Christmas and Film and Media

"I'm really interested in this kind of relation of the secular and the religious through the lens of sort of pop culture and media" "Christmas is a contemporary conveyors of our religious sensibilities are creators of our communities are created you know values and meaning and purpose and things like that so yeah. I think Christmas is certainly one of those kind of nuggets one of those sort of places to really look at," he says. 'There's nothing really at all about sort of this being a Christian holiday in any of these stories'  He continues: "'Rituals stick around because they're retold and somebody tweaks things in them and they morph and they adapt in different kinds of ways