Hollywood Worldview – The Steps to a Good Review

In class today, SonBear and I worked together and outlined the basic steps on how to write a brief summary of a chapter, book or story. Here are the steps: Read the chapter. Watch the movie. Write down the key points. Stick to no more than 10-12. Re-read our points and compiled them down to [...]

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Hollywood Worldviews- Preface

In the Preface of this book, Godawa outlines for us 4 basic ideas: the importance of a good story, how good storytellers capture the imagination, how movies have become today’s storytellers, and how important it is for us to understand from a Christian worldview the story being told in movies. Movies capture the imagination. Be [...]

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Hollywood Worldviews- Introduction

In all books, as well as movies, there is always a backbone, the path, the key structure, along which everything else is focused. In Brian Godawa’s Hollywood Worldviews, his introduction is this backbone. It outlines several of the book’s key points from a Biblical perspective and really sets the tone for the rest of the book. One key point [...]

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Hollywood Worldview: Introduction

The introduction to  hollywood worldview .  hits alot of good key points on movie making. The author  say’s our cultural psyche has been damaged by hollywood because they push the envelope. They are destroying the purpose of good movies.I mean what would we rather watch braveheart or talledaga knights. Now ya’ll are probably saying well braveheart is not even [...]

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Hollywood Worldviews – Introduction

Someone one said that modern culture has gone to pot. I think we can safely say that modern culture has certainly gone to the movies. Although baseball retains the title of our “national pastime”, going to the movies certainly is a strong 2nd place. Prince Charles of England once commented that contrary to popular opinion, the [...]

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