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Is Rock the Real Thing?: On John Scanlan’s “Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself”
Alex Harvey reviews John Scanlan’s “Rock ’n’ Roll Plays Itself: A Screen History.”...
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Alex Harvey
Alex Harvey is a writer and director based in Los Angeles. His book Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles was recently published by Reaktion Books in the United Kingdom and University of Chicago Press in the United States. He is currently making a film about Satyajit Ray and Kolkata.
Articles
The Shadow of Annihilation: On W. G. Sebald
Alex Harvey explores the hidden treasures of memory in the work of W. G. Sebald....
A Desperate Sadness and an Unapologetic Levity: On Jonathan Coe’s “Mr Wilder and Me”
The author’s latest novel is a love letter to one of his major aesthetic influences....
“Here Lies Herm — I Mean, Joe”: On Sydney Ladensohn Stern’s “The Brothers Mankiewicz”
Alex Harvey delves into “The Brothers Mankiewicz” by Sydney Ladensohn Stern....
“A Bullet in the Right Place”: On the 50th Anniversary of Lindsay Anderson’s “if....”
Alex Harvey revisits Lindsay Anderson’s groundbreaking film “if....” 50 years after its premiere....
A New Place of Refuge: On Salka Viertel’s “The Kindness of Strangers”
Alex Harvey appreciates “The Kindness of Strangers,” a classic memoir of Hollywood’s émigré bohemia by Salka Viertel....
Writer’s Brains: The Lasting Worth of Alfred Hayes
Alex Harvey surveys the career of Alfred Hayes, a 20th-century American poet, novelist, and screenwriter....
Entertaining Mr. Lambert
Hollywood of the 1950s, as Gavin Lambert was to discover on his arrival, was marked by secrecy and deceit....
In the Neighborhood: Tom Waits
Tom Waits's Los Angeles...
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