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“Jeffrey Overstreet is a witness. While habituating the dark caves of movie theaters, he gives articulate witness to what I too often miss in those caves — the contours of God’s creation and the language of Christ’s salvation. … I find him a delightful and most percipient companion — a faithful Christian witness.”

- Eugene Peterson, author of The Message and Tell It Slant, on Overstreet’s moviegoing memoir Through a Screen Darkly

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"Jeffrey is ... one of my favorite film critics. He writes with great lucidity and compassion about all sorts of movies, from all sorts of angles, but what I value most about his work is the theological-moral perspective he takes on things. He’s not a dogmatic scold, sifting through popular art looking for work that fits a rigid world view; he’s more interested in Looking Closer, as his blog title suggests, to discover what, if anything, the work is saying."

- Matt Zoller Seitz, founder of the film review websites The House Next Door and Press Play (at indieWire) and television critic for New York Magazine

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“Overstreet’s writing is precise and beautiful, and the story is masterfully told.”

- Publisher’s Weekly on Overstreet’s novel Auralia’s Colors

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“In Auralia’s Colors, Overstreet masterfully extends the borders of imagination.”

- Gina Ochsner, author of The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight

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“… [T]he spirit of the Inklings is alive and well and at least one living writer could have held his own at their table!”

- Dick Staub, author of The Culturally Savvy Christian

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“Jeffrey Overstreet is a trespasser. He’s constantly moving outside of the borders of what church and culture deem to be ironclad, eternal categories (sacred vs. profane, high culture vs. popular culture) — and he has a knack for bringing people along with him. His passport? The imagination. ... When you trespass with Jeffrey Overstreet, you don’t have to ask for forgiveness.”

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EXCUSE OUR DUST: This blog is under construction. Please email Jeffrey if you find broken links or problems. Many reviews, interviews, and posts are still being restored from the past decade of blogging. So check it out: This blog will expand both forward and backward in time. The future is now, and yesterday is not so very far away.

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About Jeffrey Overstreet

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About Looking Closer: An Introduction

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Comment Policy

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Overstreet on Tour: Speaking Calendar

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Some Favorite Quotes

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Some Favorite Sites

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"Mystery & Message," by Michael Demkowicz

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The Auralia Thread, Book One: Auralia's Colors

The Auralia Thread, Book Two: Cyndere's Midnight

The Auralia Thread, Book Three: Raven's Ladder

The Auralia Thread, Book Four: The Ale Boy's Feast

Through a Screen Darkly

Jeffrey Overstreet's Through a Screen Darkly is a memoir of "dangerous moviegoing," which has become a popular university textbook on film, faith, and cultural engagement, and which earned praise from readers like Eugene Peterson, Gregory Wolfe, Scott Derrickson, Darren Aronofsky, and Dick Staub. Publisher's Weekly awarded it a "Starred Review."

Backstage Pass
Church of the Masses Doc Hollywood

Faith Goes Pop

Film Chat

Good Letters

Schaeffer's Ghost

Sister Rose Movies

Tinsel