“Abel Raises Cain,” review by Maitland McDonagh

October 22, 2007 Maitland McDonagh

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Jenny Abel and Jeff Hockett’s documentary about her father, professional hoaxer Alan Abel, is rich with clips of Abel’s various media pranks, but falls short as either serious biography or rigorous examination of the function of philosophically driven media hoaxing. Read more

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Maitland McDonagh

Formerly TVGuide.com's senior movies editor/reviewer, Maitland McDonagh now has her own site, Miss FlickChick.com, and freelances for Film Comment, Time Out NY and other publications. She has written four books -- Broken Mirrors Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento, Filmmaking on the Fringe, The 50 Most Erotic Films of All Time and Movie Lust -- and contributed to many others, including Film Out of Bounds, Fantasy Females, The Last Great American Picture Show and Exile Cinema. Read McDonagh's recent artilces below. For her Women On Film archive, type "Maitland McDonagh" into the Search Box (upper right corner of screen).