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Modernity's Art Form

Through a Screen Darkly is a lush guide to film through Christian eyes.

Review by Eric Miller | posted 2/13/2007 08:55AM

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Overstreet's achievement in this book is his winsome articulation of the magnificence of art and its irreplaceable part in a fully human life. With an enlarging vision of the story in which our art has unfolded, his criticism will cut through our enigmatic darkness with yet more light.

Eric Miller is associate professor of history at Geneva College.

Related Elsewhere:

Through a Screen Darkly is available from Christianbook.com.

Jeffrey Overstreet's weekly Film Forum and his film reviews are available at CT Movies.

In 'Studying the Silver Screen,' Rob Moll interviews Overstreet about whether film really is for everyone.

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Laura

Posted: February 14, 2007 9:55 AM

I'm not qualified to comment on the content of Miller's review or the effectiveness of its style in supporting its purpose. But I can assure anyone who's a little flummoxed by all the big words that Miller is not, in point of fact, a blowhard. I went to Geneva, sat under Miller's teaching for a brief time, and knew many other students who liked him well. A professional critic of history and culture, he wrote as all college professors trained in academic inquiry write, and he probably figures that any "lay" reader with the initiative to read reviews on CT.com can also extend himself to pick up a dictionary. A dictionary--imagine that.

Ron C

Posted: February 14, 2007 7:23 AM


May I suggest that if a person does not understand the substance of the writing, that person may want to refrain from rating the content of the article. A comment to the editor about the form would be appropriate, but publicly rating an article that one admittedly does not grasp would seem to be...disingenuous. (Sorry, I couldn't think of any $0.50 words that fit my meaning).

R	Posted: February 13, 2007 10:25 PM


Films and movies have already viewed as postmodern product, but the author held a relatively narrow view towards film.

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