BOOK: Studying Western Civilization Through Film

[Frank W. Baker]

Now Playing: Studying Western Civilization Through Film (Oxford University Press) focuses on the ways in which the major ideas and passions of Western culture developed, internally, and how they interacted with the broader world - for good and for ill. Key among these ideas and passions are religion, science, and philosophy, all of whose development form the central narrative of this book. 

Although the book's audience is undergraduate students, high school social studies teachers, who use film to supplement instruction, may also benefit from the text.