Awards

• Winner of Buffalo International Film Festival Jury Award - best narrative feature 2022
• Winner of Festival of Cinema NYC Jury Award - best ensemble cast 2022
• Winner of Gasparilla International Film Festival Jury Award - best performance 2022
• Winner of Gasparilla International Film Festival Jury Award - best performance 2022
• Winner of Midwest Film Festival - best actor category 2022

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'Michael Glover Smith’s Bob Dylan as Filmmaker is the most compelling reconsideration of Bob Dylan’s work as a filmmaker written to date. Building on previous analyses of Dylan’s films, Smith combines his own experiences as a filmmaker with his extensive research and deft analysis of Dylan’s films to prove how Dylan’s process is similar regardless of the genre he creates in – grounded in tradition, innovative, and true to his artistic vision. In this way, Smith successfully challenges the paradigm that Dylan failed as a filmmaker by methodically chronicling the films that influenced Dylan and how those films shaped the movies Dylan made. Smith’s approach positions Dylan as an artist working in the medium of film rather than, as he has been previously understood, a musician making movies. Bob Dylan as Filmmaker: No Time to Think advances the conversation of Dylan as an holistic artist and is an essential addition to anyone’s Dylan library.'  Erin C. Callahan, author of The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan's Live Performances ‘Despite the vast literature on Bob Dylan, his work as a filmmaker remains critically underexplored. Michael Glover Smith, himself an innovative and thought-provoking filmmaker, remedies this gap with a perceptive and rigorously informed study of Dylan’s cinematic output…Insightful, unique, and long overdue, this book is an essential addition to Dylan studies.’ Andrew Muir, author of The True Performing of It: Bob Dylan and William Shakespeare ‘This is an excellent read that shines a light on an underappreciated aspect of Bob Dylan’s creativity, which reflectively also illuminates the rest of his work.’ Laura Tenschert, host of the Definitely Dylan podcast  ‘I didn’t ask to be dubbed the ‘Dean of Dylanologists’—it was the unintended byproduct of my deep, intense study of the work of Bob Dylan. I’ve long told anyone who will listen that Dylan’s films and interest in film are essential to gaining a better understanding of his art. In an era of performative hot takes, I recognize a kindred spirit in Michael Glover Smith. Bob Dylan as Filmmaker reflects that rare combination of the director’s eye and the curator’s exactitude (the appendices are stupendous). Bob Dylan is already studied like Shakespeare and Smith’s book is a foundational text on Dylan and cinema.’ Scott Warmuth, writer and disc jockey ‘I can't wait for everyone else to read this brilliant, insightful, engaging, and fascinating book.’ Matthew Ingate, author of Together Through Life: My Never Ending Tour with Bob Dylan

Author Information

Michael Glover Smith is a Chicago-based filmmaker, author and teacher. Michael's most recent movie, Hekla, starring Elizabeth Stam, will have it's festival premiere in early 2026. Michael is also the director of four award-winning feature films, the most recent of which, Relative, stars Wendy Robie (Twin Peaks) and is distributed by Music Box Films. It was the 23rd highest-grossing movie in the U.S. in its first week of release in 2022. His previous book, Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry (co-written with Adam Selzer), was published by Columbia University Press to acclaim in 2015. He has seen Bob Dylan 100 times in concert.

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