I think I may be the first film critic to have his book adapted to film. Many film critics and film teachers have written excellent books of film history, and even novels and screenplays, but I don’t think they have experienced the agony and ecstasy of having a film version made of one of their books. If any of our readers can think of any other instance I’d like to hear about it. During the entire research and writing of the biography of Damien Parer, which has now been adapted to film almost thirty years later, I was teaching Film…
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