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Deep Focus (Engaging Culture)
Film and Theology in Dialogue
Johnston, Robert K., Detweiler, Craig, Callaway, Kutter, Dyrness, William A., Johnston, Robert
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Deep Focus (Engaging Culture)
Film and Theology in Dialogue
Johnston, Robert K., Detweiler, Craig, Callaway, Kutter, Dyrness, William A., Johnston, Robert
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Three media experts guide the Christian moviegoer into a theological conversation with movies in this up-to-date, readable introduction to Christian theology and film. Building on the success of Robert Johnston's Reel Spirituality, the leading textbook in the field for the past 17 years, Deep Focus helps film lovers not only watch movies critically and theologically but also see beneath the surface of their moving images. The book discusses a wide variety of classic and contemporary films and is illustrated with film stills from favorite movies.
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Introduction
1. George Nolfi, quoted in Dylan Callaghan, interview for Writers Guild of America, April 23, 2013.
2. Josh Rottenberg, âJordan Peele on How âGet Outâ Defied the Odds to Become a Full-Blown Cultural Phenomenon,â Los Angeles Times, March 22, 2017, http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-get-out-box-office-phenomenon-20170321-story.html.
3. Ross A. Lincoln, ââGet Outâ Director Jordan Peele Explains âThe Sunken Place,ââ The Wrap, March 17, 2017, https://www.thewrap.com/get-out-director-jordan-peele-explains-the-sunken-place.
Chapter 1: The Power of Film
1. Rose Pacatte, FSP, conversation at the Luce consultation on theology and film, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, December 8, 2005.
2. Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (New York: Harper Entertainment, 1997), 12.
3. McKee, Story, 12.
4. See âFrequency of Going to the Movies in the US,â Statista, accessed August 4, 2017, https://www.statista.com/statistics/264396/frequency-of-going-to-the-movies-in-the-us; âBox Office Revenue in North America from 2001 to 2016 (in Billion US Dollars),â Statista, accessed August 4, 2017, https://www.statista.com/statistics/187061/north-american-box-office-gross-since-2001.
5. Mary McNamara, âThe Bigger Picture: Going to the Movies Remains a Timeless Experience,â Los Angeles Times, June 4, 2017, https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/entertainment/2017/06/08/bigger-picture-going-movies-remains-timeless-experience/102616124.
6. Writing in the first edition of the New Yorker after 9/11, Anthony Lane pointed out that
you could argue that last Tuesday was an instant dismissal of the fantasticâthat people gazed up into the sky and immediately told themselves that this was the real thing. Yet all the evidence suggests the contrary; it was the television commentators as well as those on the ground who resorted to a phrase book culled from cinema: âIt was like a movie.â âIt was like âIndependence Day.ââ âIt was like âDie Hard.ââ âNo, âDie Hard 2.ââ ââArmageddon.ââ And the exclamations from below, from the watchers of the skies caught on video, as they see the aircraft slice into the side of the tower: where have you heard those expressions most recentlyâthe wows, the whoohs, the holy shitsâif not in movie theatres, and even on your own blaspheming tongue? (Anthony Lane, âThis Is Not a Movie,â New Yorker, September 24, 2001)
7. Of course, the downside of this phenomenon is that any preceding history is often lost, as if the whole of human history was birthed along with the advent of film technology. So while movies are the repository for our historical consciousness, they also reflect our historical amnesia.
8. Elizabeth Van Ness, âIs a Cinema Studies Degree the New M.B.A.?,â New York Times, March 6, 2005, https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/movies/is-a-cinema-studies-degree-the-new-mba.html.
9. David Thomson, The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), 136.
10. Jerry Sittser, A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996), 173. Not all responses by children to the movie Bambi are as positive. Stephen King, for example, recalls: âYet 50 years later I can still remember the sense of dismay I felt when Bambiâs mother was killed, leaving the poor little feller alone. I was a single-parent child myself, and I spent many long nights after lights-out thinking about Bambi and wondering what would happen to me if something happened to my mother. I still remember the simple power of the filmâs most potent line: âMan was in the forest.ââ Stephen King, âDo Movies Matter? (Part 1),â Entertainment Weekly, November 14, 2003, 136.
11. Mark Olsen, âOn âA League of Their Ownâsâ 25th Anniversary, Geena Davis Still Isnât Afraid to Say âFeminist,ââ Los Angeles Times, July 4, 2017, http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-geena-davis-a-league-of-their-own-25th-anniversary-interview-20170701-htmlstory.html.
12. Ted Baehr notes the same event but reports alternate figuresâa drop from $9.5 million to $4.1 million. Ted Baehr, What Can We Watch Tonight? A Family Guide to Movies (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003), 15.
13. David Van Biema, âLife Is Sweet for Jack Dowd as Spielbergâs Hit Film Has E.T. Lovers Picking Up the (Reeseâs) Pieces,â People, July 26, 1982, https://people.com/archive/life-is-sweet-for-jack-dowd-as-spielbergs-hit-film-has-e-t-lovers-picking-up-the-reeses-pieces-vol-18-no-4; Leslie Earnest, âOakley Proves Sales Mission Possible,â Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2000, http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jul/20/business/fi-55633; Steven S. Cuellar, âThe âSidewaysâ Effect: A Test for Changes in the Demand for Merlot and Pinot Noir Wines,â Wines & Vines, January 2009, https://www.winesandvines.com/features/article/61265/The-Sideways-Effect.
14. Nick Thompson, âWhen Do Moviegoers Become Pilgrims?,â The Conversation, July 31, 2017, https://theconversation.com/when-do-moviegoers-become-pilgrims-81016.
15. See Carol Pinchefsky, âThe Impact (Economic and Otherwise) of Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit on New Zealand,â Forbes, December 14, 2012, https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpinchefsky/2012/12/14/the-impact-economic-and-otherwise-of-lord-of-the-ringsthe-hobbit-on-new-zealand/#40145ef331b6.
16. âPreventing Tobacco Use among Youth and Young Adults: A Report of the Surgeon General,â US Department of Health and Human Services, 2012, https://www....
Table of contents
- cover
- series page
- title page
- copyright page
- dedication
- contents
- acknowledgments
- introduction
- coming attractions
- act i: film
- act ii: theology
- act iii: dialogue
- epilogue
- notes
- select bibliography of theology and film
- film index
- general index
- back cover