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Meaning at the Movies: Becoming a Discerning Viewer (eBook)

Grant Horner (Author)

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Formats: Kindle (.prc) or ePub
Publisher: Crossway
Kindle ISBN: 9781433512308
ePub ISBN: 9781433524011
File Size: 493 KB
Printed Length: 224

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Description: This illuminating book helps Christians think biblically and critically about the art and culture of film, moving beyond simple moral judgments to an understanding of deeper worldviews and philosophical meaning.

Hollywood produces, packages, and sells hundreds of movies every year. Many of these movies propagate a distorted sense of morality and ethics. Under the surface of immoral behavior and unlawfulness,however, there can be deeper problems in Hollywood's messages. What are these stories telling the viewer about life, relationships, and God? What worldviews and ideas do they espouse? If Christians are to tread carefully at the theater complex, they need resources to help them.

This book is just such a resource. By exploring the relationship between Christianity and art, the theology of biblical discernment,and a brief history of film making, as well as through analysis of popular films, Meaning at the Movies equips readers for careful discernment in the cinema. The book does not simply list criteria for judging film art; instead it encourages Christians to develop biblical and critical discernment in regard to not only film, but all aspects of culture.

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“This book will help Christians learn how to apply their faith to watching movies, to think more deeply and discerningly about those movies, and to avoid the pitfalls of both cultural anorexia and cultural gluttony when it comes to the cinema. Grant Horner writes from the most helpful perspective: that of a biblically informed teacher and a plain and simple movie lover.”
-Brian Godawa , screenwriter, To End All Wars; author, Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment

“Grant Horner has tackled a very appropriate subject for today’s media saturated world. Meaning at the Movies develops a needed, insightful biblical perspective on how we, as believers, should process what is heard and seen in today’s entertainment culture. It will encourage any reader, as it did me, to not just be a passive audience member, but to develop a desire to find what’s at the heart of the films we watch. Mr. Horner explains how films mirror societal beliefs. By breaking down these varying secular worldviews, through a discerning Christian lens, we will be better equipped to respond to a culture in dire need of a Savior.”
-Rick Dempsey , Sr. Vice President, Creative, The Walt Disney Studios

About the Author
Grant Horner (PhD/ABD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) is associate professor of English at the Master's College and has taught film at the college level for fourteen years. He was a contributor to John MacArthur's Think Biblically! and speaks regularly on current theological trends, philosophy, and popular culture.
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