I loved Cinematic Faith.
Cinematic Faith was a very good and interesting read. It was original, and well written. An excellent addition to the genre. Everything about it was beautifully complex, yet completely readable. I was blown away by the author’s ability to connect faith and film in such a phenomenal narrative.

This book is great. It will bring you along through many movies that are important and will help you to assess them from a technical standpoint.

I've read a lot of books on critiquing movies and yet i've still learned a lot from this book., I would recommend it.

I was hoping for an interesting book that would give me insights into the question of faith as revealed, explicitly or not, in movies. What I got instead was an overly didactic and professorial de facto textbook. The author gives a class on this question and I strongly suspect that the book is a written and expanded version of his lecture notes for that class.

Cinematic Faith
A Christian Perspective on Movies and Meaning
by William D. Romanowski
Baker Academic & Brazos Press
Baker Academic
Christian , Entertainment
Pub Date 21 May 2019



From the start of the film industry at the turn of the twentieth century the church has played a role in the industry. Catholics, Christians and Evangelicals have all played various roles at different times in helping to allow the Industry to be looked at as a legitimate one.


Various Church groups at various times also worked to get the industry to act in a way they saw more appropriate going as far as to boycott the Industry.


This books shows us how Christians can benefit critically , reading, hearing and reviewing popular film. William Romanowski shows us the benefits of a faith based approach that centers on art and perspective showing how the Christian faith contribute to the movie going experience, allowing us a deeper understanding of movies and life. The author draws examples from classic and contemporary movies to bring these lessons to light.


Cinematic. Faith was a unique, thought provoking look at the Film Industry in the context of the Christian perspective and I find it worthy of five out of five stars!


Happy Reading!

A good textbook on the connection between cinema and faith. The title is a complex read but enjoyable. Readers will need to take time and digest the material slowly.