How to Talk to a Movie: Movie-Watching as a Spiritual Exercise

by Bitesize, Kutter Callaway

Overview

Watching a movie is more than an opportunity to be entertained. Watching a movie is an opportunity to meet with God. In a few brief chapters, How to Talk to a Movie will forever change the way you watch movies by opening your eyes and ears to what movies are saying, how they are saying it, and how God might be speaking to you through them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781532613142
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	02/03/2017
Series:	Reel Spirituality Monograph Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Elijah Lynn Davidson is Codirector of Reel Spirituality, a Brehm Center initiative of faith and film at Fuller Theological Seminary. He covers multiple film festivals, hosts the Reel Spirituality podcast, and reviews more than one hundred films each year. He also really likes pie.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword ix

Foreword Kutter Callaway xiii

Preface xv

Acknowledgements xxi

Introduction xxv

1 Why Talking to a Movie Matters Whether You Agree With The Movie Or Not 1

2 Learn to Listen First and Then Respond 15

3 When We Don't Like What We Hear 19

4 Learning to Listen 25

5 Basic Story Structure 28

6 Now, Respond 59

7 An Exercise-Talk to Toy Story 63

8 Conclusion-Four Conversations With Four Filmmakers 67

Appendix: Talking to Toy Story 79

Bibliography 87

Filmography 89