Title: Eyes wide open : looking for God in popular culture /
Authors: Romanowski, William D.
Publisher: Brazos Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Popular culture Religious aspects Christianity; Popular culture United States
Abstract: From the Publisher: Grounded in Christian principles, this accessible and engaging book offers an informed and fascinating approach to popular culture. William D. Romanowski provides affectionate yet astute analysis of familiar, well-loved movies and television characters from Indiana Jones to Homer Simpson, and he speaks with historical depth and expertise on films from Casablanca to Crash and music from Bruce Springsteen to U2.
Contents: State of the art: worldly amusements no more -- The smoke goes upwards: faith and culture -- Terms of the trade: studying popular art and culture -- Close encounters of the high, low, and divine kind: reimagining the popular arts -- Mapping reality: popular art and culture -- Measuring Christian distinction: moral, ideological, and theological approaches -- Popular art as art: marking the aesthetic -- Cultural landscape: toward a Christian framework -- The American melodramatic way: individualism, religion, and materialism -- The message in the bottle: love, sex, and gender stereotypes -- A history of violence: charting the terrain.