Category Archive for: ‘Issue 39 – Sam Rohdie’

Introduction: Apart from his final, posthumously published book Film Modernism (Manchester University Press, 2015), this essay would appear to be one of the last pieces written by Sam Rohdie, and certainly the last (dated 27 March 2014) in a long line which he sent to Screening the Past down the years. He used his contributions to this journal as a …

Sam Rohdie – Photograph by Margaret Lam [This act of mourning has as its origin a letter of reference, itself updated and revised over 13 years. Because the letter was always truly “in confidence”, Sam never read what it said, and I want to use it here partly because I am sorry now that he never did. On the other hand, …