ANN ARBOR—The fall issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review (MQR), published by the University of Michigan, is now available, featuring a cinematic theme.

U-M alumnus and prominent screen-writer Lawrence Kasdan is featured with his 1999 Hopwood lecture, “POV,” and discusses movies and the nature of screen writing.

Cinema is also the focus of an essay by Rudolf Arnheim, professor emeritus of history of art at U-M, and of psychology of art at Harvard University. Arnheim’s essay, “The History of an Idea,” explores the merging of visual imagery and sound in the art of film, and is followed by “Rediscovering Orson Wells” by Catherine Benamou, U-M assistant professor of film and video.

Anne Stevenson, a U-M alumna, contributes her poem “Invocation and Interruption,” in memory of poet Ted Hughes.

Finally, MQR features works of fiction by renowned authors Tennessee Williams and Joyce Carol Oates.

MQR is published quarterly; yearly subscriptions can be purchased for $18, and single copies are available for $5. Contact MQR at Room 3032, Rackham Building, for more details.

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