Jump Cut: Hollywood, Politics and Counter Cinema

Toby Rupert was a librarian living in Toronto.

All of these essays, except for the introductions by the editor, were previously published in Jump Cut magazine, a film magazine from Chicago that began in 1974. It soon became one of the leading magazines dealing with social problems in motion pictures and the subculture that developed around Hollywood. This book is in five sections, with about five essays in each. Larger topics include radical Third World filmmakers, the women’s movement and its counter-cinema, gay cinema, the independent left and its filmmakers, and critiques of Hollywood values. At the end there is a useful bibliography and a film list, both of which concentrate on social and political criticism. A good reader for all media studies and film studies programs.