Night Riders and Matinee Movies: The Relationship Between the KKK and American Film
This book could not be timelier, given the nativist and racist rhetoric inflaming discourse among America's Republican Party presidential hopefuls.
Michael Curtis Nelson
Michael Curtis Nelson has a Ph.D. from Indiana University, where he is Director of Publications and Graphics.
‘The Annotated Poe’ Is So Thoroughly Poe
Kevin J. Hayes' thorough analysis includes backgrounds on when and where each poem was first published, its contemporary reception, and critical assessments since.
There’s No Resting in Peace in Roger Corman’s ‘Premature Burial’
So burdened is Ray Milland by the trappings of horror convention that you marvel he doesn’t smother on the spot, even though he is safely above ground.
‘A Year in Champagne’ Is All Fruit and No Acidity
There's plenty of dazzle but little depth in this champagne documentary.
Revolvers, Redemption, and Yasujiro Ozu’s Silent Film Crime Drama
Yasujiro Ozu, like Hitchcock, provides a fascinating case study of how established silent film conventions coexisted alongside emerging sound.
‘The Wild Angels’ Lays Out the Rules of the Biker Film
Roger Corman's 1966 film is the storytelling legacy that works of cinema and television such as Sons of Anarchy draw from.
‘Through a Lens Darkly’ Should Have Let the Pictures Tell the Story
Through a Lens Darkly surveys the often hidden or forgotten history of African Americans as photographic subjects as well as photographers.
All of the Citizens of ‘Nuclear Nation’ Are Forced to Be Expats
Like spent fuel rods, refugees of the Fukushima nuclear disaster are handled delicately, considered toxic, and unwelcome anywhere they go.
‘Uranium Drive-In’ Reveals How Fake Facts Shape Reality
Suzan Beraza's documentary captures the contours and stubborn endurance of myths about uranium mining, as well as the evidence of their tenuous connection to reality.
Greydon Clark’s Sci-Fi ‘Without Warning’ Can’t Resist the Camp
Four writers were involved in Greydon Clark’s sci-fi film Without Warning and not one of them could resist the camp.
Have Our ‘Hearts and Minds’ Really Changed?
There are lessons aplenty about Vietnam in Hearts and Minds—it's a shame we still haven’t learned them.
A Tree Grows in Stoningham: ‘All That Heaven Allows’
There’s no scenery chewing in All That Heaven Allows, just very eloquent décor.