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Josephine Baker and the Mystery of the Visible

Anne Anlin Cheng's “Second Skin,” is a playful, insanely ambitious text that seeks to rethink standard assumptions about Modernism, race and Josephine Baker in less than 200 pagesThe post Josephine...

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A Note on Geoff Dyer’s “Zona”

Nathan Rogers-Hancock discusses "Zona," Geoff Dyer's book-length eisegesis of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film "Stalker." The post A Note on Geoff Dyer’s “Zona” appeared first on CINESPECT.

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Shallowly Serious

Two recent books on Pauline Kael explore the roots of a sensual critical style that transformed American cinephiliaThe post Shallowly Serious appeared first on CINESPECT.

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“The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema & Jewish Catastrophe”

“Professor Mamlock,” a key film discussed in Olga Gershenson’s new book “The Phantom Holocaust,” screens Jan. 20 at Lincoln CenterThe post “The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema & Jewish...

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