Author Ian Olney

Ian Olney

Ian Olney is a Professor of Film Studies at York College of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Zombie Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2017) and Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture (Indiana University Press, 2013), and co-editor, with Antonio Lázaro-Reboll, of The Films of Jess Franco (Wayne State University Press, 2018). His articles and essays on film have appeared in such journals as Quarterly Review of Film and Video and Film Studies, and such edited volumes as A Companion to the Horror Film (Wiley Blackwell, 2014) and Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade (Lexington Books, 2014).

Out of the Shadows: Cloak and Dagger (Fritz Lang, 1946)

Ian Olney

May 2022

CTEQ Annotations on Film

Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger (1946) is a far more interesting film than its middling reputation suggests. A spy story about an American physicist recruited by the US government in 1944 to prevent the Third Rei...

“Wasn’t Born to Follow” / “The Weight” in Easy Rider (1969)

Ian Olney

October 2020

Pop Music in Film

Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969), a herald of Hollywood’s ‘70s renaissance and lament for the death of the ‘60s counterculture, is a movie famously full of moments powered by popular music of the era. No doubt ...