Ben Dickenson, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

a Ben Dickenson, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

Author: Ben Dickenson

Ben Dickenson is a writer living in the UK. He writes film crticism, journalism, and analysis with a special interest in the realtionships between politics, film, and economics. He has a master's degree in film from University of Westminster. Ben's first book, The Youth of Today Have Something to Say, received national acclaim in the youth policy field, and his play Eclipse won awards at Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He is also the author of A New Radicalism: Economics, Politics, and Meaning in '90s Hollywood.

Activist & Political · Actors & Personalities · Essays

The Trouble with the Governator: Being Arnold

October 31, 2003

The ascension of Arnold salvation, apocalypse, or trigger for a resurgent left?

Festivals & Awards

Tongues Untied: Art, Politics, and Business Collide at Oscar’s 75th

April 30, 2003

It’s contagious even Oscar dissented.

Activist & Political · Essays

Goodbye Warren, Hello Tim: How Clinton Demobilized Liberalism and Anti-Capitalism Came into Hollywood

November 1, 2002

Hollywood shows some unsuspected radical tendencies – after eight years of Clintonian “liberalism” “Hollywood is at its best when it is relating to a progressive left political force that’s already[…]

Author: Ben Dickenson

The Trouble with the Governator: Being Arnold

Tongues Untied: Art, Politics, and Business Collide at Oscar’s 75th

More

Goodbye Warren, Hello Tim: How Clinton Demobilized Liberalism and Anti-Capitalism Came into Hollywood

Links + BSA