Author Peter A. Yacavone

Film studies has never properly reckoned with film performance. As its scholars are primarily concerned with the cultural symbology and influence of stars, what we don’t often get is a sustained reading of how ...

Is Koroshi no rakuin (Branded to Kill, 1967) Suzuki Seijun's revenge on the ten black-and-white "hard boiled" (hādo-boirudo) crime films he had been forced to make between 1956 and 1961 as a contract director a...