As I sit down in the computer room (and not the editing bay, mind you) of the Los Angeles Film Studies Centered where my wife, Piper, is trying to jump into the network of the “Film Industry,” I feel prodigal. I haven’t introduced myself to this wonderful blogging group’s readers, though my name has [...]
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What, exactly, does a theologian as theologian have to say about films? Or, really, about popular narrative altogether? There is a need to ask this question, because “theological criticism” is frequently attempted — not least by myself over the history of this blog, with varying success — but infrequently considered on its own, as a [...]
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