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The Silents of God
Selected Issues and Documents in Silent American Film and Religion, 1908-1925
The Silents of God
Selected Issues and Documents in Silent American Film and Religion, 1908-1925
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Description
Covering the historical period from 1908 to 1925, this study showcases pamphlets, magazine articles (from both religious and film periodicals), sermons, and other discourse that chronicle an early vision of church/photoplay cooperation and its subsequent dissolution with the advent of growing suspicion, Hollywood scandals, Sabbatical reform movements, and alternative communication technologies. This collection of documents challenges the enduring fiction that the Church was hostile to the moving picture at its inception; rather, the Church sought to appropriate its potential for evangelism, education, and social reform. Divided into four chronological sections, the study traces the process of religious response to film as a prophetic vision, a series of great debates, the articulation of film as a handmaiden to church work, and the great divorce of church and cinema, culminating in a religious posture and emphasis on rigid censorship rather than creative dialogue.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Moving Pictures and the Pulpit
Chapter 3 "Minister Proposes Sunday Pictures" and "Missionaries and Moving Pictures"
Chapter 4 Editorial: The Clergy and the Moving Picture
Chapter 5 Amusement as a Factor in Man's Spiritual Uplift
Chapter 6 Vaudettes
Chapter 7 The Clergy and the Picture
Chapter 8 The Case for Motion Pictures: Part I
Chapter 9 The Case for Motion Pictures: Part II
Chapter 10 Motography as an Arm of the Church
Chapter 11 The Religious Possibilities of the Motion Picture
Chapter 12 The Picture in the Pulpit (October 26, 1912)
Chapter 13 The Picture in the Pulpit (November 16, 1912)
Chapter 14 The Picture in the Pulpit (December 21, 1912)
Chapter 15 The Motion Picture and the Church
Part 16 The Great Debates, 1913-1919
Chapter 17 Sunday Closings, Commercialism, and the Dangers of the World
Chapter 18 The Theater vs. the Church
Chapter 19 Samson: Six Reels
Chapter 20 Light on Puzzling Passages and Problems
Chapter 21 Motion Pictures in Religious and Educational Work
Chapter 22 The Bible and Moving Pictures
Chapter 23 Studies in Social Christianity: Motion Pictures
Chapter 24 Urging an Alliance of Church and Motion Picture
Chapter 25 Sex Pictures Arouse Louisville Churchmen
Chapter 26 Pictures in Schools and Churches
Chapter 27 How to Preach by Moving Pictures
Chapter 28 The Parson Who Believed in Pictures
Chapter 29 Spiritualism by the Film
Chapter 30 The Moving Picture: A Careful Survey of a Difficult Problem
Chapter 31 An Indictment: The Moving Picture, A Clergyman's Child
Chapter 32 Has Been Neglected by the Church
Chapter 33 In His Steps Today: What Would Jesus Do with the Drama?
Chapter 34 Sunday Pros and Cons Plead
Chapter 35 Cleveland Moffett's Crazy Quilt
Chapter 36 The Moral and Social Effects of the Movies
Part 37 Before the Fall, 1919-1920
Chapter 38 The Motion Picture as a Handmaiden of Religion
Chapter 39 A Conception of Screen as Handmaid of Church
Chapter 40 Expressed by Clergymen
Chapter 41 Let There Be Light!
Chapter 42 Moving Pictures as an Aid to the Church
Chapter 43 If Christ Went to the Movies
Chapter 44 The Motion Pictures as a "Handmaid of Religion"
Chapter 45 Your Enjoyment of Paramount Pictures
Chapter 46 Eleven Picture Commandments
Chapter 47 Education and Pictures
Part 48 The Great Divorce, 1920-1925
Chapter 49 The Flight from Babylon Amid Public Relations
Chapter 50 Motion Picture Madness
Chapter 51 The Church or the Theater
Chapter 52 The Movies-the Devil's Incubator
Chapter 53 Hollywood as Seen by a Minister
Chapter 54 Can Anything Good Come Out of Hollywood?
Chapter 55 The Padre of Hollywood
Chapter 56 Pictures and the Church
Chapter 57 May Christians Attend Picture Shows?
Chapter 58 She Defends Some of the Movies
Chapter 59 More about the Movies
Chapter 60 Conclusion
Product details
Published | Oct 12 2001 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 440 |
ISBN | 9780810839540 |
Imprint | Scarecrow Press |
Dimensions | 223 x 178 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Of course the anthology can only include a fraction of the literature available-but never mind; the absolutely stupendous bibliography...is almost 50 pages.
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