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Date: 13 March 2010 10:40:09
I write, she does film so it's fitting whilst people like me do written blogs people like Head into the Heavens move into video blogs. These are like mini documentarys and well put together ones like the one she's started with have a huge potential I think to be discussion starters with small groups, particularly youth groups. If you are atall interested in film and theology I think you should watch this and have a think about the points she's making about the way it's been largely one way traffic between theology and film with the theologians focusing in on redemptive motifs within film. (Christopher Deacy's Screen Christologies is something worth exploring if you do want to look at film from this perspective that is quality rather than the sort of crude interpretation she's talking about.)
Within the theology realm one exception to alot of what she's talking about has been Gordon Lynch who works in that interdisciplinary space between cultural studies, sociology of religion and theology. His book "Understanding Theology and Popular Culture" is well worth a read on this whole kind of thing.
I think within this aswell it is important to realise that because she's a subject specialist within this medium this is going beyond what Astley and others call "ordinary" theology. The voice of the other specialism is worth hearing from, and giving a particular place at the table to.
Anyway here is her video blog and below it the Smashing Pumpkins video Try, Try, Try which she's talking about.
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/10121925[/vimeo]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qN2JWL8wcE[/youtube]