About the Book
Small Screen, Big Picture
Television and Lived Religion
Diane Winston , Editor
ISBN: 1-60258-185-1 / 978-1-60258-185-2
Price: $29.95
Discount: Trade
Publication Date: 2009
Specs: Paper Back / 450 pages / Photos
A pioneering study at the intersection of religion and media, Small Screen, Big Picture treats television as a virtual meeting place where Americans across racial, ethnic, economic and religious lines find instructive and inspirational narratives. An interdisciplinary tour de force, this book describes how television converts social concerns, cultural conundrums and metaphysical questions into stories that explore and even shape who we are and would like to be-the building blocks of religious speculation.
Available May 2009
Reviews:
"God and television have been together from the start---from the theologically explicit "Lamp Unto My Feet" and "Life Is Worth Living" to the I-can-walk-again schmaltz of "Highway to Heaven" and "Touched By an Angel." Small Screen, Big Picture, however, concentrates on more recent and complex examples of the partnership. This rich and compelling book describes the remarkable flowering of religious themes in the high-quality television melodramas of the new century. It discusses with both sanity and intelligence two subjects that are often discussed with neither."
-Robert Thompson, Professor of Television and Popular Culture, Syracuse University
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