Introduction: Some Noises from an Unquiet American

This is my Introduction to The Unquiet American: Transgressive Comedies from the U.S., a catalogue/ collection put together to accompany a film series at the Austrian Filmmuseum and the Viennale in Autumn 2009. — J.R.


I cannot tell a lie: the initial concept and impulse
behind this retrospective weren’t my own. More
precisely, they grew out of a [...]