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Bright Lights Film Journal
Issue 22 | September 1998

features

Tex Avery — A look at the life and career of the beloved animator

Goosing Mother Goose — The cartoon fairy tales of Tex Avery

The Spirit Moves: The World of Kenji Mizoguchi — One of the undisputed masters of Japanese cinema

Brought Low by Life: Mizoguchi's The Life of Oharu — Nobody suffers like Oharu

Pre-"Felliniesque" Fellini: The Nights of Cabiria — The crown jewel of Fellini's pre-"Felliniesque" work

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homo corner

Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss — Again Hollywood cheats on the issue of two men kissing — when are they going to get it right?

Thom Fitzgerald's The Hanging Garden — The fairy tale about the ugly duckling who turns into a swan gets the gay once-over

video review

Oskar Fischinger's Visual Music: The Films of Oskar Fischinger, Vol. 1 (animation)

book reviews

Little Joe, Superstar: The Films of Joe Dallesandro, by Michael Ferguson

The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry, by Anthony Slide

Joseph H. Lewis: Overview, Interview, and Filmography, by Francis M. Nevins