Description There\'s no avoiding popular culture--we\'ve been enculturated into it.
This book will help you become a better cultural critic, consumer and creator..
Turner explores how movies use redemptive narratives and parablesways journalistic headlines convey worldview assumptionsdifferences between famous people in the past and celebrities todaywhat ideas are communicated through clothing and fashion designhow technology changes our sense of what is realand much more God entrusts culture to us and gives us the ability to critique it, enjoy it and create it.
Now he provides an insider\'s guide to a wide range of Entertainment pursuits, with biblical frameworks for understanding pop culture genres and artifacts.
Steve Turner has spent his career chronicling and interviewing people from the worlds of music, film, television, fashion, art and literature.
But if Christ is Lord of all of life, then there ought to be Christian ways to engage with and appreciate popular culture.
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.
Description There\'s no avoiding popular culture--we\'ve been enculturated into it
