Against Auteurism: Cinéma Militant: Political Filmmaking and May 1968, by Paul Douglas Grant Michael Sandlin March 2018 Book Reviews Cinéma Militant is academic and film historian Paul Douglas Grant’s admirable attempt to recover and reconsider the long-overlooked cadre of hard-left filmmakers and films inspired by the socio-political flashp...
Labour Intensive: The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and their Guild by Miranda J. Banks Michael Sandlin September 2015 Book Reviews In the immediate aftermath of the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, the unfailingly myopic New York Times directed its geriatric Grey Lady gaze on the subject of the action’s future consequences,...
