Film and the Anarchist Imagination

Despite the persistent and often non-violent engagement of anarchists in the social history of the twentieth century, the image of the black-clad anarchist with bomb in hand still lurks in the public imagination. Porton considers Joel Sucher and Steven Fischler's Anarchism in America (1981) to be a failure, rooted in a conservative documentary style and a reticence in dealing with the full gamut of anarchist activities in American history.