Film Criticism back issues from March 2002:
Film gris: crime, critique and Cold War culture in 1951.(Critical Essay)
Mar 22, 2002; ... One widespread perception holds that after the October 1947 Hollywood Ten trials--particularly after the studio heads pledged in their November 25 Waldorf Statement that they would "not knowingly employ Communists or other subversives"--socially critical filmmaking immediately halted in ...
"So that we have our own color": Mississippi Triangle, textual posturing, and racial negotiation.(Critical Essay)
Mar 22, 2002; ... Introduction Mississippi Triangle (1984) (1) explores the tri-racial configuration of black, white, and Chinese (2) in the Mississippi Delta. (3) The film's narrative progresses topically, beginning with a consideration of the entrance of the Chinese into the Mississippi Delta ...
Budd Boetticher: the last interview.(Interview)
Mar 22, 2002; ... Editor Note: Budd Boetticher died on November 29, 2001, less than six months after this interview. I have changed the original title, "Last of the Hollywood Professionals," to commemorate his passing. L.M. Budd Boetticher (pronounced "bettiker") is primarily known ...
Hollywood Spectatorship: Changing Perceptions of Cinema Audiences.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2002; ... Ed. by Richard Maltby and Melvyn Stokes London: British Film Institute, 2001 vii + 168 pages; $22.95, paper; $65.00, cloth Responding to the lack of attention paid by many critics and theorists to the subject of non-textually constructed spectators and audiences, Hollywood ...
Woody Allen: A Casebook.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2002; ... Kimball King, editor New York: Routledge, 2001 xviii + 158 pp.; $65.00, cloth In terms of the Woody Allen scholarship, the critics have almost been as prolific as the filmmaker himself. In the past ten years there have been several book-length studies--most notably Sam B ....
The Invention of Dolores del Rio.(Book Review)
Mar 22, 2002; ... by Joanne Hershfield, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. 165, pp. Cloth $29.95 Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity by Jeffrey M. Pilcher, Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Press, 247, pp. Cloth $60.00; paper $19.95 Mexico's long-standing, large, ...