Four Essays: Painlevé; Jennings; Vigo; Ford.
1. Jean Painlevé Jean Painlevé was born in 1902. He died in 1989. He made his first film in 1927 and his last in 1982, in all more than 200…
The Columbian Exchange: Pocahontas and The New World
Among the deepest and most indelible fictions of American national origin is the notion of the “new world” encountered by the earliest English colonists, a world typically characterized as a…