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Author Lindvall, Terry

Title Sanctuary cinema : origins of the Christian film industry / Terry Lindvall
Published New York : New York University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Contents The Brazen serpent -- Sanctuary cinema -- Divine shows -- Better films -- Film as religion
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 film making as a way of conveying the Christian message to adherents. Surprisingly, rather than separating themselves from Hollywood or the American entertainment culture, early Christian film makers embraced Hollywood cinematic techniques and often populated their films with attractive actors and actresses. But 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. -- PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296) and index
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Subject Silent films -- United States -- History and criticism
Motion pictures in Christian education.
Christian films -- United States -- History and criticism
Motion pictures -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Christian films
Motion pictures in Christian education
Motion pictures -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Silent films
Stummfilm
Christ
Films.
Christendom.
Stummfilm -- USA -- Geschichte.
Film -- Motiv -- Religion -- USA -- Geschichte.
Religion -- Motiv -- Film -- USA -- Geschichte.
Christentum -- Filmindustrie -- USA -- Hollywood -- Geschichte -- 1895-1930.
Film -- Motiv (Kunst) -- Christentum -- Geschichte -- 1895-1930.
Christentum -- Motiv (Kunst) -- Film -- USA -- Hollywood -- Geschichte -- 1895-1930.
United States
Hollywood -- Filmindustrie -- Christentum -- USA -- Hollywood -- Geschichte -- 1895-1930.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814753231
081475323X