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The Sun Swing Studies serve to define and defend practices of moral leadership in the production of media entertainment. All interested parties are invited to participate. For more information, please explore our foundation document.

Issue I - Summer 2008

Call for Articles 2009

Written by Administrator

Sun Swing Studies is calling for new articles in areas of critical thought, practical production techniques, and relevant film analysis in areas related to LDS film and cinema studies. Deadline for entries has been extended to August 15th, 2009.

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"Lest I Make My Brother to Offend"

Written by Brent Leavitt

As children of God, one of the many blessings which accompany each human being is the ability to discern good from evil. A profound benefit of increased Christian discipleship is a deepened understanding of the workings of the Holy Ghost. As we grow older, white and black swirl together into a gray, indiscernible to the natural eye. Hopefully, through the Spirit of God, we will always be able to discern black from white and right from wrong.
   

A Sampling of Institutional LDS Cinema: "On the Way Home" and "The Mountain of the Lord"

Written by Brent Leavitt

The Mormon cinema movement of 1999 was a false façade of sorts, enshrouded with ambiguity and uncertainty. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been producing and distributing films since the birth of the cinema itself. If there was some aspect of the cinema that was uniquely new about this theatrical product, it was the most under looked element of the equation, the marketing of Mormon cinema.