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Paperback Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment Book

ISBN: 0830823212

ISBN13: 9780830823215

Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films With Wisdom & Discernment

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Book Overview

Do you watch movies with your eyes open?You buy your tickets and concessions, and you walk into the theater. Celluloid images flash at twenty-four frames per second, and the hypnotic sequence of moving pictures coaxes you to suspend disbelief and be entertained by the implausible.Unfortunately, many often suspend their beliefs as well, succumbing to subtle lessons in how to behave, think and even perceive reality. Do you find yourself hoping that a sister will succeed in seducing her sibling's husband, that a thief will get away with his crime, that a serial killer will escape judgment? Do you, too, laugh at the bumbling priest and seethe at the intolerant and abusive evangelist? Do you embrace worldviews that infect your faith and wonder, after your head is clear, whether your faith can survive the infection?Brian Godawa guides you through the place of redemption in film, the tricks screenwriters use to communicate their messages, and the mental and spiritual discipline required for watching movies. Hollywood Worldviews helps you enter a dialogue with Hollywood that leads to a happier ending, one that keeps you aware of your culture and awake to your faith.

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Rated 5 stars
Vital reading for movie goers

Brian Godawa suggests that movies are to contemporary culture what the Areopagus was to Ancient Greece -- a significant arena of ideas and communication. Indeed, through well-crafted storytelling, movie makers communicate powerfully to influence the way we think and behave. We must, then, think rationally and reflectively about the films we watch, especially since each of us should understand and impact culture for the good...

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Understanding Culture

Hollywood Worldviews is a book that is as needed as it is almost singularly notable: a Biblically informed analysis of contemporary film that chooses to light a candle rather than curse the darkness. The author, Brian Godawa, is actively involved in the business of motion pictures as a screenwriter (a check of IMDB shows that he has a film, To End All Wars, due out soon). Godawa has clearly been influenced by one of the...

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Publishers Weekly Relativism

Publishers Weekly's review is pure Relativism. Apparently they don't believe in correctness or accuracy. They fault Godawa for believing that there is correct interpretation of art and an accurate view of Heaven. Strangely they don't believe there is such a thing as a correct interpretation of a screenplay and yet they assume their interpretation of Godawa's writing is correct. Their review is Relativism at it's most simplistic...

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Nail on the head ...

For those people who are interested in applying the Word and Will of God to all aspects of their lives, this book truly identifies ways in which we can accomplish such a task as it pertains to our "movie watching". The emphasis the author maintains on Christian WORLDVIEW provides a guiding theme throughout the book, and provides illuminating lessons to those of us not wanting to be fooled, deceived, influenced, or manipulated...

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Opening Our Eyes

Most of us just watch movies to be entertained, not necessarily to "learn". Do we realize that when we watch a movie we are seeing the world through the eyes of the writer/director/producer? This book challenges us to open our eyes to the bigger picture and unveils the worldview being taught to us in several movies. I know that I now watch movies differently than before I read this book! Brian Godawa's clear, thought-provoking...

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