“Prisoner’s Cinema”

Authors

poetry, vision, darkness, perception

In this short poem, the speaker watches the shifting darkness, color, and light seen behind closed eyes.

Gary D. Rhodes, University of Central Florida

Gary D. Rhodes currently serves as Associate Professor of Film and Mass Media at the University of Central Florida, Orlando. He is the author of Emerald Illusions: The Irish in Early American Cinema (IAP, 2012), The Perils of Moviegoing in America (Bloomsbury, 2012), and The Birth of the American Horror Film (Edinburgh UP, 2018), as well as the editor of such anthologies as Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row (Lexington, 2008), The Films of Joseph H. Lewis (Wayne State University, 2012), and The Films of Budd Boetticher (Edinburgh UP, 2017). Rhodes is also the writer-director of such documentary films as Lugosi: Hollywood’s Dracula (1997) and Banned in Oklahoma (2004). Forthcoming from Edinburgh UP is Consuming Images: Film Art and the American Television Commercial, coauthored with Robert Singer.