Abstract The New American Cinema of the 1960s differed from conventional models of filmmaking in many ways, embracing chance, roughness of physical execution, an impoverishment of technical and financial…
1 A little while ago, I was asked by the marketing manager of the University of Minnesota Press to write about The Misfits (USA 1961). The request coincided with the…
Photography as an art form took off in the 1970s and Carol Jerrems’ star rose with it. Seen as a democratically accessible medium unencumbered by the vagaries of history and…
Abstract The American film industry’s response to the events of 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq heralds a transition in its previous reaction to the country at war. During the…