Under Hell

Authors

poetry, hell, damnation, the soul, cold

In this brief poem, a soul is pictured not abandoned but cast into an abyss of bitter wind, where there are no blankets.

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.