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How Movies Helped Save My Soul

Finding Spiritual Fingerprints in Culturally Significant Films

By Higgins, Gareth I.

Publishers Summary:
Ever wonder why Star Wars ruined your childhood? How Jesus and Prozac are not the same thing? What relationship Martha Stewart has to the brass on the Titanic? What Brad Pitt and ice cream have in common? Why the best sermon I've ever heard was preached by Robert Duvall? How Marlon Brando could be both astonishing and terrible, sometimes in the same film? Why you'll never build a barn as quickly as the Amish, or teach as well as Robin Williams, or fly like Neo, but you still think it's worth trying? How the Oscars are almost always given to the wrong films? Or why most films are pretty terrible? How Movies Helped Save My Soul will tell you. It's a guidebook for the journey into film for postmodern pilgrims. Gareth Higgins not only shows us how to find manna from heaven on the multiplex screen, but provides a recipe for what to do with it (or at least shows us what he did with it). In chapters on anti-heroes, brokenness, conspiracy, death, community, fear, God, justice, love, outsiders, power, quest, and war, we learn how to make sense of our life by looking at it through a celluloid lens. Higgins takes us through more than 500 films that just might change our lives. From The Matrix to Magnolia, Fight Club to Field of Dreams, and The Wizard of Oz to Wings of Desire, the book travels to the ends of the cinema world and back again. Buffs and novices alike will find much to enjoy, provoke, amuse, challenge and confound in How Movies Helped Save My Soul.

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978-0-97145-769-0

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