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Abstract
Does television only offer audiences the profane? Or is there room for the sacred to be shown on your TV set? Using Joan of Arcadia as a model in this article, I discuss the potential for television to embody Schrader's (1972) model of the transcendental form in film and bring us closer to divinity. I also discuss what factors converged to make a space for this style on primetime network television.