New Plaza Cinema Lecture: Movie Monsters with Max Alvarez. New Lecture!
Join New Plaza Cinema Lecture Series with Max Alvarez - Movie Monsters: Exploring the Art Behind Classic Creature Features! New Lecture!
Movie Monsters: Exploring the Art Behind Classic Creature Features
They go by such names as Godzilla, Mothra, Gigantis, Alien, Predator, The Thing, or simply (in the case of Dr. Frankenstein’s creation) ‘The Monster’. They live under the ocean floor, in outer space, in caves, on islands, and in laboratories of disturbed scientists. Depending upon the budget and skills of moviemakers (or the resources of such monster-friendly studios as Universal and Toho), these creatures are either terrifying or tacky. In fact, any fright film lover knows all too well that a movie monster can make or break a horror picture.
This Halloween, join film historian Max Alvarez for an online journey through the weird, blood-curdling, and often downright outrageous, netherworld of pre-computer-generated movie monsters.
Join New Plaza Cinema Lecture Series with Max Alvarez - Movie Monsters: Exploring the Art Behind Classic Creature Features! New Lecture!
Movie Monsters: Exploring the Art Behind Classic Creature Features
They go by such names as Godzilla, Mothra, Gigantis, Alien, Predator, The Thing, or simply (in the case of Dr. Frankenstein’s creation) ‘The Monster’. They live under the ocean floor, in outer space, in caves, on islands, and in laboratories of disturbed scientists. Depending upon the budget and skills of moviemakers (or the resources of such monster-friendly studios as Universal and Toho), these creatures are either terrifying or tacky. In fact, any fright film lover knows all too well that a movie monster can make or break a horror picture.
This Halloween, join film historian Max Alvarez for an online journey through the weird, blood-curdling, and often downright outrageous, netherworld of pre-computer-generated movie monsters.
Author, film historian, and public speaker Max Alvarez is a former visiting scholar and guest lecturer for The Smithsonian Institution and previously film curator at National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. His partnerships have included University of California, Los Angeles and Berkeley; Museum of the Moving Image, New Plaza Cinema, Library of Congress, and the National Gallery of Art in D.C.
Alvarez’s lecture topics range from the Cold War and political blacklisting to depictions of elections and the US presidency in Hollywood movies, immigration on film, China during the 20th Century, European women artists, censorship history, 20th century Jewish culture, and the British and American theater. Author of The Crime Films of Anthony Mann (University Press of Mississippi) and a major contributor to Thornton Wilder/New Perspectives (Northwestern University Press), his latest book is The Cinéphile’s Guide to the Great Age of Cinema (released June 2020). www.maxjalvarez.com
Website: www.maxjalvarez.com