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You love movies. Who Doesn't? In Finding God in the Movies Catherine Barsotti and Robert Johnston show you how to combine your love of movies with your desire for God. Introducing thirty-three films of faith--ranging from Tender Mercies to X-Men--the authors identify and explore key biblical themes like forgiveness, faith, and repentance. An enthusiastic guide for the individual movie lover or small group, this resource contains production notes and...
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Welcome to the confessions of a Christian moviegoer. Jeffrey Overstreet, film enthusiast and movie reviewer, takes readers on a journey that spans the globe. From a desert scene in Mongolia to a galaxy far, far away, you'll explore the power of cinematic journeys to introduce life-changing new insights. While visiting the angels of Wings of Desire and the inquisitive British newcomers of The New World, he'll show you how different characters, different...
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"This book explains how the Moral Premise - a statement of truth about the protagonist's physical and psychological predicament - is a fundamental part of every successful movie's structure. It is also a book about how you, a filmmaker or writer, can use the Moral Premise to create great motion pictures that resonate with your audience. If you violate these century-old principles, your film is doomed to failure at the box office. But if you imbue...
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"Batman stares down the laughing Joker. Luke Skywalker clashes lightsabers with Darth Vader. Iron Man sacrifices himself with a snap of his fingers to save the world. Our eyes are glued to the screen. Why? Movies combine humor, action, and drama to create stories that amplify the fight between good and evil. Along the way, they impart inspiring life lessons on justice, purpose, courage, strength, faith, and love. They also teach us about our Creator....
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Why does our popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values that Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride patriotism? In this explosive book, one of the nation's best known film critics examines how Hollywood has broken faith with its public, creating movies, television, and popular music that exacerbate every serious social problem we face, from teenage...
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"Filled with rare images and untold stories from filmmakers, exhibitors, and moviegoers, Forbidden Hollywood is the ultimate guide to a gloriously entertaining and strikingly progressive era, when a lax code of censorship let sin rule the movies. Forbidden Hollywood is a history of "pre-Code" like none other: you will eavesdrop on production conferences, read nervous telegrams from executives to censors, and hear Americans argue about "immoral" movies....
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"This critical text examines the seventy-year history of comic book superheroes on film and in comic books and their reflections of the politics of their time. Superheroes addressed include Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Superman, the Invisible Woman and the X-Men, and topics covered include American wars, conflicts, and public policy"--Provided by publisher
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"Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taking two genres generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife--the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film--this book reveals the varied ways in which censorship, for all its blustery self-righteousness, can actually be good for sex, politics, feminism, and art. As much as Victorianism...
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The history of cinema censorship is as much a panorama of American morality in the twentieth century as it is a tale of quick-buck chicanery, hypocrisy, bigotry, ignorance, and the admirable struggle to make movies a great art form. Starting with the films of Mabel Normand, Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, and Jean Harlow, the battles both secret and public over what the American public should or should not see have grown in intensity and in significance. Why...
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The editors of Ethics at the Cinema invited a diverse group of moral philosophers and philosophers of film to engage with ethical issues raised within, or within the process of viewing, a single film of each contributor's choice. The result is a unique collection of considerable breadth. Discussions focus on both classic and modern films, and topics range from problems of traditional concern to philosophers (e.g. virtue, justice, and ideals) to problems...