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Readings

Readings: Out There

By Nick Pinkerton
May 8, 2020
Gene Youngblood’s classic opus shows what the future of moving images looked like a half-century ago

Readings: Video/Art: The First Fifty Years

By Joe Bucciero
May 8, 2020
Barbara London’s memoir/survey demonstrates how the MoMA curator helped shape video art as we know it

Readings: Unstoppable

By Bruce Bennett
May 8, 2020
Whirlwind composer Max Steiner brought passion to rich, classical scores

Excerpt from Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay

By Film Comment
November 20, 2019
Read an exclusive selection from a new annotated edition of Jordan Peele’s screenplay for Get Out.

Readings: Warriors at Work

By Nellie Killian
January 22, 2019
Female filmmakers relate their efforts to make movies and forge a genuinely "new" Hollywood

Readings: Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood

By Carrie Rickey
November 12, 2018
A legendary mogul’s exploits are seen for what they are

Readings: Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa

By Chris Shields
March 23, 2018
Man behind the monsters: a biography of the kaiju director shines light onto his aesthetics and principles

Readings: Eisenstein on Paper: Graphic Works by the Master of Film

By Peter Goldberg
February 5, 2018
Sketch artist: a new collection of Eisenstein’s drawings elaborates on his unrealized projects and passion for the bold image

Readings: After Uniqueness + Smutty Little Movies

By Tyler Maxin
November 15, 2017
Home entertainment: two new books rewind the impact of video on film culture and pornography

Readings: Unchained Melody + Ghost in the Shell

By Marc Walkow
November 1, 2017
Heroine chic: new books from Arrow offer information about live-action and anime classics that were previously unavailable in English