Anne Hellman’s Novel ‘The Indecipherables’ Is Pure Cinema
The Indecipherables, Anne Hellman’s pastiche of Hitchcock’s, Lynch’s, and Serling’s respective oeuvres, is a successful homage to “pure cinema”.
Douglas MacLeod
Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr., an Associate Professor of Composition and Communication at SUNY Cobleskill, has been publishing academic book reviews since 2006. He has also written encyclopedia entries and articles for various print and online academic journals, and anthologies, including Film and History, Scope, Warscapes, The Journal of American Studies of Turkey, and On the Seawall (among others). MacLeod has also presented papers at academic conferences on such topics as how to use stand-up comedy as a tool to help composition writers, Oliver Stone as genre filmmaker, how children and parents are represented in The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock's sadomasochistic cinema, Marathon Man as Holocaust drama, etc. MacLeod considers himself an inter-disciplinarian; however, the bulk of his studies revolve around all areas of the humanities.
The Black Dahlia Is a Victim of Time
Journalist and historian William J. Mann tries to conjure who the “Black Dahlia”, Elizabeth Short, really was, but time is a powerful killer.