Paradise Lost 2013 Movie: Who is the Hero of Milton’s Epic?
***Oops – the movie adaptation of Paradise Lost starring Bradley Cooper has been canned as of February, 2012! It’s a crying shame…Hope they revive it down the road.*** For the past decade,...
View ArticleThe link between Paradise Lost and YA post-apocalyptic fiction
I’m working on a paper for an Apocalypse conference in Romania the details are fuzzy, but I wanted to make some notes to come back to later. In short, the majority of contemporary post-apocalyptic YA...
View ArticleHow Wreck-it Ralph is secretly teaching kids to love Satan
Within just the past decade, there has been a rapid shift in the characterization of the Other – from monstrous, to misunderstood; from frightening to friendly. Thus, vampires, werewolves and witches...
View ArticleMarvel’s DareDevil TV Series explores the shifting boundaries between villain...
This is a (a)theological companion to Marvel’s 2015 DareDevil TV Series. The series narrative starts like this: the main hero goes to church to ask forgiveness for what he’s about to do. He draws the...
View ArticleA Paradise Lost Study Guide – How Satan Saved the World
I started planning this book, which became my PhD Thesis, about 5 years ago. It didn’t turn out to be exactly what I expected – it’s a mashup of Paradise Lost scholarship and a comparative history of...
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