Remote virtue : a Christian guide to intentional media viewing - Letherer, Jen (Santa Barbara, California ; Denver, Colorado : Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LCC, 2015)
An imperative to understand the moving image -- What happened to movies and television? -- A brief guide to film criticism -- A brief guide to Christian film criticism -- The moving image as modern literature -- Visual literacy: a viewing primer -- Redemptive narratives -- Truth and the moving image -- Putting it into practice -- Top chef: a study in gastronomic criticism and human behavior -- Modern family: not normal is the new normal -- The walking dead: perspectives on undeath -- Downton Abbey: social progressivism meets period (mellow) drama.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Motion pictures -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects; Television broadcasting -- Religious aspects