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Ian Olson is a Mockingbird contributor living with his wife and three children in the lush Midwestern paradise of southern Wisconsin, enraptured with W. H. Auden, David Foster Wallace, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and resisting the gravitational pull of the world‘s despair with (principled) re-enchantment.

“Take, Eat”— Redeeming Consumption in <em>The Platform</em>

“Take, Eat”— Redeeming Consumption in The Platform

October 13, 20200

The Platform is the English title of Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s 2019 Spanish science fiction-horror film, El Hoyo. Its original title poses…

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Who Killed the World? | <em>Mad Max: Fury Road</em> (2015)

Who Killed the World? | Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

August 28, 20200

“Who killed the world?” This question haunts the now five-year-old masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road. Though it is only uttered…

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Oh! The Horror… | of Plausibility Structures of Powers & Poltergeists

Oh! The Horror… | of Plausibility Structures of Powers & Poltergeists

October 12, 20170

The line has distilled itself within American culture, taking its place among a pantheon of iconic phrases immediately recognizable even…

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About Reel World Theology

In today’s world, the medium of film is reaching more and more people than ever before. With American domestic box office sales of over $10 billion in 2012, cinema has a direct line into our culture, our homes, and even our beliefs. It would be foolish to think that these movies, all of which are telling narratives of heroes and villans, science fiction and history, and everything in between, do not have direct access to dictating culture and ideology.

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