HOLLYWOOD WORLDVIEWS: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment
Brian Godawa, . . InterVarsity, $14 (204pp) ISBN 978-0-8308-2321-5
An award-winning Christian Hollywood scriptwriter offers this rather uneven book on how to watch movies discerningly as a faithful Christian. Godawa's purpose is not to help readers decide which films are worth seeing (for that he refers them to Christian Web sites), but rather how to "read" a film for its messages as opposed to absorbing it only as entertainment. One of his main arguments is that Christians should engage the world of popular culture in order to reform it. Unfortunately, it is not always clear who he expects his audience to be. Sometimes he writes very simplistically; he ends his definition of "worldview" with the phrase "it is our
Reviewed on: 06/10/2002
Genre: Nonfiction