Motography

Authors

cinema, film spectatorship, time, moviegoing, perception

A moviegoer in a darkened theater feels time dissolve as the flickering images pull him between here and there until his eyes burn.

Gary D. Rhodes, Queen’s University Belfast

Gary D. Rhodes currently serves as Postgraduate Director for Film Studies at The Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is the author of 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 Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row (Lexington, 2008) and The Films of Joseph H. Lewis (Wayne State University, 2012). Rhodes is also the writer-director of such documentary films as Lugosi: Hollywood’s Dracula (1997) and Banned in Oklahoma (2004). Currently he is at work on a history of the American horror film to 1915 and a biography of William Fox.