Editing Reed College (section)

== In popular culture ==
Reed has been featured in several books and movies. It is often presented as an enigmatic, eccentric institution at which people who do not fit into mainstream society come together to learn.

=== Literature ===
* ''[[Blue Like Jazz]]'' (2003) by [[Donald Miller (author)|Donald Miller]] is a semi-autobiographical account of the author's life, and details the author's encounters with other Reed students while auditing classes there in the early 2000s.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Challies|first=Tim|date=April 27, 2014|title=The Bestsellers: Blue Like Jazz {{!}} Tim Challies|url=https://www.challies.com/articles/the-bestsellers-blue-like-jazz/|access-date=2021-03-14|website=www.challies.com/}}</ref>
* ''The Other'' (2008) by [[David Guterson]] depicts a Reed College student who drops out after his freshman year to live a solitary life in the [[Olympic Mountains]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Reed in Fiction|url=http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/june2012/articles/web_special/reed_fiction.html|access-date=2021-03-14|website=Reed Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Barcott|first=Bruce|date=2008-06-15|title=Into the Woods (Published 2008)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/books/review/Barcott-t.html|access-date=2021-03-14|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* ''[[Steve Jobs (book)|Steve Jobs]]'' (2011) by [[Walter Isaacson]] is a biography commissioned by [[Steve Jobs]], a Reed College dropout, and contains a chapter on Jobs's experience attending Reed College.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson — Summary – Karlbooklover|url=https://www.karlbooklover.com/steve-jobs-by-walter-isaacson-summary/|access-date=2021-03-14|website=www.karlbooklover.com}}</ref>

=== Film ===
The Reed College campus has been the set of several motion pictures since 1977.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Oregonian/OregonLive|first=Jeff Baker {{!}} The|date=2014-07-01|title=5 movies filmed at Reed College; four are failures, one is great|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/movies/2014/07/5_movies_filmed_at_reed_colleg.html|access-date=2021-03-14|website=oregonlive|language=en}}</ref>

* ''[[The Possessed (1977 film)|The Possessed]]'' (1977) is a [[Television film|made-for-television]] [[horror film]] that follows an undead priest who fights demonic forces at a [[women's college]] in [[Salem, Oregon]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=DVD Talk|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/52637/possessed-1977-the/|access-date=2021-03-14|website=www.dvdtalk.com}}</ref>
* ''[[First Love (1977 film)|First Love]]'' (1977) depicts a love story between a male [[College soccer in the United States|college soccer]] player and an attractive female student who is loved by another man.<ref name=":3" />
* ''[[Feast of Love]]'' (2007) depicts the story of a group of friends who live in [[Portland, Oregon]], the film is composed of [[Vignette (literature)|vignettes]], some of which were filmed on the Reed College campus.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite news|date=1977-11-15|title=Clipped From Statesman Journal|pages=10|work=Statesman Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44224594/statesman-journal/|access-date=2021-03-14}}</ref>
* ''[[Into the Wild (film)|Into the Wild]]'' (2007) is an adaptation of the [[Jon Krakauer]] book of the [[Into the Wild (Krakauer book)|same name]] published in 1996, Reed College was used as a stand in during some scenes for [[Emory University]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Singh|first=Prerna|date=2020-12-31|title=Where Was Into the Wild Filmed? All Into the Wild Movie Filming Locations|url=https://thecinemaholic.com/where-was-into-the-wild-filmed-2/|access-date=2021-03-14|website=The Cinemaholic|language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Blue Like Jazz (film)|''Blue Like Jazz'']] (2012) is the film adaptation of the [[Blue Like Jazz|book]] by [[Donald Miller (author)|Donald Miller]]; the film is set and partially filmed at Reed College. The film follows the story of a religiously disillusioned Texan native who moves to the progressive Pacific Northwest to attend Reed College.<ref>{{Citation|title=Blue Like Jazz (2012) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1758575/plotsummary|access-date=2021-03-14}}</ref>