Michael Atkinson’s latest books include a debut novel, Hemingway Deadlights, coming out in August; Flickipedia, cowritten with Laurel Shifrin; and Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood.

• March/April 2009: Polish Movie Posters: One of the Great Secrets of Twentieth-Century Pop Art
• March/April 2009: Schema: Twentieth-Century Polish Film Posters
• March/April 2008: Anna Karina and the American Night
  Establishing shots, slow dissolves, and other small particulars may be what we remember—and love—most about the movies.
• December 2005/January 2006: Face/Off
• November 2005: Schema: Thumbnails of Other People’s Bookmarks
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  November 2005: Other People’s Bookmarks: Fellow Wanderers of a Forgotten Republic
  Found between the pages of used books, the faded receipts, photographs, ticket stubs, and fox pelts reveal the intersection of life and literature.
• December 2003/January 2004: Hyperauthor! Hyperauthor!
  An investigation of one fake Japanese poet and the protracted devolution of the literary hoax.
• July 2003: To Saragossa and Part Way Back: A Polish Ghost Story
  Globetrotting socialite count Jan Potocki may have written an endless book. Now, thanks to Jerry Garcia, you can see the movie.
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  May 2003: O Biblioklepts!
  A book thief is buried under the swell of his own selfish booty.