Benjamin Franz

Benjamin Franz is a research librarian and film scholar with the University of Houston Clear Lake. He greatly enjoys the strange, deranged, and depraved in Cinema. Also the screwball; can't forget screwball. Comedy is life.

It has been understood by America the culture of Hollywood embodies the...

A follow-up to the 2021 short Redsin, Redsin: Martyrs of Dissent is Christopher...

Perennial Light is a wonder of silent film, a lyrical tone poem that only the...