Meaning at the movies
Subtitle: becoming a discerning viewer
By: Grant Horner.
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Wheaton, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433512285; 9781433512292; 9781433512308; 9781433524011
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects; Motion pictures -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: movies, truth, and the origins of culture; title: Practical considerations. Thinking about looking: the lost art of discernment; title: Welcome to the real world: the many ways of misunderstanding basically everything; title: How to interrogate a movie; title: Analysis. A time to laugh: a theological approach to comedy; title: Exorcising the psycho: the invention of fear for pleasure; title: Hollywood invents romance: of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine; title: Film noir: the dark side, or Solomon goes to Hollywood; title: The end of the matter: movies and meaning, memory and man.