Essentially a film about failure, Arthur Penn’s 1975 film comes closest to best capturing the haunting malaise that descended on post-Watergate America. Bruce Jackson takes a fresh look at a detective film without ultimate answers.
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Bruce Jackson is James Agee Professor of American Culture and SUNY Distinguished Professor at University at Buffalo. His most recent book is Pictures From a Drawer: Prison and the Art of Portraiture (Temple University Press, 2009). He and Diane Christian have conducted the Buffalo Film Seminars since 2000.
Articles by Bruce Jackson:
Arthur Penn’s 1975 detective thriller contains one of the most noted of references to My Night a Maud’s, but as Bruce Jackson argues, it is more than just a token nod.
In the light of Baz Luhrmann’s announcement that he intends to bring The Great Gatsby to the screen once again, Bruce Jackson looks at the failures already at hand and offers some salient advice about why F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel is so resistant to successful screen adaptation.
An exemplary, early prototype of political documentary filmmaking, de Antonio’s body of work is as vital today as it was in the past. Here, we are given insight into his views on filmmaking; the manner in which de Antonio funded his politically sensitive films; opponents and facilitators; and much, much more.
