At face value, The Godfather is a cine about corruption, greed, and violence. Where can we acquisition God in that? Everywhere, contends blur analyzer Richard Leonard, SJ, whose book, Movies That Matter: Reading Film through the Lens of Faith (Loyola Press, $14.95, paperback), address into abreast films to advice religious educators, parents, and anyone who loves movies accommodated God in the cinema.
(Vocus/PRWEB ) March 14, 2009 -- At face value, The Godfather is a cine about corruption, greed, and violence. Where can we acquisition God in that? Everywhere, contends blur analyzer Richard Leonard, SJ, whose book, Movies That Matter: Reading Film through the Lens of Faith (Loyola Press, $14.95, paperback), address into abreast films to advice religious educators, parents, and anyone who loves movies accommodated God in the cinema.
"Movies that Matter"
a book every being in pastoral admiral will ambition to use as he or she seeks to be accordant and affectionate in a media world. In this spirited, provocative, and thoroughly clear guide, Fr. Leonard reveals that God is present in the movies, if alone we appearance them through the "lens of faith"--an abreast Christian point of view. Movies That Matter is a apparatus for examination films through that lens of faith: for seeing deeper, for adorning the movie-going experience--and, ultimately, for active bigger as Christians.
In a alternation of abbreviate commentaries and reflections, Fr. Leonard delves into 50 abreast films, highlighting why they amount and cartoon out their lessons, symbolism, and themes. Each of Leonard's reflections opens with basal advice about the blur (its actors, director, rating, length, and date) and two or three "teachable moments"--concepts like "conversion," "hospitality," and "the acceptation of suffering." Following the article are two to three questions for added absorption or accumulation dialogue. By presenting films with bright religious letters (such as The Passion of the Christ) as able-bodied as those that accept subtler Christian capacity (such as Dead Poets Society and Chocolat), Fr. Leonard shows that a cine doesn't accept to be candidly religious to accommodate opportunities for acquirements about the Christian faith.
Even films that assume to attenuate Christian behavior accord us a adventitious to learn. We should claiming the letters in films like The Godfather, says Fr. Leonard. Like the media of accomplished generations--stained glass, sculpture, aflame manuscripts--movies can advice us accomplish decisions about how we abide our lives as Christians, sometimes by assuming us a apple absent of God's love.
An accomplished ability for agents of every stripe, Movies That Matter seeks to animate humans to appoint with movies in a productive, allusive way. Readers accept a passionate, abreast adviser in Fr. Leonard, whose awful developed compassionate of blur and acceptance is axiomatic on every page. As Rose Pacatte, FSP, coauthor of Lights, Camera . . . Faith! says, Movies That Matter is "a book every being in pastoral admiral will ambition to use as he or she seeks to be accordant and affectionate in a media world." In a country area 1.5 billion humans a year appear movies, we can canyon on the acceptance in a accordant way by talking and acquirements about God through film. Movies amount because they are places area we can apprentice about the world, apprentice about ourselves, and apprentice about God.
Richard Leonard, SJ, is a biographer and blur analyzer who has accounting and announced about cinema, culture, and acceptance on four continents. As an Australian Jesuit with beat degrees in canon and film, Leonard is the administrator of the Australian Catholic Film Office.
Movies that Matter:
Reading Film through the Lens of Faith
By Richard Leonard, SJ
Loyola Press
ISBN: 978-0-8294-2201-6, Paperback $14.95
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