Table of Contents

Slow Writing: Thom Andersen on Cinema
Edited by Mark Webber
The Visible Press, September 2017

Introduction
Why I Did Not Become a Film Critic, 2017

Essays
Sex in Limbo, 1966 (on exploitation films)
Camp, Andy Warhol, 1966
Two Films by Andrew Meyer, 1966
Eadweard Muybridge, 1966
De Mille’s Ded Zeppelin, 1978 (on Madam Satan)
What is Wrong with this Picture? Almost Everything, 1978 (on The Desert People)
JB, 1978 (on James Benning)
Twelve Films by Five American Filmmakers, 1979 (on Conner, Sharits, Gehr,
   Brakhage & Fisher)
From the Cloud to the Resistance (Dalla Nube alla Resistenza) by Jean-Marie
   Straub & Danièle Huillet, from two texts by Cesare Pavese, 1981
Reagan at the Movies, 1986 (on Ronald Reagan)
“The Time of the Toad”, 1992 (on the Hollywood Blacklist)
The Misogyny Game, 1993 (on The Crying Game)
Looking Over an Underground, 1994 (on the Los Angeles underground)
The Whole Equation, 2005 (on David Thomson’s The Whole Equation)
The Political Documentary in America Today, 2005
The Sixties Without Compromise: Watching Warhol’s Films, 2005
Painting in the Shadows, 2007 (on Pedro Costa)
Passing Through Twilight, 2007 (on Night on Earth)
Los Angeles: A City on Film, 2008
This Property is Condemned, 2008 (on The Exiles)
Pebbles Left on the Beach: The Films of Morgan Fisher, 2009
Against the Grain, 2009 (on Lorna’s Silence)
A Band of Outsiders, 2010 (on In Vanda’s Room)
Happy Daze, 2010 (on Dusty and Sweets McGee)
The Decade in Review: Sketches of History 2000-2009, 2010
Unchained Melodies: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector and
   It Felt Like a Kiss, 2010
Get Out of the Car: A Commentary, 2011
Random Notes on a Projection of The Clock by Christian Marclay
   at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 4:32 p.m., July 28, 2011
   – 5:02 p.m., July 29, 2011, 2011
Barbarians at the Gate, 2012 (on Los Angeles film culture)
Yasujirō Ozu: The Master of Time, 2012
Too Late to Stop Now, 2013 (on Jean-Marie Straub)
Fire in Every Shot: Wang Bing’s Three Sisters, 2013
The Allure of Failure, 2014 (on Francesco Vezzoli)
500 Words (as told to Travis Diehl), 2016

Images
16 pages of colour and black & white images including film stills and photographs

Thom Andersen Filmography

Thom Andersen Bibliography