Harrison Blackman is a writer and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. A former Fulbright scholar in Cyprus, he writes frequently about the Eastern Mediterranean. He is the co-editor (with Gonda Van Steen) of Greece at the Turning Point: Remembrances of U.S. Foreign Service Families Living and Working in Postwar Greece, forthcoming from Routledge. Follow him on his Substack, The Usonian.
Harrison Blackman
Articles
Crisis Makes Weird
Harrison Blackman discusses the aesthetics and politics of Greek cinema’s Weird Wave.
On Privacy, Paranoia, and Genre
Harrison Blackman looks at three recent books about privacy, surveillance, and film aesthetics.
“Not a Self-Portrait”: Lynne Sachs’ Film About a Father Who Unspools the Collateral Damage of a Problematic Father
Harrison Blackman investigates what happens when Lynne Sachs loves a father who is hard to love in the recent documentary "Film About a Father Who."
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