About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...

“The dictator craze,” they called it. In the worst of the Great Depression, a time of 25% unemployment, some called for an American-style dictatorship. Democracy wasn’t working very well, time for a ...

Movies are more than just the flickering lights on the screen or just entertainment. Movies are reflections of our desires, emotions, expectations, and boundaries. If they weren’t so intricately fused ...