Joan McGettigan is associate professor of film-TV-digital media at Texas Christian University. Her work has appeared in Journal of Film and Video, Journal of American Culture, and Poetic Visions of America: The Cinema of Terrence Malick. “When I told my students I have a harder time than that shrugging off Hollywood’s misguided adaptations and revisions, one said, ‘Why? Whenever you want to, you can still go back and read the book.'”
“Standing in line ahead of someone was enough to start such a friendship.”
“Dillinger had recently undergone plastic surgery to alter his face and to try to remove his fingerprints. But Public Enemies does not dare to depict that kind of desperation and that determination to survive under any circumstances.”
