Publication: Freelance
Born in Brooklyn, grew up reading film reviews in Village Voice, where I started writing regularly in the late ‘70s (first review Eraserhead), and have been based ever since. I’m also the Gelb Professor of Humanities at The Cooper Union and the author, co-author or editor of 11 books: Midnight Movies (with Jonathan Rosenbaum); Vulgar Modernism: Writings on Movies and Other Media; Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds; 42nd Street; The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism; Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool: The Writings of Jack Smith (with Ed Leffingwell); On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures; Entertaining America: Jews, Movies and Broadcasting (with Jeffrey Shandler); The Magic Hour: Film at Fin de Siécle; The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties; and (forthcoming from The New Press) An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War.