Scoring Transcendence
ISBN: 9781602585362
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Baylor University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Animated films; Children''s films; Motion picture music; Motion picture music;

Films are the lingua franca of western culture; for decades they have provided viewers with a universal way of understanding the human experience. And film music, Kutter Callaway demonstrates, has such a profound effect on the human spirit that it demands theological reflection.


By engaging scores from the last decade of popular cinema, Callaway reveals how a musically aware approach to film can yield novel insights into the presence and activity of God in contemporary culture. And, through conversations with these films and their filmmakers, viewers can gain a new understanding of how God may be speaking to modern society through film and its transcendent melodies.

Kutter Callaway is Director of Church Relations and Affiliate Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. He lives in Pasadena, California.


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