Author Eric Hoyt

Eric Hoyt

Eric Hoyt is a PhD student in the Division of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California. He received the 2009 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Student Writing Award for his essay, “Writer in the Hole: Desny v. Wilder, Copyright Law, and the Battle over Ideas” (forthcoming in Cinema Journal). Prior to beginning his graduate studies, Hoyt worked at a major Hollywood talent agency.

Hidden Talent: The Emergence of Hollywood Agents by Tom Kemper

Eric Hoyt

December 2009

Book Reviews

Most standard histories of the Hollywood motion picture industry date the rise of powerful talent agencies to the 1950s – the decade when the weakened major studios abandoned long-term talent contracts and MCA ...

Shadows on the Horizon: In a Lonely Place

Criminals Against Decoration: Modernism as a Heist

The New-Ark: trying to disavow anti-blackness

Claustrophobia and Intimacy in Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth and Her Smell

What’s in a Cone? Barbara Loden’s Wanda Between Weakness and Resilience

Come and See The Painted Bird: A Filmmaker’s Plea

Thresholds of Work and Non-Work in Tulapop Saenjaroen’s People on Sunday

Revealing Revelation: The Fiction, the Facts & the Subversion: Revelation 8: Perth International Film Festival

Dreaming of the Mountains: The 9th Dharamshala International Film Festival

Ghost Cities: The 58th Viennale

Queer and Australian Features at the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival

Korean Cinema’s Self-Portrait: The 25th Busan International Film Festival

Live Through This: The 2020 Adelaide Film Festival

“Sense of Place”: The 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival

City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination edited by Murray Pomerance

Revising a Concept: Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, by Jonathan Walley

When Everything Seemed Possible: London’s Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde by David Curtis

“Memories Are Made of This”: Juliane Lorenz and Lothar Schirmer’s R.W. Fassbinder: Film Stills, 1966-1982

Beneath the Tuxedo Elegance: Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend, by Mark Glancy

Anarchist Cinema: A Dream of Resistance: The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki by Stephen Prince

Trade Follows the Film: Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System by Lee Grieveson

Alexander Nevsky

Stairways to Paradise: Youssef Chahine and Alexandria…Why?

At Home Among Strangers (Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих, Nikita Mikhalkov, 1974)

German Yearnings, East and West: The Sons of Great Bear (Josef Mach, 1966)

Waiting for Rain: Oppression and Resistance in Youssef Chahine’s The Land (1970)

Of East and West and High and Low: Lemonade Joe (1964)

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov, Alla Surikova, 1987)

Thornton, Leslie

Scott, Tony

Menzel, Jiří

Wise, Robert

Fernández, Emilio “Indio”

Fei Mu

Huston, John

Hidden Talent: The Emergence of Hollywood Agents by Tom Kemper