By Laura Horak, author of Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and WorldsSince the rise of the concept of “transgender” in the 1990s, many activists, filmmakers and scholars have worked to make trans people more visible. Those efforts have made a real impact — increasing trans visibility ha...
For me, Anderson is a filmmaker who read a book about state terror and counterfascist mobilization and metabolized Pynchon’s "Vineland" into the unlikeliest of things: a movie, a mass-cultural product that wants to think clearly and hard about the here-and-now-ness of an American fascism.
Author Hanna Garth set out to document a radical, grassroots movement of residents fighting for food justice — but encountered a very different reality.