Brooks E. Hefner

About The Author

Brooks E. Hefner is a professor of English at James Madison University, where he teaches American genre fiction, film history, and popular film genres. He is the author of Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow and The Word on the Streets: The American Language of Vernacular Modernism. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Books by Brooks E. Hefner

Johnny Guitar
By Brooks E. Hefner
The first book on the groundbreaking 1954 Western by director Nicholas Ray, controversial in its time, now celebrated as a groundbreaking example of high camp, LGBTQ themes, and the outer limits of the Hollywood system.
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