Film Studies

If you thought the Wild West was only in Texas, look up to the sky. Cowboys In Space, a new exhibit at the Bullock Museum in Austin, shows that cowboys fly spaceships at least as […]

In the 1930s Paul Sethe, Nazi-appointed editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung newspaper, wrote a review of a book on Ivan the Terrible. A recent book by Berghahn claims it was a veiled criticism of Hitler. […]

It’s nearly Halloween: what better time for a scary movie? George Romero’s scary flick Night of the Living Dead, which many regard as the progenitor of the zombie craze we live with today, was made […]

“Stars cannot act. It has never been required of them.” That blunt and pithy statement was made by the great movie expert Iris Barry in a book she wrote in 1926. The quote is used […]

“This was a very mysterious movie – it just sort of descended from the clouds.” That is director Andrew Bujalski describing his own 2013 film Computer Chess, which was given a special screening at the […]