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Reforming Hollywood
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How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies
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Artikel-Nr:
9780195387841
Veröffentl:
2012
Erscheinungsdatum:
26.06.2012
Seiten:
336
Autor:
William D Romanowski
Gewicht:
544 g
Format:
241x155x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
William Romanowski is Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College. His books include Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture (a 2002 ECPA Gold Medallion Award Winner) and Pop Culture Wars: Religion and the Role of Entertainment in America Life.
In Reforming Hollywood, William Romanowski tells the long and complex story of the relationship between Protestants of all stripes - from Episcopalians to evangelicals - and the American film industry. Drawing on personal interviews and previously unexamined primary sources, he chronicles Protestant efforts to exert influence on the industry and use movies to promote the moral health of the nation. At the same time, Romanowski shows, mainline Protestants were surprisingly averse to censorship, which they saw as intruding upon individual conscience and antithetical to American democracy--of which they saw themselves as the guardians.
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