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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
Contributor:
Lindvall, Terry
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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