Last House on the Left: Old-Fashioned Eyefuls
Andrew
My course “The American Horror Film Since 1960” was cancelled today for a university function, so the two-class discussion of Last House on the Left (1972) has to be whittled…
Music and brass: La vie est belle
The University of Louisville kicked off the 2012 – 2013 Postcolonial Film Series today with La vie est belle (Life Is Rosy, 1987). Not knowing a lot about African film–or…
“Apparitions inside the stories themselves:” Trajan’s Arch
Trajan’s Arch, a novel by Michael Williams, is one of those rare contemporary works that deliver a “literary” experience while still offering a large portion of unpretentious fun. It may…
NEWS FLASH: Joining the team at BlackWyrm Publishing
BlackWyrm Publishing–the company that released Michael Williams’s recent novels Trajan’s Arch (2010) and Vine (2012) as well as many other compelling works of fantasy, horror, and science fiction–has signed my…
Dancing the “Ballet Mecanique”
response to class discussion of the French experimental film “Le Ballet Mecanique” (1924) For the last couple of years, I’ve been inching toward acceptance of the so-called “experimental” tradition in…