Trickster Mickey
"Mickey! Mickey! Tricky Mickey Mouse!”
Field Notes
Before analysis can begin, we must venture out and collect data.
The Lady Vanishes
“Bless me, what an unpleasant journey!”
In Love with the Actress
"She was playing a part that I could understand."
Wild in the Streets
Shelley Winters struggles to close the generation gap.
Love, Dr. Strange
He looks like a man who’s been through an ordeal.
The Guv’nor
His commitment to peripatetic idling never wavers.
Origin of the Pogo
The role of anthropologists is to interpret the guiding symbols of each culture.
The Asphalt Jungle
The least understood aspect of the human psyche is the ego.
Gone With the Wind
Bodies will be stacked together on battlefields like so much cordwood.
Beach Party
The moment at which the Anti-Anti-Utopian Generation grows up.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Pure Hitchcock: tragic and comic at precisely the same instant.
Les Valseuses
Half-wild denizens of “la zone” on the outskirts of a large town.
Is This Heaven?
“I lend myself to the social game, I pose, I know I am posing, I want you to know that I am posing.”
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Sexy, thrilling, and — thanks to the sandwiches — very British indeed.
Creolised Fashion
Brands borrowing from jostled signs, creolised into incomprehension.