In the early 1950s, Hollywood went into a “television panic.” Scared to death that their audiences were being eaten up by “that box,” the major studios were desperate to get their audiences back into the […]
“YES” the poster blares, “this is a beautiful American girl in the arms of a Japanese boy!” Beneath this headline a picture of a Japanese man kissing a beautiful white brunette, his left hand splayed […]
Samuel Fuller was never a director who was comfortable with domesticity. Perhaps for this reason he tended to avoid romantic relationships in his films, instead focusing on outsiders, soldiers, and people drawn to close confederations […]
B Roll is a weekly column that digs into the deeper cuts and lesser-known films from legendary directors–the good, the bad, and the awesome. This week, writer Nathanael Hood tackles Otto Preminger’s confused and cartoonish Margin For Error. At first […]
One of the most uncomfortable sub-genres of the Western is the assimilation narrative. Broadly defined as a story wherein a white person joins a Native American people and adopts their ways, assimilation narratives are heavily […]
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