in S. Boss (ed.), Mary: The Complete Resource, Continuum, 2007, pp.532-536.

‘Sacrificial Rituals and Wounded Hearts: The Uses of Christian Symbolism in French and German Women’s Responses to the First World War’, in A.S. Fell and I. Sharp (eds), The Women’s Movement in Wartime. International Perspectives, 1914-1919, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp.244-259.

‘Seeking Perfection of Form: French Cultural Responses to the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception’, Marian Studies, Vol. 55, 2004, pp.114-134.

‘From Sacred to Secular: Translations of the Infancy Narratives in Twentieth-Century French Culture’, Maria: A Journal of Marian Studies. Vol.3(2) February 2003, pp.226-238.

‘When radical meets conservative: Godard, Delannoy and the Virgin Mary’, Literature and Theology: An International Journal of Religion, Theory and Culture, Vol. 15(2), June 2001, pp.174-186.

‘A Double Message: French Literary Responses to Mariology’ in P. Cooke and J. Lee (eds), (Un)Faithful Texts? (New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2000), pp.201-213.

​‘“There is no greater love…”: Biblical Imagery in Women’s First World War Literature’, Journal of War and Literature/Krieg und Literatur, University of Osnabrück, 1999.

‘Beyond the Can[n]on: French Women’s Responses to the First World War’, French Cultural Studies 7(20) June 1996, pp.201-213.