Essays by William E. Jones

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

A TABLE OF CONTENTS




This blog is a collection of my writings.

The pieces appear in their original versions, sometimes different from those in print. I use a blog, rather than my website, which relates to my activities as an artist and filmmaker, for their on-line publication. I have also published a number of books.





Angels of Light

a very short tribute to bearded drag queens


Berlin 1961

The United States films the building of the Berlin Wall, and other things as well.


Bike Boy

an attempt to grapple with one of Andy Warhol’s great, neglected “sexploitation” films


A Capitalist Hallucination

a visit to Enterprise Square USA in Edmond, Oklahoma


Fred Halsted: The Butt Interview

a word collage drawn from the published utterances of the great gay auteur


Government Issue

how a young girl from Steubenville, Ohio changed adult movies forever


Heliogabalus

“a farrago of cheap pornography”


Life in Film: Oscar Micheaux

a tribute to America’s greatest filmmaker


Morgan Fisher: An Impersonal Autobiography

What interests me in his work is exactly what he most wishes to suppress.


Nowhere to Hide

taking a stab at architectural criticism


Odires Mlászho

a too-brief mention of a fascinating artist almost unknown in the Northern Hemisphere


Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before

my essay on contemporary fans of The Smiths and Morrissey


Swallow

an essay on the films of Curt McDowell, and incidentally, what’s wrong with filmmaking today


We Are Not Amused

wish fulfillment: Curt McDowell’s painting of dead Beatles


A Witch Hunt at Amateur Hour

one of law enforcement’s follies, exhumed from the archives and examined




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