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The silents of God : selected issues and documents in silent American film and religion, 1908-1925 / [compiled by] Terry Lindvall.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.5 .S58 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Religious aspects.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 375 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2001.
- Contents:
- Part 1 A Prophetic Vision, 1908-1913 1
- Moving Pictures and the Pulpit 3
- "Minister Proposes Sunday Pictures" and "Missionaries and Moving Pictures" 14
- Editorial: The Clergy and the Moving Picture 16
- Amusement as a Factor in Man's Spiritual Uplift 18
- Vaudettes 25
- The Clergy and the Picture 30
- The Case for Motion Pictures 32
- Motography as an Arm of the Church 48
- The Religious Possibilities of the Motion Picture 54
- The Picture in the Pulpit (October 26, 1912) 79
- The Picture in the Pulpit (November 16, 1912) 83
- The Picture in the Pulpit (December 21, 1912) 89
- The Motion Picture and the Church 93
- Part 2 The Great Debates, 1913-1919 97
- Sunday Closings, Commercialism, and the Dangers of the World 99
- The Theater vs. the Church 117
- Samson: Six Reels 118
- Light on Puzzling Passages and Problems 119
- Motion Pictures in Religious and Educational Work 122
- The Bible and Moving Pictures 136
- Studies in Social Christianity: Motion Pictures 138
- Urging an Alliance of Church and Motion Picture 151
- Sex Pictures Arouse Louisville Churchmen 154
- Pictures in Schools and Churches 155
- How to Preach by Moving Pictures 157
- The Parson Who Believed in Pictures 161
- Spiritualism by the Film 167
- The Moving Picture: A Careful Survey of a Difficult Problem 179
- An Indictment: The Moving Picture, A Clergyman's Child Has Been Neglected by the Church 189
- In His Steps Today: What Would Jesus Do with the Drama? 191
- Sunday Pros and Cons Plead 198
- Cleveland Moffett's Crazy Quilt 203
- The Moral and Social Effects of the Movies 205
- Part 3 Before the Fall, 1919-1920 213
- The Motion Picture as a Handmaiden of Religion 215
- A Conception of Screen as Handmaid of Church Expressed by Clergymen 221
- Let There Be Light! 224
- Moving Pictures as an Aid to the Church 229
- If Christ Went to the Movies 231
- The Motion Picture as a "Handmaid of Religion" 235
- Your Enjoyment of Paramount Pictures 240
- Eleven Picture Commandments 242
- Education and Pictures 244
- Part 4 The Great Divorce, 1920-1925 249
- The Flight from Babylon Amid Public Relations 251
- Motion Picture Madness 259
- The Church or the Theater 266
- The Movies
- the Devil's Incubator 273
- Hollywood as Seen by a Minister 282
- Can Anything Good Come Out of Hollywood? 290
- The Padre of Hollywood 293
- Pictures and the Church 296
- May Christians Attend Picture Shows? 301
- She Defends Some of the Movies 303
- More about the Movies 307.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-368) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0810839547
- OCLC:
- 46809872
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