J. Hoberman

J. Hoberman’s An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War will be published in March.

In the LRB Archive:

• America comes to the USSR: The 1950s’ Soviet Dream · 6 January 2011

  • Red Plenty: Industry! Progress! Abundance! Inside the 1950s’ Soviet Dream by Francis Spufford

• Bohemian in Vitebsk: Red Chagall · 9 April 2009

  • Chagall: Love and Exile by Jackie Wullschlager

• First Movie in the White House: ‘Birth of a Nation’ · 12 February 2009

  • D.W. Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’: A History of ‘The Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time’ by Melvyn Stokes

• Thunder in the Mountains: Orson Welles · 6 September 2007

  • Orson Welles: Hello Americans by Simon Callow
  • What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career by Joseph McBride

• Short Cuts: The CIA’s Animal Farm · 5 July 2007

• You’ve got three minutes: Sitting for Warhol · 20 July 2006

  • Andy Warhol Screen Tests: The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Vol. I by Callie Angell

• Subject, Spectator, Phantom: The Strangest Personality Ever to Lead the Free World · 17 February 2005

  • Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief by Mark Feeney

• Donald Duck gets a cuffing: Disney, Benjamin, Adorno · 24 July 2003

  • Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde by Esther Leslie

• Moguls: did the Jews invent Hollywood? · 7 March 2002

  • Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History up to World War Two by Steven Alan Carr

• 11 September · 4 October 2001

• Building an Empire: Oscar Micheaux · 19 July 2001

  • Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films and His Audiences by Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence
  • Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux by J. Ronald Green

• Franklin D, listen to me: Popular (Front) Songs · 17 September 1998

  • Songs for Political Action: Folk Music, Topical Songs and the American Left, 1926-53 edited by Ronald Cohen and Dave Samuelson

• Steaming Torsos · 6 February 1997

  • Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film by Lee Clark Mitchell

• My songs mean as much to my audience as yours do to your congregation · 18 July 1996

  • Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot by Michael Rogin

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