Hollywood’s Big Sleep Hollywood’s Big Sleep
With negotiations between the Writers Guild and some of Hollywood's major film studios and TV networks at an impasse as the May 1 deadline nears, putting the panic of a strike in...
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Raymond Chandler
Residual Anger Residual Anger
Hollywood unions on the brink.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Marc Cooper
Long Live Indie Film Long Live Indie Film
Reports of its demise are exaggerated.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Geoffrey Gilmore
Matinee Idols Matinee Idols
Farai Chideya, Christopher Hitchens, Barney Frank, Susan Brownmiller, Alexander Cockburn, Katha Pollitt, Slavoj Zizek and Arthur Danto on their favorite screen stars.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors
Reelpolitics Reelpolitics
Cinematic activism is enjoying a comeback.
Mar 15, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Alissa Quart
Dinner Theater Dinner Theater
When I taught at Ted Bundy's alma mater, one student wrote this report: "He was our babysitter. He was not a very nice babysitter. He would play games and scare us and then say th...
Mar 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Tim Appelo
Deconstructing the Election Deconstructing the Election
The history which bears and determines us has the form of a war rather than that of a language: relations of power, not relations of meaning. ...
Mar 8, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Win McCormack
Some Cyberspace of Her Own Some Cyberspace of Her Own
I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face. Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. --Michel Foucau...
Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Bronwyn Garrity
In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
LIBERTÉ, EGALITÉ, FÉMINISME "Feminism...is the most popular and most effective movement to emerge from the sixties left," writes Katha Pollitt in her introdu...
Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
Anti-Catholic? Round Two Anti-Catholic? Round Two
If a critic's clout can be measured by the ability to make an artist's name, the most important art critic in America today is clearly Rudolph Giuliani. Just over a year ago he e...
Mar 1, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt