Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures: Film and the First Amendment

<h4>Michael Sandlin is a Houston, TX–based writer and critic whose writing on film and books has appeared in the Village Voice, Bookforum, Film Quarterly, Cineaste, and many other print and online publications.</h4>

Michael Sandlin

The Absurdity of Obscenity

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

Film

Tinseltown

Pre-Code Hollywood Confidential

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett

Noir

Michael Sandlin is a Houston, TX–based writer and critic whose writing on film and books has appeared in the Village Voice, Bookforum, Film Quarterly, Cineaste, and many other print and online publications.