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Roy Anker
 Film Scholar
In a Public Lecture
"It's Taken Me So Long to Come to You"
(The Parabolic Cinema of Paul Schrader).
Wednesday,
September 8, 2004
8:00 p.m.
107 English Philosophy Building
Roy Anker is Professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he teaches writing, literature, and film. He also co-edits “Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought.” Before teaching at Calvin College in 1988, he taught English at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa (1975-88). He is the editor of Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture, and the Electronic Media (Eerdmans,1991) and the author of a two-volume study Self-Help and Popular Religion in American Culture (Greenwood, 1999). In addition he is the author of over 150 reviews and essays on literature, religion, and film. In August, William B. Eerdmans in Grand Rapids, Michigan published his new book on religion and film, Catching Light: Looking for God in Film.
UI Cosponsors: UISG, Institute for Cinema and Culture
SPONSORS: GENEVA CAMPUS MINISTRY, ST. ANDREW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, PEACE CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, CHINESE CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH OF IOWA CITY, NEW LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH, RIVER COMMUNITY CHURCH, CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Cosponsors: First Baptist Church, Newman Catholic Student Center, St. Mary's Catholic Church, United Campus Ministry, Wesley Center/United Methodist Student Ministry, Lighthouse Campus Ministry.
Friends: InterVarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship, New Song Episcopal Church
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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