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Adele Reinhartz. Scripture on the Silver Screen

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Adele Reinhartz. Scripture on the Silver Screen

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Year:2003
Pages:256
ISBN:0664223591

Book Description"Surely the extensive and broad-ranging use of the Bible in popular films demonstrates how important it is that everyone know something about the Bible, or at least acquire some basic familiarity with its contents. . . . Knowledge of the Bible is important not only for understanding the masterpieces of Western civilization; looking at Hollywood films through the lens of the Bible also reveals the importance of scripture for our ability to appreciate popular culture." ?from the Introduction Eloquently written and meticulously researched, Scripture on the Silver Screen offers all students of scripture?whether in an academic classroom or at home?an inviting new way to further their biblical literacy. By exploring theways the Bible and its contents are appropriated in ...

Charles P. Mitchell. Filmography of Social Issues : A Reference Guide

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Charles P. Mitchell. Filmography of Social Issues : A Reference Guide

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Year:2004
Pages:328
ISBN:0313320373

Book DescriptionSince the early days of silent film, some of the most memorable movies made have been those that have confronted and explored such challenging social issues as poverty or racism. Librarians and educators--as well as cultural historians, students and cinemaphiles-- will find this book a valuable resource for examining films and how they reflect and comment on the major issues of our time. This specialized filmography first identifies and discusses twenty important social issues that have recurred in films over the years. In addition to the films critiqued here, other related titles are listed under each topic. The 100 films discussed in this volume, presented alphabetically in standard reference format, cover a wide spectrum of film perspectives and genres. Many of ...

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Robert C. Bulman. Hollywood Goes to High School: Cinema, Schools, and American Culture

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Robert C. Bulman. Hollywood Goes to High School: Cinema, Schools, and American Culture

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Year:2004
Pages:191
ISBN:0716755416

Book Description Hollywood Goes to High School explores the high school film genre and American culture at large. In this brief supplemental book, Robert Bulman separates high school films into three analytical categories and explores how theyreflect America's preoccupation with individualism and its ambivalent feelings about wealth and inequality. By looking at this genre as more than just entertainment, Bulman shows how these films reflect American attitudes toward education, social class,and adolescence. Hollywood Goes to High School can be incorporated into a variety of courses in sociology, education, history, anthropology, American studies, and film studies.

Gay Hendricks. Spiritual Cinema

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Gay Hendricks. Spiritual Cinema

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Year:2005
Pages:169
ISBN:1401907024

Book DescriptionWould you like to discover a new world of movies that expands your mind, warms your hearts and stirs your soul? If so, this book is sure to become a valuable resource for you. Here you will find a treasure trove of films that inspire you and celebrate every aspect of the human spirit. Spiritual Cinema asks the big questions about life and living: Who are we? Why are we here? Where are we bound? and What can we become when we live at our highest level of potential? This book can lightyour path to hundreds of hours of inspiration and wisdom.

Movies, part 1

The Film Book: A Complete Guide to the World of Cinema

The Film Book: A Complete Guide to the World of Cinema

Lights, camera, action... enter "The Film Book", stage left. Step into the world of cinema with "The Film Book" - the films, the directors, the genres and the styles. Profiling 100 of the world's most influential directors and 100 key cinematic works, the book will take you through the changing ...

Nadoolman Landis, Deborah. Hollywood Costume

Nadoolman Landis, Deborah. Hollywood Costume

This landmark book celebrates, for the very first time, the costume designer's contribution to the telling of the cinematic story in 100 years of Hollywood. Rocking the conventions of what is considered 'costume', Hollywood Costume reveals what is hidden in plain sight: that films are about ...

Movies, part 2

James R. Persse. Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success (PRO-best Practices) (Best Practices (Microsoft))

James R. Persse. Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success (PRO-best Practices) (Best Practices (Microsoft))

Learn best practices for managing software development projects from an unexpected but surprisingly relevant source: the producers of major motion pictures. What can Hollywood s hundred years of filmmaking experience teach the software industry? Like movies, software projects can be complex, ...

Stu Maschwitz. The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap

Stu Maschwitz. The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap

Written by Stu Maschwitz, co-founder of the Orphanage (the legendary guerrilla visual effects studio responsible for amazing and award-winning effects in such movies as Sin City, The Day After Tomorrow, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), this book s a must-have for all those budding ...

Movies, part 3

Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz. Bunuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema

Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz. Bunuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema

Book DescriptionThough Luis Bunuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period. The only English-language study of Bunuel's ...

Charles P. Mitchell. Filmography of Social Issues : A Reference Guide

Charles P. Mitchell. Filmography of Social Issues : A Reference Guide

Book DescriptionSince the early days of silent film, some of the most memorable movies made have been those that have confronted and explored such challenging social issues as poverty or racism. Librarians and educators--as well as cultural historians, students and cinemaphiles-- will find ...

Movies, part 4

Bollyworld : Popular Indian Cinema Through A Transnational Lens

Bollyworld : Popular Indian Cinema Through A Transnational Lens

Book DescriptionThis volume brings together a group of international scholars to analyze the globalized networks of Indian cinema. It provides a critique of a common scholarly tendency in the field of popular cinema of defining Indian films in terms of their modernity and desire for nationhood. ...

Robert Buchar. Czech New Wave Filmmakers in Interviews

Robert Buchar. Czech New Wave Filmmakers in Interviews

Book DescriptionIn Czechoslovakia, in the 1960s, artists began to realize that the aesthetics of social realism contrasted with the realities of daily life; a movement of film arose in response to the politics and history of the nation. This work collects candid interviews with the creators ...

Movies, part 5

Hollywood Abroad: Audiences And Cultural Exchange

Hollywood Abroad: Audiences And Cultural Exchange

Book DescriptionHollywood Abroad is the first book to examine the reception of Hollywood movies by non-American audiences. Although numerous books on film history have analyzed the ways in which American films came to dominate world markets, there has sofar been very little published work on ...

Christine Geraghty. My Beautiful Laundrette : The British Film Guide 9 (Turner Classic Movies British Film Guides)

Christine Geraghty. My Beautiful Laundrette : The British Film Guide 9 (Turner Classic Movies British Film Guides)

Book Description Described by Stuart Hall as "one of the most riveting and important films produced by a black writer in recent years," My Beautiful Laundrette was a significant production for its director Stephen Frears and its writer Hanif Kureshi. Christine Geraghty considers it a crossover ...

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