Panning for Gold: Will Sloan on ED WOOD
Posted by Screen Slate on October 9, 2025
Posted by Screen Slate on October 9, 2025
"...there hasn’t been a single expansive, but easily digestible critical study of Wood that takes all of the disparate strands of his life and career—no matter how disreputable—into account until the recent publication of writer, podcaster, and programmer Will Sloan’s monograph, Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA. Beyond offering a persuasive argument for Wood as an important—if, and this is a big if, accidental—figure in American cinema history, the book is a hugely enjoyable tour through the trajectory of exploitation and adult cinema during the middle of the 20th century, as the roadshow circuit gave way to sexploitation and eventually hardcore."