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

Jeffrey Overstreet
BornPortland, Oregon, United States
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • movie critic
  • teacher
GenreScience fiction, fantasy
Notable worksAuralia's Colors, Through a Screen Darkly
Website
lookingcloser.org

Biography


Overstreet teaches at Seattle Pacific University. 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.[1] His work has also been highlighted in TIME magazine.[2] In 2007, Overstreet received the Spiritus Award at the City of the Angels Film Festival in recognition of his writing on cinema.[3]


Critical reception


Through A Screen Darkly earned a "Starred Review" from Publishers Weekly.[4] Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky 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."[5]


Selected bibliography



References


  1. "About Jeffrey Overstreet". lookingcloser.org. June 25, 2012. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
  2. Corliss, Richard (August 9, 2004). "The Gospel According To Spider-Man". TIME. Archived from the original on July 9, 2008. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
  3. "CT Movies Critic Lauded". Christianity Today.com. Archived from the original on September 10, 2009. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
  4. "Through a Screen Darkly: Looking Closer at Beauty, Truth and Evil in the Movies". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
  5. ""Through a Screen Darkly" - reviews and comments". lookingcloser.org. Archived from the original on October 17, 2008. Retrieved June 23, 2017.





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