Special Bonus Episode - Crystal Downing – The Wages of Cinema

2025-05-29

How can we harmonize our Christian faith with the art and craft of film making? Brent talks to Crystal Downing about her new IVP book called ‘The Wages of Cinema: A Christian Aesthetics of Film in Conversation with Dorothy L. Sayers’. Crystal is an award winning author and has published six books. (1:10) Dorothy L. Sayers and film; (6:50) What Christians often miss in film; (9:00) Some film history; (16:40) Sayers own experience of adapting Lord Peter Wimsey for film; (23:50) Sayers’ Christian theory of art; (35:30) War mov...

How can we harmonize our Christian faith with the art and craft of film making?

Brent talks to Crystal Downing about her new IVP book called ‘The Wages of Cinema: A Christian Aesthetics of Film in Conversation with Dorothy L. Sayers’.

Crystal is an award winning author and has published six books.

(1:10) Dorothy L. Sayers and film;
(6:50) What Christians often miss in film;
(9:00) Some film history;
(16:40) Sayers own experience of adapting Lord Peter Wimsey for film;
(23:50) Sayers’ Christian theory of art;
(35:30) War movies;
(38:00) Film noir;
(41:00) Feminist film theory.

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.ivpress.com/the-wages-of-cinema

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