THIRTY YEARS OF WRITING ON FILM AND CULTURE
FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST INCISIVE WRITERS

This collection of essays covers roughly thirty years of writing about film and culture, from an analysis of On the Waterfront as an apologia for the blacklist, published in 1975 in Film Quarterly, to a 2004 piece on agent/producer Charlie Feldman published in Vanity Fair. Between those bookends, Gods and Monsters presents a variety of articles, including “Machismo and Hollywood’s Working Class” (with Barbara Ehrenreich); a deconstruction of The Deer Hunter; a look at the role played by the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies in snuffing the New Hollywood revolution of the 1970’s and paving the way for the resurgence of the studios in the 1980’s; an exposé of the Sundance Institute; and many others.