When visitors enter the museum at Wheaton College’s Marion E. Wade Center, which archives work…
Crystal L. DowningNovember 17, 2021
In my current book project, The Wages of Cinema: Looking through the Lens of Dorothy…
Crystal L. DowningJune 28, 2021
Decades ago, when I informed an acquaintance that I had accepted a tenure-track position at…
Crystal L. DowningJune 10, 2021
My first lesson in academic freedom came not long after completing my Ph.D., at which…
Crystal L. DowningMay 14, 2021
A Christian liberal arts education should undermine certitude: something I learned from Dorothy L. Sayers,…
Crystal L. DowningApril 12, 2021
As theaters, museums, and concert halls struggle during these covidious times, I worry about the…
Crystal L. DowningMarch 22, 2021
Related to kinesis, Greek for movement, the word cinema resonates with the beginnings described at…
Crystal L. DowningFebruary 22, 2021
I imagine that most of us are looking through the binocular lenses of scholarly specialization…
Crystal L. DowningJanuary 26, 2021
Annoyed by plump plastic Santas perched on suburban lawns, I was suddenly struck by the…
Crystal L. DowningDecember 14, 2020
During the 1992 election, James Carville coined an infamous aphorism: “It’s the economy, stupid!” I…
Crystal L. DowningNovember 18, 2020
I ended my last post suggesting “the relevance of cinema to Christian orthodoxy.” What exactly…
Crystal L. DowningOctober 26, 2020
As co-director of the Marion E. Wade Center, the world’s most comprehensive archive of books and…
Crystal L. DowningSeptember 14, 2020
Reviewed by Crystal Downing, English and Film Studies, Messiah College Several years ago I began…
Crystal L. DowningJuly 15, 2013
My education in film came in my 20s when a friend named Paul recognized our…
Crystal L. DowningJuly 15, 2011
