Fonda on Film: The Political Movies of Jane Fonda

Author: Nelson Pressley
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 03/10/2026
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.99w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9781556522574


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2026
Publishers Weekly 01/26/2026
Library Journal 02/01/2026 pg. 60
Booklist 02/01/2026

About the Author
Nelson Pressley was a Washington Post theater critic/arts journalist for twenty years, writing reviews, features and profiles, interviewing Tony, Emmy, Oscar and Pulitzer winners, editing in the Weekend section, publishing a weekly theater review newsletter, hosting some of the paper's first Facebook Live projects (including interviewing Kathleen Turner), and creating other video content. His work has appeared in American Theatre, The Sondheim Review, and elsewhere, and for several years he was a panelist on WETA-TV's Around Town. He is the author of the 2014 book American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice, and he wrote the David Mamet chapter for the 1980s book in Methuen's Decades of American Drama series (2018). His website, A Parallax View, is a notebook on hundreds more movies from 1960 to 1981. He lives in Delaware.