Author Spotlight

Shonni Enelow

Shonni Enelow is the author of Joanna Hogg (Contemporary Film Directors series, University of Illinois Press, 2024) and Method Acting and Its Discontents (Northwestern, 2015) and the coauthor of A Discourse on Method (53rd State, 2020). Her film writing has appeared in Reverse Shot, Film Comment, and MUBI Notebook, among other venues. She is a professor of English at Fordham University.

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Chilly Scenes of Winter: Nowhere Fast

Described by director Joan Micklin Silver as “a kind of weird romantic comedy,” this defiantly ambiguous exploration of amour fou presents its obsessive antihero in all his contradictions.

By Shonni Enelow

Essays— Mar 28, 2023
When Actors Do Double Duty

From Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers to Kazuo Hasegawa in An Actor’s Revenge, performers who multitask as several characters in a single film tap into the essential uncanniness of cinema itself.

By Shonni Enelow

Features— Aug 13, 2018

Performances

Fallen Child: Amy Wright in Wise Blood

The great character actress delivers a lusty, unbridled performance as a preacher’s daughter in this late-career gem from John Huston.

By Shonni Enelow

Features— Jul 4, 2017

Performances

Driven: Lindsay Crouse in House of Games

Film scholar Shonni Enelow reveals the methods of the Mamet style of acting in this examination of Crouse’s subtly feminist lead performance.

By Shonni Enelow

Features— Jan 31, 2017