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A 6 page book review of Brian Godawa's Hollywood Worldviews, which offers an interesting and intriguing guide that advises readers on how to watch movies from a Christian perspective. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Brian Godawa, Hollywood Worldviews by Kathie
Easter, October, 2012 -properly! Brian Godawas Hollywood Worldviews offers an interesting and intriguing guide that advises readers on how to watch
movies from a Christian perspective. Godawas purpose is not to evaluate individual films as to their compliance with Christian principles, but rather to educate his readers so that they have
the ability to discern cultural messages, rather than simply absorbing them unquestioningly as entertainment. The following book review offers a brief biography on the author, summarizes the test, and then
offers evaluation and analysis before concluding with the reviewers recommendation. Biography Brian Godawa is an award-winning screenwriter whose work encompasses feature films and documentaries, which have been shown in
theaters as well as television broadcasts. He lectures at both high schools and universities on screenwriting, as well as cinema appreciation, and his articles on cinema and philosophy have been
published in major magazines internationally. Hollywood Worldviews is in its ninth printing and his new book, World Pictures, also addresses the topic of "image and story in the pages of
the Bible" and the ability of these factors to transform Christian life ("Brians Bio," 2012). Summation Godawa begins with a lengthy preface, in which the author describes movies and
makes comparison between cinematic storytelling and the preference for storytelling that is evident in scripture and introduces himself as a screenwriter. In this section, Godawa explicitly states his purpose in
writing this book, which is to aid the movie-going public in discerning the concepts that move a story towards its destination and the relevance of this worldview to their lives
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