Seeing Through the Media

A Religious View of Communications and Cultural Analysis

By: Michael Warren

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Paperback | 1 September 1997 | Edition Number 1

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Michael Warren seeks in this book to develop strategies to counteract the Christian church's loss of cultural influence in an age of electronic media. While Christianity should offer a vision of things shaped by its own patterns of communal living, it is often stymied in the process of religious formation by the powerful influence of the messages the electronic media convey. Part of the religious leaders task, therefore, is to break the uncritical view of film and television and to introduce reasoned judgment about what Christians should either value or condemn in them. Seeing Through the Media attempts to put basic skills of cultural analysis into the hands of ordinary persons, particularly those who gather with others guided by a religious tradition to worship God. These skills include: a rethinking of the word culture itself; finding the usually anonymous names and faces behind any electronic communication; understanding how culture is produced; skill in decoding the iconic images we see and the metaphoric images by which we see; the ability to evaluate what we see and hear; and new forms of personal and communal agency. A profound and engaging study in which weighty issues are handled with commendable clarity and concision. Chris Arthur, University of Wales Michael Warren is Professor for Religious Education and Catechetical Ministry in the Department of Theology, St. John s University, New York, and the author of Faith, Culture, and the Worshiping Community and Youth, Gospel, Liberation.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Problem of Popular Culture	p. 7
How I Came to Write This Book	p. 7
Cultural Action/Cultural Agency	p. 14
Problems for Religious Traditions	p. 20
Religion as a Culture	p. 21
The Religious Culture as a Culture of Resistance	p. 23
Religious Vision and Life Structure	p. 27
Images and Life Structure	p. 30
What Is Culture?	p. 36
Understanding Culture	p. 38
Culture in Historical Perspective	p. 40
The Contribution of Marx	p. 44
Culture as a Signifying System	p. 46
Religion and Culture: The New Situation	p. 48
The Religious Critique of Culture: The Church as an Example	p. 51
Appreciating the Wider Culture	p. 54
Cultural Reproduction among the Young	p. 62
Schools and the Selective Tradition	p. 66
Culture and the Structure of Feeling	p. 69
Cultural Production as an Avenue to Cultural Analysis	p. 80
Marx and the Subsequent Ignoring of Cultural Production	p. 82
Language as the Seminal "Product" in Cultural Production	p. 86
Rescuing Production from Determinism	p. 87
Critical Demystification	p. 91
Examining Cultural Products at Points of Consumption and Production	p. 94
The Production of "Popular" Music and Toys	p. 97
Frame Analysis of "Young Turks"	p. 100
Analysis of Production and Consumption: Children's Toys	p. 106
Full Participation in the Production of Religious Meaning: A Roman Catholic Example	p. 111
Questions to Foster Cultural Analysis	p. 116
A Theory of Images in Cultural Systems	p. 122
Iconic Images	p. 123
Iconic Images and Mimesis	p. 128
The Significance of Iconic Images	p. 135
Critiquing or Contesting Images: Single-frame Images	p. 140
Critiquing or Contesting Narrative Images	p. 143
Metaphoric Images as Signifiers	p. 152
Understanding Metaphoric Images	p. 152
Comprehensive Metaphors	p. 154
Cultural Action and Metaphoric Images	p. 155
Learning to Contest Single Metaphors and Analogies	p. 159
Inappropriate Metaphors: Some Examples	p. 161
Hegemony and the Possibilities of Contestation	p. 169
Baudrillard's World of Simulation	p. 171
The Culture of Surface: Corroboration of Baudrillard's Position	p. 176
Raymond William's Description of Hegemony	p. 182
The Capacity for Cultural Transcendence: Criticism of Culture	p. 188
Another Look at the Religious Question	p. 190
Bibliography	p. 197
Index	p. 207
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