Popcultured: Thinking Christianly About Style, Media and Entertainment

Name: Popcultured: Thinking Christianly About Style, Media and Entertainment
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Steve Turner

Jun 2013 · InterVarsity Press

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There's no avoiding popular culture—we've been enculturated into it. What does it mean to be faithful Christians in a pop culture world? How do we think Christianly about celebrity and leisure? Some Christians try to abstain from "worldly" pursuits, while others consume culture indiscriminately, assuming it has little effect on them. But if Christ is Lord of all of life, then there ought to be Christian ways to engage with and appreciate popular culture.Steve Turner has spent his career chronicling and interviewing people from the worlds of music, film, television, fashion, art and literature. Now he provides an insider's guide to a wide range of entertainment pursuits, with biblical frameworks for understanding pop culture genres and artifacts. Turner explores

how movies use redemptive narratives and parables
ways journalistic headlines convey worldview assumptions
differences between famous people in the past and celebrities today
what ideas arecommunicated through clothing and fashion design
how technology changes our sense of what is real
and much more

God entrusts culture to us and gives us the ability to critique it, enjoy it and create it. This book will help you become a better cultural critic, consumer and creator.

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About the author

Steve Turner is a performance poet, journalist, biographer and author of critically acclaimed anthologies of children's verse. Among his bestselling books for children are The Day I Fell Down the Toilet (1997), Dad, You're Not Funny (2000) and Don't Take Your Elephant to School (2006). Steve makes frequent guest appearances on radio and television and was visiting lecturer on music journalism at Leeds College of Music 2008-2011. He has been interviewed on Today (BBC Radio 4), Front Row (BBC Radio 4), Breakfast (BBC1), Live Drive (BBC Radio 5), Steve Wright Show (BBC Radio 2), Diane Rehm Show (NPR), Laura Ingraham Show, Entertainment USA, Muse (Bloomberg TV), CBC, CBS, CNN, and MTV.

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