By Patrick McGilligan. Perhaps best known as a biographer of the rich and famous from across the spectrum, Anne Edwards has told the life stories of everyone from screen figures Shirley Temple, Judy Garland, Vivien Leigh and Ronald Reagan (her book Early Reagan was a Pulitzer Prize nominee) to the […]
FILM4 FrightFest 2013 | Returning to London’s Empire Cinema this August
August 6, 2013
By Cleaver Patterson. Running during the August bank holiday weekend each year at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square, the FILM4 FrightFest has now become a regular fixture on the annual horror film festival circuit. The event, celebrating its fourteenth anniversary this year, will be the biggest yet featuring […]
Alain Badiou’s Cinema (2013)
August 6, 2013
Book Review by Brandon Konecny. Since academia’s interest in cinema as an art form, philosophers have frequently proven to be some of the most insightful voices on the subject. Alain Badiou’s Cinema, accordingly, offers such an instance. For the first time in an English translation, the French philosopher’s over 50 […]
Life with Betty White: Performing the Authentic Proto-Feminist in Pioneering Early Television
August 6, 2013
By Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. Betty White has always been ahead of her time. This has been both a blessing and a curse. Most people, even scholars who specialize in television history, have little to no knowledge of the importance of Betty White in early live television, in the invention of […]