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Looking Closer with Jeffrey Overstreet
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Looking Closer with Jeffrey Overstreet episodes
- On 'The Vast of Night' and the Roswell Incident
In this "Cutaway" episode (between 10 and 20 minutes), Overstreet looks at the 2020 indie sci-fi hit "The Vast of Night" (Amazon Prime) and reveals why it "hits close to home."
20 min - On 'Flannery' and Cancel Culture
In this "Tracking Shot" episode (approximately 30 minutes), Overstreet looks at the 2020 documentary "Flannery" and how it might be useful in a trending argument about the stories of Flannery O'Connor and how she represents African Americans in her stories.
25 min - On 'Blade Runner' and Looking Closer
In this introductory "Master Shot" episode to the Looking Closer with Jeffrey Overstreet podcast, Overstreet gives some close attention to a dramatic turn at the climax of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, and finds there a vocabulary for why he is started writing about movies in the first place, and why he is launching this series of recordings.
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About Looking Closer with Jeffrey Overstreet
From the publisher's feed
Looking Closer with Jeffrey Overstreet—testimonies and conversations about creativity, faith, and art (with a particular passion for cinema)—will include a variety of episodes:
Cutaways: Short, specific episodes of 15 minutes or less;
Tracking Shots: close looks approximately 30 minutes long; and
Master Shots: sweeping, epic episodes of more than 30 minutes.
Your host, Jeffrey Overstreet, is the author of Through a Screen Darkly and the novels Auralia's Colors, Cyndere's Midnight, Raven's Ladder, and The Ale Boy's Feast. He teaches creative writing and film at Seattle Pacific University.