Jeffrey Overstreet

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[3] at the City of the Angels Film Festival in recognition of his writing on cinema.

Bibliography

Through A Screen Darkly

Through A Screen Darkly was published by Regal Books in February 2007, and earned a "Starred Review" from Publishers Weekly.[4] In the book, Overstreet shows how films from many different worldviews can offer pieces of a larger truth.[5]

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."[6]


Auralia's Colors

This is the first novel in the series.

Cyndere's Midnight

Released in September 2008, Cyndere's Midnight is the second novel in The Auralia Thread.[7] The story continues the tale of Auralia and introduces new characters into the fantasy series.

Raven's Ladder

Raven's Ladder, the third strand in the Auralia Thread, was released by Waterbrook Press in 2010.

The Ale Boy's Feast

This fourth and final strand in the Auralia Thread was released by Waterbrook Press in March 2011.

References
  1. "About Jeffrey Overstreet". lookingcloser.org. 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. "Product: Through a Screen Darkly". gospellight.com. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
  6. ""Through a Screen Darkly" - reviews and comments". lookingcloser.org. Archived from the original on October 17, 2008. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
  7. "Cyndere's Midnight by Jeffrey Overstreet". PenguinRandomHouse.com. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
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