You Are What You See Watching Movies Through a Christian Lens

Recommendations for Additional Reading
Other Books that are Well Worth a Read

Christianity/Christian Living

• Answers to Tough Questions Skeptics Ask About the Christian Faith – Josh McDowell
• Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist – John Piper
• Don’t Waste Your Life – John Piper
• I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist – Norman Geisler
• Mere Christianity – CS Lewis
• More Than a Carpenter - Josh McDowell
• The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus – Lee Strobel
• The Great Divorce – CS Lewis
• The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict Fully Updated To Answer The Questions Challenging Christians Today – Josh McDowell
• No More Christian Nice Guy: When Being Nice, Instead of Good, Hurts Men, Women And Children – Paul Coughlin

Christianity & Culture/Arts/Film

• Addicted to Mediocrity: Contemporary Christians and the Arts - Franky Schaeffer
• All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes: Christians and Popular Culture – Kenneth A. Myers
• Art And the Bible: Two Essays – Francis A. Schaeffer
• Art for God’s Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts – Philip Graham Ryken
• Art in Action: Toward a Christian Aesthetic – Nicholas Wolterstorff
• Behind the Screen: Hollywood Insiders on Faith, Film, and Culture – Barbara Nicolosi
• Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture – William Romanowski
• Hollywood Censored: Morality Codes, Catholics, and the Movies – Gregory D. Black
• Hollywood Worldviews – Brian Godawa
• How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture – Francis A. Schaeffer
• HP The Hollywood Project: A Look Into The Minds of the Makers of Spiritually Relevant Films – Alex Field
• Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts – Steve Turner
• A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture – Craig Detweiler
• Movies That Matter: Reading Film Through the Lens of Faith – Richard Leonard
• Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature – Gene Edward, Jr. Veith
• Reframing Theology and Film: New Focus for an Emerging Discipline – Robert Johnston
• Roaring Lambs – Robert Briner
• The Heart of the Artist – Rory Noland
• The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly about the Arts – Leland Ryken
• The Making of American Audiences: From Stage to Television, 1750-1990 – Richard Butsch
• The Message Behind the Movie: How to Engage With a Film Without Disengaging Your Faith – Douglas Beaumont
• Through a Screen Darkly – Jeffrey Overstreet
• Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity – Nancy R. Pearcey
• Useless Beauty: Ecclesiastes through the Lens of Contemporary Film – Robert Johnston
• Visual Faith: Art, Theology, and Worship in Dialogue – William Dyrness
• Word Pictures: Knowing God Through Story & Imagination – Brian Godawa

Social Marketing

• Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business – Neil Postman
• Branded Entertainment: Product Placement & Brand Strategy in the Entertainment Business – Jean-Marc Lehu
• How to Watch TV News: Revised Edition – Neil Postman
• Marketing Social Change: Changing Behavior to Promote Health, Social Development, and the Environment – Alan R. Andreasen
• Media Literacy – Dr. W. James Potter
• Pop Culture Wars: Religion & the Role of Entertainment in American Life – William D. Romanowski
• Public Relations: Strategies and Tactics – Dennis L. Wilcox
• The Art of Cause Marketing: How to Use Advertising to Change Personal Behavior and Public Policy – Richard Earle
• The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art – Roger Kimball

Film History

• Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know – Jennifer Van Sijll
• Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen –Steve Katz
• Film History: An Introduction – Kristin Thompson
• Film School: How to Watch DVDs and Learn Everything About Filmmaking – Richard D. Pepperman
• How to Read a Book – Mortimer J. Adler
• In the Blink of an Eye – Walter Murch
• Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934 – Thomas Doherty
• The Film Snob’s Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Filmological Knowledge – David Kemp
• The Oxford History of World Cinema – Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
• The Visual Story: Seeing the Structure of Film, TV and New Media – Bruce Block

Mythology/Folklore

• Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore – Alan Dundes
• In Quest of the Hero – Otto Rank, Lord Fitzroy Richard Somerset Raglan and Alan Dundes
• Myth & the Movies: Discovering the Myth Structure of 50 Unforgettable Films – Stuart Voytilla
• Poetics – Aristotle
• Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth – Alan Dundes
• Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting – Syd Field
• The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives – Lajos Egri
• The Golden Bough – James George Frazer
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell
• The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth, and Drama – Lord Fitzroy Richard Somerset Raglan
• The Power of Myth – Joseph Campbell
• The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers – Christopher Vogler