Overview :John Sayles is the very paradigm of the contemporary independent filmmaker. By raising much of the funding for his films himself, Sayles fun... Read More
Overview :Leonard Cohen's artistic career is unique. Most poets and novelists do not become rock stars. No other rock star's career peaked in their ei... Read More
Overview :"My ideas of romance came from the movies," said Woody Allen, and it is to the movies--as well as to novels, advice columns, and self-help b... Read More
Overview :Realism has been disparaged for over a hundred years as an outmoded form, and, more recently, as a pernicious illusion, typical of nineteent... Read More
Overview : "Shumway has written a penetrating and provocative account of the making of American civilization as an academic field."Gerald GraffUnivers... Read More
Overview :"All stars are celebrities, but not all celebrities are stars," states David Shumway in the introduction to Rock Star, an informal history ... Read More
Overview :These provocative essays explore the unwritten, often unacknowledged codes, conventions, and ideologies overseeing the evolution and current... Read More