Jeffrey Overstreet is a novelist, film critic, and professor who resides in

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Biography

Overstreet teaches at

Seattle Pacific University Seattle Pacific University (SPU) is a private Christian university in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 1891 in conjunction with the Oregon and Washington Conference of the Free Methodist Church as the Seattle Seminary. It became the Seat ...

. His film reviews have been published in ''Paste'', ''Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion'', ''Christianity Today'', ''Risen'', and Seattle Pacific University's ''Response'' magazine. His work has also been highlighted in ''TIME'' magazine. In 2007, Overstreet received the Spiritus Award at the City of the Angels Film Festival in recognition of his writing on cinema.

Critical reception

''Through A Screen Darkly'' earned a "Starred Review" from ''Publishers Weekly''. Filmmaker

Darren Aronofsky Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His films are noted for their surrealistic, melodramatic, and sometimes disturbing elements, often in the form of psychological fiction. Arono ...

has said of the book that it is "Inspirational... sometimes all of us forget that love for movies, that internal spark inside us that movies lit, and your book is going to remind many of us about it."

Selected bibliography

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References

External links

Official website
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