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Sanctuary cinema : origins of the Christian film industry

Title: Sanctuary cinema : origins of the Christian film industry / Terry Lindvall.
Author: Lindvall, Terry.
Publication: New York : New York University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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x, 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"Sanctuary Cinema provides the first history of the origins of the Christian film industry. Focusing on the early days of film during the silent era, it traces the ways in which the Church came to adopt filmmaking as a way of conveying the Christian message to adherents. Surprisingly, rather than separating themselves from Hollywood or American entertainment culture, early Christian film-makers embraced Hollywood cinematic techniques and often populated their films with attractive actors and actresses. Through moving pictures they communicated their sectarian message effectively to believers, and helped to shape subsequent understandings of the Gospel message, which had historically been almost exclusively verbal, not communicated through visual media." "Despite early successes in attracting new adherents with the lure of the film, the early Christian film industry ultimately failed, in large part due to growing fears that film would corrupt the church by substituting an American "civil religion" in place of solid Christian values and amidst continuing Christian unease about the potential for the glorification of images to revert to idolatry. While radio eclipsed the motion picture as the Christian communication media of choice by the 1920s, the early film makers had laid the foundations for the current re-emergence of Christian film and entertainment, from Veggie Tales to The Passion of the Christ."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-296) and index.

Contents

1. The brazen serpent -- 2. Sanctuary cinema -- 3. Divine shows -- 4. Better films -- Conclusion : film as religion.

ISBN

9780814752104 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814752101 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006033344

OCLC

ocm72699516
72699516
SCSB-5314949

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Columbia University Libraries