Kirk Ellis

About The Author

Kirk Ellis is the multiple Emmy-winning screenwriter of HBO’s John Adams, the Apple TV+ limited series Franklin, and other works of historical drama, including Anne Frank: The Whole Story and Into the West. He is the author, most recently, of Ride Lonesome, one of the inaugural volumes in UNM Press’s Reel West series.

Books by Kirk Ellis

They Kill People

Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution, and America's Obsession with Guns and Outlaws

By Kirk Ellis
"Prodigiously researched, the work is a compelling braid of its subtitles. Cineastes will savor the detailed descriptions of the genesis and filming of the famous movie; historians, the backstory of America's romance with guns and violence; and Hollywood history buffs, the ways in which Bonnie...
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Ride Lonesome
By Kirk Ellis
Ride Lonesome, the fifth film in the Ranown cycle, is both the best and most representative of the whole series, which has been called the most remarkable convergence of artistic achievement in the history of low-budget moviemaking. Director Bud Boetticher captures the alienation and loneliness o...
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