Bright Lights Film Journal :: Jack Stevenson

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.

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Jack Stevenson

jack.stevenson@mail.dk

Jack Stevenson is an American film writer living in Denmark since 1993 with a dual speciality in American exploitation and Danish cinema. His books include Lars von Trier (BFI), Dogme Uncut (Santa Monica Press), Addicted (Creation Books), Fleshpot and Land of a Thousand Balconies (Headpress), Witchcraft Through the Ages for FAB (UK) and this fall (2009) will release Scandinavian Blue (McFarland).

» Haunted Cinema: Movie Theatres of the Dead (BLFJ 70 – November 2010)

"There are no start times, there are no intermissions . . . there is no beginning, there is no end."

» Porno to the People: The Danish Revolution That Liberated America (BLFJ 66 – November 2009)

"Tease was out, honesty was in."

» Jesus Fucking Christ: Lars von Trier's Antichrist (BLFJ 65 – August 2009)

The scandal-plagued release of Lars von Trier's latest film inspired Jack Stevenson, American expat in Copenhagen, to take a deeper look at the film in a Danish context.

» Lars von Trier: Pornographer? (BLFJ 43 – February 2004)

Impossible...

» The Wave Breaks: Star Danish Directors Fail to Translate (BLFJ 41 – August 2003)

From the regional to the international and back in a few short years

» The Day the Bronx Invaded Earth: The Life and Times of Mike and George Kuchar (BLFJ 26 – November 1999)

Jack Stevenson turns his searchlights on New York’s legendary underground kitschmeisters