Martin Harries is professor of English at UC Irvine. The author of Forgetting Lot’s Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship, he is working on “Theater after Film,” a book about the impact of mass culture on postwar drama.

Martin Harries

On “Manifesto”

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

On Anna Maria Maiolino’s “Entrevidas” (Saturday, September 16, 2017)

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

The War in Troy Did Not Take Place: The Wooster Group’s "Cry, Trojans!"

Martin Harries is professor of English at UC Irvine. The author of Forgetting Lot’s Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship, he is working on “Theater after Film,” a book about the impact of mass culture on postwar drama.