Robert K. Johnston, Useless Beauty: Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Contemporary Film (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 2004).Johnston's book is titled after the Elvis Costello song (and album) "All This Useless Beauty." The aim of the book is to engage a dialogue between Ecclesiastes and contemporary films that also portray the "hard, paradoxical reality of life."
The films reviewed include:
Ikiru
Crimes and Misdemeanors
American Beauty
Six Feet Under (HBO television programme)
Magnolia
Punch Drunk Love
Run Lola Run
The Princess and the Warrior
Monster's Ball
Signs
Election
About Schmidt
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