Author Martha P. Nochimson

If we can say that the 48th New York Film Festival offered films that were for the most part concerned with social issues, we certainly cannot accuse the selection committee of putting together a one-note progr...

I Walked With a Zombie (1943 USA 69 mins) Prod Co: RKO Pictures Prod: Val Lewton Dir: Jacques Tourneur Scr: Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray, based on a “story” by Inez Wallace Phot: J. Roy Hunt Ed: Mark Robson ...

Sue Gillett's monograph on Jane Campion's films establishes Campion as a cinematic poet of heterosexuality, “warts and all”. Gillett's intention is to assess Campion's part in the modern struggle to forge a...

Arguing against the proposition that television should be more like film, Nochimson shows how TV's The Sopranos transforms gangster film conventions through serial narrative patterning unique to the medium.

It Happened One Night (1934 USA 105 mins) Source: CAC/NLA Prod Co: Columbia Pictures/A Frank Capra Production Prod, Dir: Frank Capra Scr: Robert Riskin from the story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams ...

David Lynch goes straight? This "family" film is anything but Disney-cosy.

This paper was presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference 2000 at the Congress Plaza Hotel, Chicago on March 11, 2000, as part of the panel I2: Giving Hollywood the Slip(page): The Carnivalesque...