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Winner of the Religious Communication Association Book of the Year Award for 2008
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 to adopt 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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  • Title Sanctuary Cinema: Origins of the Christian Film Industry
  • Author Terry Lindvall
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 303
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York University Press, New York
  • Publication date 2007-02-12
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780814752104 / 0814752101
  • Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.08 x 1.01 in (23.62 x 15.44 x 2.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Category Religion - Church History
  • Library of Congress subjects Silent films - United States - History and, Motion pictures - Religious aspects -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006033344
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

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Terry Lindvall is C. S. Lewis Chair of Communication and Christian Thought at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk, Virginia. Previously he taught at Duke University's Divinity School and was the Walter Mason Fellow of Religious Studies at The College of William and Mary. He is the former president of Regent University, where he was professor of film and communication and the arts and held the Distinguished Chair of Visual Communication. He is the author of Surprised by Laughter: The Comic World of C.S. Lewis; The Mother of All Laughter: Sarah and the Genesis of Comedy; and The Silents of God: Selected Issues and Documents in Silent American Film and Religion, 1908-1926, among other works.

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