Before BIRDMAN: Films about Actors – Part 4: ALL ABOUT EVE
Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve (1950) is the story of…
John Bruni
John Bruni teaches at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. His book, Scientific Americans: The Making of Popular Science and Evolution in Early-20th-Century U.S. Literature and Culture, was published by University of Wales Press in 2014. His second book, Astonishment and Recognition: Observing Systems in the Films of John Cassavetes, is under review at Fordham University Press.
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Before BIRDMAN: Films about Actors – Part 3: PERSONA
In Persona, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman in 1966, a sharp rebuke is offered…
Before BIRDMAN: Films about Actors – Part 2: OPENING NIGHT
It is hardly surprising that, given John Cassavetes’s acting and directing philosophy that went sharply…
Before BIRDMAN: Films about Actors – Part 1: THE STUNT MAN
The recent success of Birdman illustrates that there is a lucrative market for films about…
“Hear Me Roar” – Part 7: 3 WOMEN
What is noticeable about the women-centered films that have been discussed in this series is…
“Hear Me Roar” – Part 6: AN UNMARRIED WOMAN
Previously, we have looked at films that feature the hopeful beginning of a marriage and…
“Hear Me Roar” – Part 5: GIRL FRIENDS
An especially wrongful cliché about feminism is that it promotes the advancement of women at…
“Hear Me Roar” – Part 4: A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
It seems hardly a coincidence that the looser construction of film narratives in the 70s…
“Hear Me Roar” – Part 3: WANDA
One argument I would like to make in this series on women in 70s U.S.…
“Hear Me Roar” – Part 2: DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE
Despite all of the arguments made for our brave new world of the instant availability…