Pandora's Box book by Pamela Hutchinson out today in USA

Pamela Hutchinson's new book on the 1929 Louise Brooks film, Pandora's Box (BFI Film Classics) releases today in the USA.

According to the publisher: "Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora’s Box, 1929), starring Hollywood icon Louise Brooks, is an established classic of the silent era.

Pamela Hutchinson revisits and challenges many assumptions made about the film, its lead character and its star. Putting the film in historical and contemporary contexts, Hutchinson investigates how the film speaks to new audiences."

To learn more about this book and its author, check out my interview with Pamela Hutchinson on PopMatters, "The BFI Re-Opens Silent Film Pandora's Box."



Or, give a listen to this podcast interview with Pamela by Jose Arroyo.

"A conversation with Pamela Hutchinson on her great new book, as witty as it is informative, Pandora's Box, a BFI film classic. What you hear in the background is the bubbles in a glass of champagne and one can only hope that our chat is as fizzy. The conversation ranges from the film's aesthetic achievements to its continued influence, the appeal of Louise Brooks, what Marlene Dietrich might have done with the part and what the film has to tell us on sexual desire, the options open to women and the prevalence of rape culture then and now. Pandora's Box seems more pertinent than ever and just as powerful and beautiful as it always was. Pamela Hutchinson's book is not just a beautifully written introduction to the film but one which provides new information and enhances our understanding in various ways but does so with great charm and wit."