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Celluloid sermons : the emergence of the Christian film industry, 1930-1986 / Terry Lindvall and Andrew Quicke.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindvall, Terry
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States.
- Christian films--United States--History and criticism.
- Christian films.
- Motion picture industry--United States--History--20th century.
- Motion picture industry.
- Motion pictures--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures in Christian education.
- Christianity in motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, ©2011.
- Summary:
- Christian filmmaking, done outside of the corporate Hollywood industry and produced for Christian churches, affected a significant audience of church people. Although suspicion toward the film industry marked many conservatives during the early 1930s, many Christian leaders came to believe in the power of technology to convert or to morally instruct people. Thus the growth of a Christian film industry was an extension of the Protestant tradition of preaching, with the films becoming celluloid sermons.
- Celluloid Sermons offers the first historical study of this phenomenon. Terry Lindvall and Andrew Quicke highlight key characters, studios, and influential films of the movement from 1930 to 1986, assessing the extent to which the church's commitment to filmmaking accelerated its missions and demonstrating that its filmic endeavors had the unintended consequence of contributing to the secularization of liberal denominations. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- God talks
- Evangelical film auteurs
- Methodist and ecumenical films
- Reformed and dissenting images
- The studio era of Christian films
- The master filmmakers
- Mark IV and apocalyptic film
- Global film evangelism
- Conclusion: a modest renaissance before the end.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814753248
- 0814753248
- OCLC:
- 724667390
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