Reel Spirit: A Guide to Movies that Inspire, Explore, and Empower
- ISBN-10
- 0871592487
- ISBN-13
- 9780871592484
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 438
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Unity School of Christianity
- Author
- Raymond Teague
Description
Reel Spirit is your personal guide to spirituality in the movies. This insightful book includes 400 movies with reviews of films from various genres that span the history of the cinema, from the early 1900s through 1999. Inside you'll find a discussion of each of 150 "Main Attraction" movies, with a short synopsis of the story line and a review of the film's main spiritual ideas followed by related films and questions to help draw out themes and issues for discussion.
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