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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Best Films of 2011 - Steven D. Greydanus2011 was a good year for film, and particularly for depictions of faith in film - but not in the Hollywood mainstream on either count. Read more... The best thing ever written about music in our language - Paul JohnsonIf I had a teenage child with a passion for serious music, I would not hesitate to give him or her Essays in Musical Analysis by Donald Francis Tovey. Read more... The Books of Michael O'Brien - Ellen M. RiceWhatever I am reading, whether fiction or fact, lowbrow or highbrow, it must take a back seat if I find a new Michael O'Brien novel. For some reason, his books are addictive. Read more... The Catholic Bard - Clare AsquithEver since a seventeenth-century Protestant clergyman, Richard Davies, remarked that "William Shakespeare dyed a papist," Shakespeare's religion has been a thorny subject for scholars and biographers. Read more... The Catholic Vision of Frank Capra - Maria Elena de las Carreras KuntzThe career of Frank Capra coincided with the golden age of Hollywood, and many of his films are recognized as classics. Still, most critics seem not to have noticed that Capra's work reflects a profoundly Catholic vision of reality, a vision framed by the Sermon on the Mount. Read more... The Christian Response to Atheism: Dostoevsky - RALPH MCINERNYIn his novels, Dostoevsky brings out the truth that those who "kill" God also kill man and that man without God cannot remain free. Read more... The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - Frederica Mathewes-GreenThanks no doubt to the guiding hand of Lewis' stepson, Douglas Gresham (himself a well-known evangelical), the script keeps the faith. Yet the message does not overpower the story (despite Tolkien's fears), but rather hits the very target Lewis intended. Read more... The Civil War Returns - Bill KauffmanMr. Lincoln said he liked his speeches short and sweet, so here it is: The new Warner Brothers picture "Gods and Generals" is not only the finest movie ever made about the Civil War, it is also the best American historical film. Period. Read more... The Decline and Renewal of Christian Art - Michael D. O'BrienWhy the disappearance of the Christian artist in seemingly benevolent states? Surely this phenomenon points to the deadening of spritual faculties in any materialist society, including our own. Read more... The Efficacy of “No” - Elizabeth ScaliaA few years ago, a neighbor and I were wending our way through a small gallery featuring the work of local artists, when we were stopped in our tracks by a large canvas, or board, from which hung a dozen one-gallon freezer bags containing colorful liquids purporting to be health and beauty products: shampoo, conditioner, feminine hygiene stuffs. Read more... The everyman tenor - Father Raymond de SouzaIl Maestro è morto. Read more... The Fountainhead of Bedford Falls - Joe CarterFrank Capra and Ayn Rand are two names not often mentioned together. Read more... The Future of the European Past - Hilton Kramer and Roger KimballThe dazzling accomplishments of Western science and modern capitalism have made us vastly richer with an unparalleled degree of personal and political liberty, yet the moral and cultural achievements of European civilization-the very achievements that underwrite our prosperity and give meaning and purpose to our liberty-are everywhere under attack. Read more... The Gentlemanly Art of the Insult - George WeigelOne of the (many) signs of our cultural decline is that verbal insults, these days, are almost invariably scatological or sexual, provoking a blizzard of asterisks whenever A wants to put the smackdown on B. Once upon a time, it was not so. Read more... The Glory of Being Shut Up - Marc BarnesWe have lost our awareness of the power of Place to shut us up. Read more... The Gothic Cathedral - Émile MâleOn entering the cathedral it is the sublimity of the great vertical lines which first affects the soul. The nave at Amiens gives an inevitable sense of purification, for by its very beauty the great church acts as a sacrament. Here again it is an image of the world. Read more... The Greatest Gift - Charles ColsonIn 1974, 14-year-old Rod Bennett was sitting before a television set, mesmerized by an old black-and-white film called It’s a Wonderful Life. Read more... The Happiness of Willa Cather - MICHAEL PLATTIf a Christian were asked to point to the books in American literature that portray a good Christian - someone of whom one might say, "yes, that is a portrait; that is the sort of soul I aspire to be" - there are no better portraits than those in the novels of Willa Cather, and few competitors. Read more... The High Cost of Ignoring Beauty - Roger ScrutonPeople need beauty. In so many areas of modern life – in pop music, in television and cinema, in language and literature – beauty is being displaced by raucous and attention-grabbing clichés. Read more... The Iconographic Fiction and Christian Humanism of Flannery O’Connor - Vigen GuroianFlannery O'Connor made it her task to show her readers that the world is surrounded by mystery and that the physical creation is itself an icon and a window into that mystery. Read more... The Image Top 100 Books of the Century - Image: A Journal of the Arts and ReligionA central part of "Image's" mission is to showcase the wealth of "contemporary" writing that grapples in a serious way with religious faith. We hope that the following list offers but a glimpse of that wealth of talent this past century has seen. Read more... The Inescapability of the Gospel - Mark SheaEven the enemies of the gospel already owe all that is best in their own ideologies and myths to Him. Read more... The Inklings: The Other Oxford Movement - Walter HooperThe Oxford Movement began in 1833 under the leadership of John Keble, E.B.Pusey and John Henry Newman. Another movement which began in Oxford a century later and which has given us shelves of great books is that of The Inklings. Read more... The Iron in the Lady - Father George W. RutlerMeryl Streep is not the star of the film, she is the film. Read more... The Language of Beauty - part 4: Words and Things - Peter KreeftThe relation between words and things is for Tolkien the opposite of what we think. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Fri Feb 10 2012 - 01:37:12
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