Sean Patrick Donlan, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

a Sean Patrick Donlan, Author at Bright Lights Film Journal

Author: Sean Patrick Donlan

Seán Patrick Donlan is a law professor, now in Canada. In addition to film, especially Irish cinema, he’s written on comparative law and legal history, Edmund Burke and Irish history, and on American and Irish politics.

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The Men We Admire: Hud (1963) on Criterion

November 4, 2026

Hud isn’t an elegy of the West or revisionist subversion of frontier mythology. The film’s more Wendell Berry than Zane Grey. Homer’s attachment to the land is a communitarian, agrarian[…]

Author: Sean Patrick Donlan

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