3D: Summer Semester 1: Movies are Not a Low Art

3D: Summer Semester 1: Movies are Not a Low Art

It’s time to go back to class. Newcomer to the podcast David Lichty takes us on an excellent 7-session journey that deals deeply with film and theology. Join us!

The Promised Handout:

A Brief Overview of where we’re going:

  1. Overview – Why movies are great?
  2. Setting Proper Boundaries…Protection? Sure, maybe. But it’s person specific, not content specific. We’ll bring the tools you’ll need.
  3. Worldviews and Assumptions: Seeing through Acts 17
  4. Assumptions and worldviews: We are to test, and not too simplistically.
  5. Things I’ve learned about God from how we watch movies AND You are not a sponge. You are a spokesman.
  6. When Gore is just Porn
  7. How to know what’s good, and the Fun of New Horizons

Also, because of the (previous working) title:

SUPPLEMENT: List of books where the movies are argued to be better

Apocalypse Now Blade Runner
Breakfast at Tiffany’s Cape Fear
Casino Royale Children of Men
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Devil Wears Prada Die Hard
Donnie Brasco Dr. Strangelove
Fight Club Full Metal Jacket
The Godfather Gone Baby Gone
Gone Girl The Graduate
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Jackie Brown Jaws
John Carpenter’s The Thing Mean Girls
Metropolis Night of the Hunter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Out of Sight
Pitch Perfect The Prestige
Psycho Sense and Sensibility
The Shawshank Redemption The Shining
Silence of the Lambs Slumdog Millionaire
Stand By Me There Will Be Blood
To Kill a Mockingbird (ooOOOOooh!) %nbsp;

…and I don’t think I need to include a list going the other way.

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Credits:
The 3D Podcast is ©2016 Redeeming Culture. This class was recorded at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, IN during the summer of 2016.
The theme song is adapted from “Hero” by Doctor Vox, and is released under a CC-BY Creative Commons license. See here for more information: youtu.be/qNuC01Z3lrs
Audio clips from Superman are ©1978 Warner Bros Studios. Audio clips from Jaws are ©1975 Universal Studios. All clips are used here for review and critique purposes only.

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1 comment

Thanks to Critical Commons too, for recognizing the value of clips in education, and hosting the video version. I do recommend that version if you can work it out, but really just so you can see the clips. It is a movies talk, after all. I’ve beefed up the in-between bits with notes and images, of course, just to keep the screen from being distractingly blank, but really it’s about those clips. With David Atwell’s, class #3, I think it’s essential. Not so here, but recommended.

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