William D. Romanowski is Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has coauthored Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture, and the Electronic Media as well as Risky Business: Rock in Film.
William Romanowski has done our embattled society a remarkable
favor by providing an impressively informed and passionately argued
case for the immediate cessation of the culture wars. The energy
exerted in verbal warfare should be redirected into critical and
creative involvement with popular entertainment. He is to be
commended for deconstructing the false polarization of high and low
culture and for reconstructing the linkage of art with the mission
of God in the world.
SCOTT YOUNG, Codirector, City of Angels Film
Festival A well-written history of film's and television's attempts
to define themselves in our culture. It clarifies the many
disparate views with which organized religions have approached the
media. The author presents an excellent argument for media literacy
and voices a strong view that religious leaders should be embracing
and developing the media as the new literature of our time.
JACK SHEA, Catholics in Media Associates Pop Culture Wars is
historically solid, biblically insightful and exciting to read.
Romanowski gives a sharp Christian vision for understanding popular
art and entertainment today without oversimplifying their seductive
complexity.
CALVIN SEERVELD, Institute for Christian Studies
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