LONG STRANGE TRIP Captures the Romance, Comedy, and Tragedy of the Grateful Dead
The first music you hear is the Grateful Dead covering “Death Don’t Have No Mercy”…
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.
Articles:
Double Vision – Part 3: THE STEPFORD WIVES and THE LOVE WITCH
The Stepford Wives (1975) and The Love Witch (2016) use an early-70s setting to look…
Double Vision – Part 2: WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? and GOOD MORNING
One way to examine the impact of a new art form is to look at…
Double Vision – Part 1: MODEL SHOP/LIONS LOVE (. . . AND LIES)
Seen as the prototypical city of dreams, Los Angeles is an interesting place to watch…
Reading Against the Grain – Part 6: A WOMAN IS A WOMAN
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, A Woman Is a Woman (1961) could not be a better…
20th CENTURY WOMEN: Life after Watergate
It might be easy to think of 20th Century Women, written and directed by Mike…
The Year in Review: The Summer of Brexit and the Winter of Trump
The idea that films reflect the conditions in which they were made is a given.…
Past and Future in America: A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON
Completed in 1974 by Les Blank, A Poem Is a Naked Person was supposed to…
Being Thankful – Part 1: BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE
Archiving my fairly massive vinyl collection, I have discovered that many of my most cherished…
Halloween Psych-Out – Part 8: THE HOUR OF THE WOLF
It’s long been standard practice to write music for horror films that features an evilly…