Sanctuary Cinema : : Origins of the Christian Film Industry / / Terry Lindvall.
Winner of the Religious Communication Association Book of the Year Award for 2008Sanctuary Cinema provides the first history of the origins of the Christian film industry. Focusing on the early days of film during the silent era, it traces the ways in which the Church came to adopt film making as a...
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