Author: Terry Lindvall
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479886742
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 373
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Links film history with church history over the past century, illuminating America’s broader relationship with religious currents over time Moments of prayer have been represented in Hollywood movies since the silent era, appearing unexpectedly in films as diverse as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Frankenstein, Amistad, Easy Rider, Talladega Nights, and Alien 3, as well as in religiously inspired classics such as Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments. Here, Terry Lindvall examines how films have reflected, and sometimes sought to prescribe, ideas about how one ought to pray. He surveys the landscape of those films that employ prayer in their narratives, beginning with the silent era and moving through the uplifting and inspirational movies of the Great Depression and World War II, the cynical, anti-establishment films of the 60s and 70s, and the sci-fi and fantasy blockbusters of today. Lindvall considers how the presentation of cinematic prayer varies across race, age, and gender, and places the use of prayer in film in historical context, shedding light on the religious currents at play during those time periods. God on the Big Screen demonstrates that the way prayer is presented in film during each historical period tells us a great deal about America’s broader relationship with religion.
Author: Paul Asay
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414374291
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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What do God and the Caped Crusader have in common? While Batman is a secular superhero patrolling the fictional streets of Gotham City, the Caped Crusader is one whose story creates multiple opportunities for believers to talk about the redemptive spiritual truths of Christianity. While the book touches on Batman’s many incarnations over the last 70 years in print, on television, and at the local Cineplex for the enjoyment of Batman fans everywhere, it primarily focuses on Christopher Nolan’s two wildly popular and critically acclaimed movies—movies that not only introduced a new generation to a darker Batman, but are also loaded with spiritual meaning and redemptive metaphors.
Author: Catherine M. Barsotti
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1493410598
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 427
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This informative guide helps readers combine their love of movies with their desire to grow closer to God. Foremost experts on faith and film, all connected with the Reel Spirituality Institute at Fuller Seminary, explore forty leading movies from the last four decades to encourage movie lovers and small groups to reflect critically and theologically on their film choices. God in the Movies introduces and analyzes the spiritual content of top films from the 1980s through the 2010s, opening viewers up to a conversation about life, faith, and God. Following a format similar to Barsotti and Johnston's successful Finding God in the Movies, this completely new book covers different films spanning four decades. This engaging resource contains production notes and film synopses, relevant Scripture texts, theological reflection, discussion questions, film stills, recommended film clips, and more, serving as a treasure chest for hours of film viewing, discussion, and ministry. Clips from the movies referenced in each chapter are available online.
Author: David Thomson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466827718
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
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“An engaging primer on film history” examining the rise of movies, their influence, and the technology that conveys them (New York Times Book Review). The Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies and their signal role in modern life: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screen—smaller now, but ever more ubiquitous—as important as the images it carries. At first, film was a waking dream, the gift of appearance delivered for a nickel to huddled masses sitting in the dark. But soon, and abruptly, movies began transforming our societies and our perceptions of the world. The celebrated film authority David Thomson takes us around the globe, through time, and across many media—moving from Eadweard Muybridge to Steve Jobs, from Sunrise to I Love Lucy, from John Wayne to George Clooney, from television commercials to streaming video—to tell the complex, gripping, paradoxical story of the movies. Does the big screen take us out into the world, or merely mesmerize us? That is Thomson’s question in this grand adventure of a book. This passionate and provocative feat of storytelling is vital to anyone trying to make sense of the age of screens—the age that, more than ever, we are living in. “Erudite and entertaining.” —Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly “Thomson has a deft, conversational style across an amazing range of topics . . . fresh and insightful.” —Clint O’Connor, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) “For those who take their films seriously, The Big Screen will have you both rethinking some mainstream ideas and reorganizing your Netflix queue.” —Neal Justin, Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Author: Bert Downs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 73
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Do you ever feel like your daily Bible reading is like creating post-it notes from your Bible journaling to cover your refrigerator, but that there is not much coherence between them? This Bible Survey class will give you a file cabinet containing major folders into which you can insert your individual post-it notes. It covers the Old and New Testament, and the years in-between.
Author: DBC Pierre
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802194354
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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“If Huckleberry Finn were set on the Mexican-American border and written by the creators of South Park, it might read something like this.” —San Francisco Chronicle Hailed by critics and lauded by readers for its riotously funny and scathing portrayal of America in an age of trial by media, materialism, and violence, Vernon God Little was an international sensation when it was first published in 2003 and awarded the prestigious Man Booker Prize. The memorable portrait of America is seen through the eyes of a wry, young protagonist. Fifteen-year-old Vernon narrates the story with a cynical twang and a four-letter barb for each of his townsfolk, a medley of characters. With a plot involving a school shooting and death-row reality TV shows, Pierre’s effortless prose and dialogue combine to form a novel of postmodern gamesmanship. “A dangerous, smart, ridiculous, and very funny first novel . . . Pierre renders adolescence brilliantly, capturing with seeming effortlessness the bright, contradictory hormone rush of teenage life.” —Sam Sifton, The New York Times
Author: John Howard Reid
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304300307
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Hollywood has had an off and on romance with the Bible -- thanks largely to Cecil B. DeMille whose ground-breaking silent picture "The King of Kings" has rarely been equalled for its faithfulness and fidelity, and certainly not in its dreadful re-make by producer Sam Bronston and director Nicholas Ray. This book examines both the hits and misses in the Bible stakes, as well as many other movies in which religion plays a major role, such as "The Garden of Allah", "Samson and Delilah", "The Silence of Dean Maitland", "Stars in My Crown", "Mary of Scotland" and "The Ten Commandments".
Author: Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351517201
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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The religious imagination is alive and well in the movies. Contrary to those who criticize Hollywood, popular movies very often have metaphorically represented God on the screen. From Clint Eastwood as an avenging angel in Pale Rider and Nicolas Cage as a lovesick angel in City of Angels to Jessica Lange as an angel of death in All That Jazz, and from George Burns as God in Oh, God! to Audrey Hepburn in Always to pure white light in Fearless and Flatliners, God is very much present in the movies.
Author: Bikash Man Singh Kunwar
Publisher: Bikash Man Singh Kunwar
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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Kishan and his team have not only witnessed the success of science and technology at its highest potential but also tasted its beauty in exploring other alien planets, witnessing life where the imagination becomes a reality in a beautiful way. The warmth of the day in the form of success then turns into dark night where the war sows it mercilessly but has left its traces on Earth, which later aliens discover and find the answer about the relationship between their deities and the Earth. The answer from the investigation disassembles them with the emotions of pain into dejection and sorrow. Bikash Kunwar’s ‘ The God Of Aliens’ is a storytelling, science fiction, fantasy, suspense, and adventure masterpiece. It is the greatest art of imagination to witness lives within the universe, and it is a great example of the consequences of war, which is capable of total destruction.
Author: San Swayze
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477113452
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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“My only fear of death is that I come back reincarnated knowing what I know now...” —Tupac Shakur What If some of The Greatest and Most Infl uential People Ever to Live came back to Life?? What If the biblical prophecy of the Book of Revelations happened during our lifetime?? What If there really was an Antichrist self-appointed by The Devil himself to help aide in his evil conquest of the World?? What If this Antichrist became the possessor of the omnipotent Spear of Destiny?? What If our “Heavenly Creator” knew of Satan’s evil plot all along and therefore plotted two steps ahead of the Master Trickster?? What If our “Heavenly Creator” personally sent some of The Greatest and Most Infl uential People Ever to Live on a Tormentous, Undercover Mission to Help Save our World?????? Heavenly Angels, Satan and his Massive Demon Army, FreeMasons, A Beautiful Egyptian Seductress, Texas Prison Gangs, Skyscraping Giants, Fireworks at New Cowboys Stadium, A Powerful ex- Roman Dictator, Savage Lycan’s, Bloodthirsty Vampires, The Greatest Master Swordsman Ever, A Renewed Secret Love Affair, FreeNation Conquest of the 1970’s, A Talk with Jesus, Damnated Human Canibals, A Scorching Hot Science Professor, The Underworld’s Infamous “Helluseum”, The Paradisal Garden of Eden, The Biggest Social Media Hacking Ever, The Last Supper, The Truth Behind the Kennedy Assassination, The Beginning of The New Age Revolutions, Legendary Rock N Roll Icon’s, Flying Witches with Black Magic, Three Very Wise Men, The Legendary One Percenters Famillia, and the One Man that’s Ultimately Destined to Lead in the Human Effort to Save the Planet are just a handful of the many fascinating people and events included in Vol. 1 of this Sci-Fy, Religious/Historical-Fiction 3-part series. Beginning December 25, 2012, “One World Under God Vol 1. Operation: Natural Born Hero” eventually takes you back 49 years to the Tragic Death, The 7 Year Reincarnation, and eventual rise of the free-spirited 23 year old man that’s inevitably destined to become Team Leader in the “Heavenly Creator’s” Final Operation to take down Satan and his Evil Army Once and for All!!!! San
