Tag: Film History

April 19, 2019

5 Classic Films that Charmed the Industry and Devastated the Environment

“Well-researched and written in an accessible style, it [Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret] is a thought-provoking alternative history of Hollywood, delving into the disconnect between our enjoyment of screen culture and concern for its environmental impact. It will be of interest to...

April 18, 2019

Book Excerpt! Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies

“Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret is an important new book that exposes the hidden environmental costs of how we make, watch, and dispose of movies.” ~ Alison Anderson, author of Media, Environment and the Network Society Our week-long feature on Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden...

April 15, 2019

A Gilded Hollywood: The Dirty Truth Behind its Silver Screen

“Hunter Vaughan’s forensic accounting uncovers Hollywood’s secretly unpaid debts to the environment, demonstrating ecocriticism’s power to connect political economy to movies’ themes and styles, for analysis and for future makers. More than compelling: entertaining and inspiring.” ~ Sean Cubitt, author...

October 23, 2018

Q&A Looking Back: Ang Lee’s Early Roots

Today is Ang Lee’s birthday. To celebrate, we have a special Q&A with Whitney Crothers Dilley, author of The Cinema of Ang Lee: The Other Side of the Screen, 2nd edition.  Whitney Crothers Dilley’s 2015 book, The Cinema of Ang...

October 2, 2018

Sheri Chinen Biesen on Film Censorship: Regulating America’s Screen

“Through original and rich case studies, this volume explores the authorship, power and organization of censorship in compelling ways. Enormously valuable.” ~ Ellen Scott, University of California, Los Angeles This week one of our featured titles is Sheri Chinen Biesen’s new...

September 27, 2018

Clare O’Farrell on Translating Foucault at the Movies

“Like all of his great interviews, Foucault at the Movies presents Foucault speaking in his own voice. We find Foucault saying that “the art of living” means that psychology must be killed; that the body must be dismantled; that memory must function...

May 4, 2012

Interview with Ross Melnick, author of American Showman: Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908-1935

We conclude our week-long feature on American Showman: Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908-1935 with an interview with the book’s author of Ross Melnick. For more on the book, read excerpts from the book looking...