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Though I don't share its religious orientation, I love the way in which it recovers the sense that real audiences often report of the mysterious, the uplifting and the sometimes awesome experience of watching films.' -Martin Barker, Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 'Marsh is right  Popular movies do more than mindlessly entertain or illustrate truth already known. By considering the affective nature of the reader\/viewer, Cinema and Sentiment explores the central point of connection between theology and film.' --Professor Robert K. 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