VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE
Terry Lindvall, PhD
C S Lewis Professor of Communication and Christian Thought
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VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE Terry Lindvall, PhD C S Lewis Professor of Communication and Christian Thought |
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Writing an
article for Film History Journal dealing with
fictional constructions of Hollywood. Rupert Hughes’ 1922 Souls for Sale recreated Hollywood as a
more sacred site than the Bible belt.
"Embalmed
Images: C S Lewis and the Art of Cinema:" Seeking to
understand British author C S Lewis’ conception of cinema, as
gleaned and extracted through his writings and letters, especially
in light of his view that there is “death in the camera.” Challenging
the classic Hollywood narrative paradigm’s individual causality
of salvation as posed in The
Shawshank Redemption,
I offer the 1940 Strange
Cargo
as an alternate model.
“Sundays
in Norfolk: Silent American Film in a Southern Virginia City”
Perusing hundreds of copies of the local Virginian-Pilot
(frequently through the quasi-exploitative method of teaching
students to use micro-fiche), I am seeking to understand how small
religious communities used film (as a positive alternative to
brothels and saloons in Norfolk!), to discover the role of
evangelist Billy Sunday on moving pictures, and to investigate the
early evolution of theatres such as the Wells, the Granby, and the
American.
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