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The print edition: R.I.P.
Below are selected articles from issues 14 and 15.
Dialogues with
Madwomen:
Review and Interview with Allie Light
Society calls them mad, but look at society.
Touch of Psycho?
Welles' Influence on Hitchcock
Touch of Evil and Psycho: John W. Hall asks, "Can you tell
the difference?"
Lon Chaney: Supermasochist!
(with a guest appearance by his enabler, Tod Browning)
The only thing this happy-go-lucky cinematic masochist lacked was a butt plug and meat hooks through his tits.
Araki talks about his film-school influences — Godard, Bresson — and the violent "nightmares" he thoughtfully brings to audiences.
The Incredible Shrinking . . .
and Expanding Ethnic Minority or The Racist in the Cupboard
The ethnic body as battlefield — endlessly stretched or shrunken by less
than loving white hands.
Recent Books
A Woman's View, Val Lewton, The Vitagraph "Quality Films," Argentine
Cinema, Nick Ray
The print edition of Bright Lights Film Journal was published from 1974 to 1980 and then again from 1993 to 1995. The print edition is indexed in Film Literature Index, International Index to Film Periodicals, and Media Review Digest. Comments about the print edition can be found here.
Bright Lights migrated to the web in 1996 with the publication of issue 16.
more from the print edition
All the articles in issue 13 (Cinema Hong Kong!) are now available online at our Hong Kong Films page.
Articles from the Film Noir issue (#12) are now available online at our Film Noir page.
The entire Douglas Sirk issue (#6) is available
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