Deep Focus (Engaging Culture)
Deep Focus (Engaging Culture)

Author: Robert K. Johnston

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 149341691X

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Three media experts guide the Christian moviegoer into a theological conversation with movies in this up-to-date, readable introduction to Christian theology and film. Building on the success of Robert Johnston's Reel Spirituality, the leading textbook in the field for the past 17 years, Deep Focus helps film lovers not only watch movies critically and theologically but also see beneath the surface of their moving images. The book discusses a wide variety of classic and contemporary films and is illustrated with film stills from favorite movies.

Deep Focus
Deep Focus

Author: Robert K. Johnston

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781540960030

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Three media experts guide the Christian moviegoer into a theological conversation with movies in this up-to-date, readable introduction to Christian theology and film. Building on the success of Robert Johnston's Reel Spirituality, the leading textbook in the field for the past 17 years, Deep Focus helps film lovers not only watch movies critically and theologically but also see beneath the surface of their moving images. The book discusses a wide variety of classic and contemporary films and is illustrated with film stills from favorite movies.

Watching TV Religiously (Engaging Culture)
Watching TV Religiously (Engaging Culture)

Author: Kutter Callaway

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1493405853

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Helping Christians Understand the Power and Meaning of TV Since its inception, television has captured the cultural imagination. Outside of work and sleep, it is now the primary preoccupation of most Americans. Individuals consume upward of five hours of TV daily, even more when taking into account viewing done online and on mobile devices. TV is so ingrained in the fabric of everyday life that it can't help but function as one of the primary means through which we make sense of our lives and the world. This book shows that television--as a technology, a narrative art form, a commodity, and a portal for our ritual lives--confronts viewers theologically. Whether its content is explicitly spiritual or not, TV routinely invites (and sometimes demands) theological reflection. This book articulates something of the presence and activity of God in the golden age of TV and forges an appropriate response to an ever-changing cultural form. It constructs a theology of television that allows for both celebration and critique, helping Christians more fully understand and appreciate the power and meaning of TV. A supplemental website provides additional resources, conversations, and close readings of TV programs.

Useless Beauty
Useless Beauty

Author: Robert K. Johnston

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2011-12-16

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1610978293

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Reveals how both contemporary movies and the Book of Ecclesiastes portray life's beauty despite its pain and futility.

Reel Spirituality
Reel Spirituality

Author: Robert K. Johnston

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2006-12

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0801031877

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A comprehensive study of theology and film that explores how the Christian faith is portrayed in film throughout history.

Finding God in the Movies
Finding God in the Movies

Author: Catherine M. Barsotti

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2004-08

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0801064813

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Experience God in the movies! A valuable resource guide examining over thirty films and their theological impact. Excellent for film buffs and church leaders alike.

Scoring Transcendence
Scoring Transcendence

Author: Kutter Callaway

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781602585355

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Films are the lingua franca of western culture; for decades they have provided viewers with a universal way of understanding the human experience. And film music, Kutter Callaway demonstrates, has such a profound effect on the human spirit that it demands theological reflection. By engaging scores from the last decade of popular cinema, Callaway reveals how a musically aware approach to film can yield novel insights into the presence and activity of God in contemporary culture. And, through conversations with these films and their filmmakers, viewers can gain a new understanding of how God may be speaking to modern society through film and its transcendent melodies.

Into the Dark
Into the Dark

Author: Craig Detweiler

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2008-08

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0801035929

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A Hollywood screenwriter/producer and film professor explores forty-five of the twenty-first century's most popular films as vehicles of common grace.

Deep Focus
Deep Focus

Author: Robert K. Johnston

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9781540961563

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Three media experts guide the Christian moviegoer into a theological conversation with movies in this up-to-date, readable introduction to Christian theology and film. Building on the success of Robert Johnston's Reel Spirituality, the leading textbook in the field for the past 17 years, Deep Focus helps film lovers not only watch movies critically and theologically but also see beneath the surface of their moving images. The book discusses a wide variety of classic and contemporary films and is illustrated with film stills from favorite movies.

They Live
They Live

Author: Jonathan Lethem

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2010-10-10

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 159376393X

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“One of the cleverest, most accessibly in-depth film books released this year . . . a smart-ass novelist exploring a cheesy-cheeky ‘80s sci-fi flick.”—Hartford Advocate Deep Focus is a series of film books with a fresh approach. Take the smartest, liveliest writers in contemporary letters and let them loose on the most vital and popular corners of cinema history: midnight movies, the New Hollywood of the sixties and seventies, film noir, screwball comedies, international cult classics, and more . . . Kicking off the series is Jonathan Lethem’s take on They Live, John Carpenter’s 1988 classic amalgam of deliberate B-movie, sci-fi, horror, anti-Yuppie agitprop. Lethem exfoliates Carpenter’s paranoid satire in a series of penetrating, free-associational forays into the context of a story that peels the human masks off the ghoulish overlords of capitalism. Taking into consideration classic Hollywood cinema and science fiction—as well as popular music and contemporary art and theory—They Live provides a wholly original perspective on Carpenter’s subversive classic.