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

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. His work has also been highlighted in TIME magazine. In 2007, Overstreet received the Spiritus Award at the City of the Angels Film Festival in recognition of his writing on cinema.

Critical reception

Through A Screen Darkly earned a "Starred Review" from Publishers Weekly. 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."

Selected bibliography