Reinventing a New Wheel: The Films of Norman Mailer

Authors

experimental filmmaking, mockumentary and direct cinema, film history and theory, Maidstone, Wild 90, Beyond the Law, self-adaptation and authorship

A film historian analyzes the quality of Mailer’s cinematic contributions in his four films.

Gary D. Rhodes, The Queen's University of Belfast

Gary D. Rhodes currently serves as Co-Director of Film Studies at The Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is the author of such books as Lugosi (McFarland, 1997), White Zombie: Anatomy of a Horror Film (McFarland, 2002), and The Perils of Moviegoing in America (Continuum, 2012), as well as the editor of such anthologies as Horror at the Drive-In (McFarland, 2001), Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row (Lexington, 2008). Rhodes is also the writer-director of such documentary films as Lugosi: Hollywood’s Dracula (1997), Chair (2000), and Banned in Oklahoma (2004). Currently he is at work on a history of the American horror film to 1915.