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Author Nafis Shafizadeh

Nafis Shafizadeh

Nafis Shafizadeh lives and writes in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books,Film Quarterly,Cineaste, and elsewhere.

Reagan at the Movies: Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan, by J. Hoberman

Nafis Shafizadeh
July 2020
Book Reviews
My concern is with a general movement of reaction and conservative reassurance in the contemporary Hollywood cinema. — Andrew Britton in Blissing Out: The Politics of Reaganite Entertainment (1986) Certain ...

Puya and Jerry Lewis

Nafis Shafizadeh
June 2018
Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia
Puya navigated the Los Angeles traffic like a seasoned pro, without the help of an app. Its streets, traffic lights, accidents, stalled cars, make-or-break freeway decisions, whimsical lane choices; but no horn...
adcreep

The Toad and the Insect: On Mark Bartholomew’s Adcreep: The Case Against Modern Marketing

Nafis Shafizadeh
December 2017
Book Reviews
Several years ago, my wife and I spent a fall week in a remote cabin in the hills of Big Sur. We spent the time mostly enjoying the seclusion of the cabin and its immediate surroundings, spending languid aftern...
The Patsy

The Patsy (1964)

Nafis Shafizadeh
July 2016
Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director
The Patsy and The Struggle of Jerry Lewis In 1995, the novelist and critic Gilbert Adair published his Flickers: An Illustrated Celebration of 100 Years of Cinema. The year, by most historical reckonings, mark...
L'atalante

The Mythographer and the Poet: On Marina Warner’s L’Atalante

Nafis Shafizadeh
March 2016
Book Reviews
Film criticism from literary writers is a tricky business. I am of course using literary as a discursive term rather than a hard and fast category; one indeed can make the argument that all film criticism shoul...
Dr. Strangelove book review

Then and Now: On Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Nafis Shafizadeh
June 2015
Book Reviews
Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks. – General Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove  Death h...

Towards a Single Cinephilia: On An Invention Without a Future: Essays on Cinema by James Naremore

Nafis Shafizadeh
September 2014
Book Reviews
I’m a sucker for a good epigraph. A good epigraph can put the reader in the right state of mind for what follows, creating in her consciousness what film critic Manny Farber referred to as “negative space” – th...

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