In his book The Open Road, author David Campany puts forth the question: “is America imaginable without the road trip?”[1] Particularly within the world of photography, the curiosity of the road is boundless. Motels, buses, cars, diners and gas stations are now iconic images thanks to landmark photographic works by artists such as Ed Rushca, […]
While much has yet to be written on Sofia Coppola’s film work academically, on a general critical level film discussion about the writer/director is limited to criticisms of gender and family Hollywood connections, which ultimately distracts the viewer from the original intertextual imagery of Coppola’s cinema. Through this essay “Sofia Coppola: Cine-poet,” I hope to […]
“They look like coffee addicts to me, boys!” The plotline for “Straight to Hell” is rather simple despite the evidence of chaos, wacky violence and wild humour that takes place within the narrative. After an attempt to complete a hit-job inside a Los Angeles hotel goes haywire, four criminals (Dick Rude; Courtney Love, pre-Hole fame; […]
Three hung-over, disgruntled men walk out slowly into the bright sunlight from inside a grimy small-town police station. One dressed in leather pants and another in a fringed jacket with a crumpled blue necktie walk to their motorcycles. The other, a young lawyer dressed in a wrinkled, white summer suit, takes a swig from a […]
