J. D. Connor is an associate professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Hollywood Math and Aftermath: The Economic Image and the Digital Recession (2018) and The Studios After the Studios (2015).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Put Some “Mank” on It
J. D. Connor explains what “Citizen Kane” would look like if it had only industry politics and no real ones: it’d be “Mank.”...
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What sort of model — for narrative, for business — does the Marvel Cinematic Universe offer?...
Finish Him
“[The Other Side of the Wind] is the movie Welles would have made had he been the digital filmmaker he was not.” J. D. Connor on Welles's final film....
Rebel Yale: Reading and Feeling “Hillbilly Elegy”
It is his refusal to speak directly about “issues” that makes J. D. Vance the new pundit for white people....
Variety Show
Does "Twin Peaks: The Return" matter?...
The Warrior Class
J. D. Connor on "War Machine" and the cult of the warrior-scholar....
FILM NOW: A Roundtable on the Films of 2016
Moderated by LARB film editor Anna Shechtman, the discussion brought together voices from film studies, film criticism, and Hollywood film production....
Making Things Right: “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens”
Criticisms — or defenses — of Star Wars's narrative retreading are misguided....
Freaks of the Industry: “Dope”
"Dope" was a Sundance crowd pleaser and the object of a bidding war....
