That this is an arbitrary exercise hardly needs to be stated. As I entered the year there was no set corpus of literature or body of films which was assigned to me (outside of the rather hefty reading assignments dished out by graduate school). So it is only fitting that as I review the best [...]
Posts Tagged ‘film’
24 Dec
2009 in Review: Film Recommendations – Documentary
Documentary of the Year: Jesus Camp While I respect the genre of documentary I rarely watch them. Partly this is due to the fact that when I take a break from working what I want to hear is a cracking story, rather than be forced to jump into another mentally exhaustin discussion of an issue [...]
14 Feb
Violence, Humor, Film & the Image of God
I like films. Films speak broadly to the issues of our day, and to the issues of humanity. In clever, sometimes subtle, sometimes overt ways they provide commentary on our understanding of life, the universe and everything. The speak to our humanity, our epistemology, our sexuality, our community, our identity, our ideals, our desires, our [...]
