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Redeeming Television. Quentin J. Schultze. InterVarsity, 1992. An insightful book on how TV changes Christians and how Christians can change TV. Offers practical and balanced suggestions on how to become active instead of passive viewers.
Watching What We Watch: Prime-Time Television Through the Lens of Faith. Walter T. Davis, Jr. and others. Westminster John Knox Press, 2001. Operating from the perspective that television has replaced both the church and school as the dominant storyteller of our time, this team of media educators invites readers to develop a critical method of viewing all genres of television. Appendices include helpful work sheets and charts.
The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the World's Most Animated Family. Mark Pinsky. Westminster John Knox Press, 2001. The author investigates spirituality and representations of faith in the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Simpsons cartoon.