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aLindvallas book provides a wonderful and wonderfully readable
history of this important period. Issues that churches and those
interested in communication, culture, and religion wrestle with
today turn out to have appeared almost 100 years ago. Anyone
interested in film, religion, theology, and culture should read
this book.a
--Paul A. Soukup, S.J., Santa Clara University
aThoroughly researched and free of jargon, this book fills the
gap in film history.a
--"Choice"
aLindvall offers a history of the Protestant Church's role in
making and promoting Christian movies, from the very beginning of
the industry (circa 1895) through the end of the silent era. . . .
This well-researched book is recommended for large academic and
theology collection.a
--"Library Journal XPress"
"Provides a masterful and fascinating survey of the history of
the Christian silent film industry and its demise."
--John Lyden, author of "Film as Religion: Myths, Morals, and
Rituals"
aLindvall provides his readers with the largely untold story of
the beginning decades of the Christian film industry. Now, almost a
hundred years later, message movies with a religious core are
re-emerging. To understand their current pitfalls and promise,
Sanctuary Cinema is important reading. It's also great fun!a
--Robert K. Johnston, Professor of Theology and Culture, Fuller
Theological Seminary, and author of "Reel Spirituality: Theology
and Film in Dialogue"
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
toadopt 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.
Despite early successes in attracting new adherents with the
lure of the film, the early Christian film industry ultimately
failed, in large part due to growing fears that film would corrupt
the church by substituting an American "civil religion" in place of
solid Christian values and amidst continuing Christian unease about
the potential for the glorification of images to revert to
idolatry. While radio eclipsed the motion picture as the Christian
communication media of choice by the 1920, the early film makers
had laid the foundations for the current re-emergence of Christian
film and entertainment, from "Veggie Tales" to "The Passion of the
Christ,"
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