Jim Morton

Jim Morton has written extensively on the subject of forgotten or unusual films. His work in "Re/Search #10: Incredibly Strange Films" helped redefine film criticism and its concepts of good and bad cinema. He has contributed essays to several other film books, including "Lost Highways" (Jack Sargeant and Stephanie Watson), "Sex and Zen and a Bullet in the Head" (Stefan Hammond and Mike Wilkins), and "Land of a Thousand Balconies" (Jack Stevenson). He has also written many essays on popular culture. He was the editor-in-chief of "Pop Void"—a journal devoted to things in our culture that are either overlooked or forgotten. He co-wrote "What a Character!: 20th Century American Advertising Icons," which was assigned reading by at least one college professor in a class on advertising. More recently, he published a translation of Frank Wedekind’s “Mine Ha-ha” and a novelization of the movie “Creature with the Atom Brain.” In 2020, he published “Movies Behind the Wall: The Story of East German Films and the Rise and Fall of the GDR”—a history of East Germany’s DEFA film company and the movies they made.