by Todd | Mar 29, 2022 | History, Podcast
The Nigerian film industry is the second most prolific film industry in the world, and their faith-based films, that they label as evangelical themed films, are not fringe like ours, they’re mainstream. Today, my guest is Nollywood scholar Dr. Elizabeth Olayiwola, in...
by Todd | Apr 20, 2020 | History, Podcast
I love film history. Last year I interviewed Dr Terry Lindvall who wrote two in depth books on the history of Christian film. Today’s guest, professor, critic and podcaster, Tyler Smith, has also contributed to the study of Christian film history, not with a book, but...
by Todd | Mar 31, 2020 | History, Podcast
It’s back to film history class today as we travel east to look at the third largest movie industry in the world. It’s a cinematic culture which produced one of my favorite film directors, Wong Kar-Wai, and that is the Hong Kong Cinema. Our guide into this cinematic...
by Todd | Jan 13, 2020 | History, Podcast
Dr. Gary Bettinson, a lecturer in film studies from Lancaster University in the UK is with me to talk about an era of film history that is often overlooked, especially by someone like me because — this the era of cinema I grew up in. It’s called the New...
by Todd | Nov 13, 2019 | Criticism & Media Leader, History, Podcast, Popular, Theology
When I first saw Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life I knew I was watching the work of a brilliant filmmaker and storyteller. This film was a revolution in the way I thought about the cinema. But for all my admiration, there were things about it that perplexed me, and...
by Todd | Oct 27, 2019 | History, Podcast
Dr. Terry Lindvall is with me again to continue talking about Christian film history. In this episode we zero in on the subject of his latest book, God on the Big Screen which considers the correlation between cinematic history and church history by looking at the...