Bright Lights Film Journal

From the editor and writers of Bright Lights Film Journal

Action! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.

"I dare anyone to squeeze between two covers a more varied, useful and flat out entertaining sampling of the personalities that make the seventh art the liveliest."
— David Hudson, IFC.com

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Joseph Natoli

Joseph Natoli is the former editor of Postmodern Culture, 1990–2009, for the SUNY Press and author of numerous books. Currently he writes pro bono publico about TV, film, politics, and headline events in the online venues of the future.

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"The horror lingers and seeps; the feelings are sponged away."

» Green Lantern: The Allegory of Fear & Will Unfolded (BLFJ 73 – August 2011)

"Facing fear and not concoctions of fear serving the needs of our own resident guardians of wealth and power is a far different enterprise than joining the enthusiasts of self-empowerments' call "to just wish it."

» Darkening the Image of American Wealth and Power: Unstoppable and The Lincoln Lawyer (BLFJ 73 – August 2011)

"How do you get a "Headstart" program going that isn't about implanting early entrepreneurial ambitions in toddlers but one that gets a head start on that sort of brain ownership? More difficult: How do you develop a resistance to such ownership by the surround we are born into without falling into the illusions of an individual will-to-power?"

» "Gekko Redux, Zuckerberg 'Rock Star,' and the President: Players All" (BLFJ 71 – February 2011)

"For the first time, man's mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being – the self-made man – the American industrialist." –Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

» "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds": Avatar's Psychedelic Fantasy (BLFJ 69 – August 2010)

"What entertains us may be shaping us."

» Living Backward: The Millennials' Alice (BLFJ 68 – May 2010)

"We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near." – Lewis Carroll, "Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow"