Publication As Autobiography

The Goal Of Virtually All My Writing Has Been To Bring Attention To Cinematic (and, Early On, Literary) Accomplishments That Have Not Received The Careful Attention, Or The Audiences, They Deserve. Im Hoping That This Collection Might Create Awareness Of Cultural Achievements That Have Remained Underserved Or Are In Danger Of Fading From Cultural Memory. Collecting Essays For Publication As Autobiography, Which Is Organized Chronologically, Has Allowed Me To Consider How Successive Decades Have Transformed My Writing And How Recent Developments Are Transforming The Field Of Cinema And Media Studies.the Subjects Of The Essays Collected Here Include The Betrayal Of A Canonical Hemingway Short Story, Erskine Caldwells Experiments With Dialogue; And A Range Of Films By Larry Gottheim, J.j.