1. Introduction ‘History returns forever – as film,’ voiced Anton Kaes.[1] However, film in turn returns as history. Cinema is a culture we can refer to and use to encode…
Michael Ingham, Johnnie To Kei-fung’s PTU. Hong University Press, Hong Kong, 2009 ISBN: 978-962-209-919-7 HKD135.00 (pb) 149pp (Review copy supplied by Hong Kong University Press hkupress@hkucc.hku.hk) It has become something…
Joe McElhaney (ed.), Vincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment. Detroit: Wayne State University, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8143-3307-5 US$29.95 (pb) 472pp (Review copy supplied by Wayne State University Press http://wsupress.wayne.edu/) For a…
“Those Who Wait” is the title of an essay, first published in 1922, by Siegfried Kracauer.[1] In this essay, Kracauer employs the image of waiting to describe a mass of…
Catherine Russell, The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8223-4312-7 US$47.95 (pb) 465pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press)…
Every voyage can be said to involve a re-siting of boundaries … an undetermined journeying practice, having constantly to negotiate between home and abroad, native culture and adopted culture, or…
I have essentially set myself two tasks in this paper. Firstly, to look at Thomas Elsaesser’s (2000) notion of the ‘historical imaginary’, particularly drawing on those aspects of it which…
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” - from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) In a prescient 1993 essay, Greg Solman warily explores the growing trend of “director’s cuts”…
One significant aspect of the work currently being done on the history of film exhibition and audiences in the United States stresses the importance of rural cinemas and itinerant showmen…
Palimpsests of time and space: palpable space Sometimes the very best essays are the ones that reveal their flaws with the greatest clarity. Cynthia Contreras’ analysis of Kobayashi Masaki’s film, Harakiri (Japan,…
So instead of looking through the window at history we’re actually going to climb through that window to the other side and feel it. (Janice Feyen, Pioneer House) The historical re-enactment…
Abstract In the critical discourse surrounding filmic adaptations of literary works, the concept of “fidelity” frequently rears its ugly head - the idea that a film’s literary source material is…
1. Les Glaneurs est la glaneuse (1999) Agnès Varda has been linked to the work and the ideas of the French Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol) having to do…
After rating little more than a curt mention in Australian cinema histories for several decades, Giorgio Mangiamele’s status as a pioneer of the Australian cinema has more recently come to…
When Giorgio Moroder offered the world his music-enhanced version of Metropolis (Germany, 1926) in 1984, the publicity materials contained, as if in justification, this remark by the film’s director, Fritz Lang: “I…
Every piece of film that you put in a picture should have a purpose. You cannot put it together indiscriminately. It’s like notes of music. They must make their point.…
Hello Ina Just reading your webpage on the history of Drive-ins in WA. http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/19/drive-ins-WA.html Excellent work, I must say. Just one thing though. In the second last paragraph under the…
Note: here is the fourth instalment of what has already turned out to be a long review. It is late and longer than ever. In this section the last of…
Mark James Russell, Pop Goes Korea: Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music, and Internet Culture. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2008 ISBN: 978 1 933330 68 6 US$19.95 (pb) 224pp (Review…
Ford At Fox Part Two (a) A Brief(er) Introduction Born Reckless (1930) - Addendum: Cast and Character Issues Up The River (1930) What would you think of an architect who arrived at…
Lisa French and Mark Poole, Shining a Light: 50 Years of the Australian Film Institute. The Moving Image, no.9, ATOM 2009 AU$39.95 252pp Dr George Miller, doyen of the Australian…
Paul Meehan, Tech-Noir: The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2008 ISBN: 978 0 7864 3325 4 US$55.00 (hb) 272pp (Review copy supplied by…
Kenneth E. Hall, John Woo’s The Killer. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-962-209-956-2 HKD135.00 (pb) 125pp (Review copy supplied by Hong Kong University Press) Fifteen books in Hong…
Lisa Downing and Sue Harris, eds., From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom of Catherine Deneuve. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-7190-7338-0 Au$152.00 (hb) 188pp (Review copy…
Yvette Biro, Turbulence and Flow in Film: The Rhythmic Design (Translated by Paul Salamon). Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21965-7 US$22.95 (pb) 269pp (Review copy supplied by Indiana…
Geneviève Sellier, Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema (trans Kristin Ross). Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0822341925 US$22.95 (pb) 280pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Anyone…
Robert Burgoyne, The Hollywood Historical Film. Malden MA, Blackwell Publishing, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1405146036 US$31.95 (pb) 192pp (Review copy supplied by Blackwell Publishing) The task of encompassing historical cinema into a…
Michel Pastoureau, Black: The History of a Colour (trans Jody Gladding). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-691-13930-2 US$35.00 (hb) 216pp (Review copy supplied by Princeton University Press) Every colour has…
Janet Harbord, Chris Marker: La Jetée. Afterall Books, London, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-84638-048-8 UK£9.95 (pb) 112pp (Review copy supplied by Afterall Books) Janet Harbord’s elegantly written and structured monograph Chris Marker: La Jetée is…
James Herrick, Scientific Mythologies: How Science and Science Fiction Forge New Religious Beliefs. InterVarsityPress Academic, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0830825882 US$23.00 (pb) 288pp (Review copy supplied by IVP Academic) It was perhaps…
Stephen Chibnall and Brian McFarlane, The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-84457-319-6 US$30.00 (pb) 256pp (Review copy supplied by BFI/Palgrave Macmillan) Let me say right off that…
Elizabeth Legge, Wavelength. London: Afterall Books, 2009 ISBN-10: 1-846380-56-1 US$16.00 (pb) 112pp (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) Michael Snow’s Wavelength (US 1966) is a groundbreaking film in every sense of the…
Adrian Martin, “What is Modern Cinema?”. Santiago: Uqbar, 2008 ISBN: 9 78999568 601256 $18900 Chile Pesos (pb) 278pp This book Que es el cine moderno?, I see it as a kind…
Lucas Hilderbrand, Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978 0 8223 4376 9 US$24.95 (pb) 320pp (Review copy supplied by Duke…
Alison Griffiths, Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-231-12988-6 US$45.00 (hb) 392pp (Review copy supplied by Columbia University Press)…
Harriet Margolis, Sean Cubitt, Barry King and Thierry Jutel, Studying the Event Film: The Lord of the Rings. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-07190-7198-0 UK£55 (hb)…
Louis Kaplan, The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008 ISBN: 978 0 8166 5156 6 US$24.95 (pb) 264pp (Review copy supplied by University…
Karla Oeler, A Grammar of Murder: Violent Scenes and Film Form. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-226-61795-5 US$30.00 (pb) 304pp (Review copy supplied by University of Chicago Press…
Joram ten Brink (ed), Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch (Preface by Michael Renov). London: Wallflower Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-1-905674-47-3 US$29.50 (pb) 324pp (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press) The…
Joan Simon (ed.), Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-300-15250-0 US$40.00 (hb) 148pp…
Richard Allen, Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-231-13575-7 US$24.50 (pb) 295pp (Review copy supplied by Footprint Books) Looking over the history of film theory and…
Tom McSorley, Atom Egoyan’s The Adjuster. University of Toronto Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4426-1048-4 US$16.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of Toronto Press) To his credit, Atom Egoyan has achieved some…
Joanna Bourke, Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present. Virago Press, 2007 ISBN-13: 978 184408154 7 UK£12.99 (pb) 576pp In the introduction to her exhaustive Rape: A History from 1860…
Rick Altman, A Theory of Narrative. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-231-14429-2 US$27.50 (pb) 392pp (Review copy supplied by Columbia University Press) It’s nothing new to say that…
Screening the Past began ten years ago and this issue celebrates that decade of publishing. In the first 21 issues we ran: 153 First Run articles; 15 Classics and Re-Runs articles;…
Jennifer Fay, Theatres of Occupation. Hollywood and the Reeducation of Postwar Germany. London / Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4744-6 US$22.50 (pb) 228pp (Review copy supplied by…
This issue of Screening the Past is a particularly rich one, requiring two editorials. Editorial (1) In "Reruns", we reproduce the English language sections of a booklet issued by the Pusan Film…
Dianne F. Sadoff, Victorian Vogue: British Novels on the Screen. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis & London, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8166-6092-6 US$25.00 (pb) 329pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota…
Once upon a time, an Australian academic life consisted of three elements: a contribution to the subject which the academic taught and researched, a contribution to the administration of the…
Stephen J. Nichols, Jesus: Made in America. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8308-2849-4 US$20.00 (pb) 237pp (Review copy supplied by InterVarsity Press) From the rise of the Christian…
Jason Wood, Talking Movies: Contemporary World Filmmakers in Interview. London and New York: Wallflower Press, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-1904764908 US$25.00 (pb) 224pp (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press) Like other interview-based…
The pun of our journal's name should not be ignored in the context of remembering what we hoped for it ten years ago and what it may actually have accomplished.…
Linda Williams, Screening Sex. A John Hope Franklin Book, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8223-4285-4 US$25.00 (pb) 412pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Linda Williams…
Marguerite H. Rippy, Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2009 US$35.00 (pb) 223pp (Review copy supplied by Southern Illinois University Press) Marguerite…
In August 1999 I presented a paper at the Infog 99 conference in Melbourne, which was based on our experience to that point in time, of publishing Screening the Past. The…
Gerd Gemünden, A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder’s American Films. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008 ISBN: 978-1-84545-419-7 US$27.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Berghahn Books) When asked about the meaning of…
Ten years of Screening the Past is reason for congratulation and celebration! But it also merits some reflection. The news that the journal has been going for a decade has come as…
Abstract This article is a reconsideration of The Virgin Spring that focuses upon the rape at the centre of the film’s action, despite the film’s surface attempts to marginalise all but its…
[1] Out of the blue, a little over ten years ago, Melvyn Stokes telephoned me. He was beginning his annual task of organising the Commonwealth Fund conference on American history…
Abstract The death of Jean Harlow during the filming of Saratoga (USA 1937) created problems for the film’s completion and promotion. Famously, M-G-M completed Harlow’s remaining scenes using shots of a body…
Numerous disciplines have, over the years, adopted, adapted, and incorporated film studies into their curricula. Introducing film studies into the curriculum is an effective way of retaining viable student numbers…
Marius Sestier holding a stereo viewer. Postcard. Marius Sestier Collection. National Film and Sound Archive. Courtesy Mme Petitbois and Messrs Sestier and Jeune. Patineur Grotesque (Australia 1896), although filmed in Melbourne,…
Once upon a time there was a country struggling over whether it should be known as Aotearoa or New Zealand. Then a joker by the name of Peter Jackson came…
Abstract This essay frames an examination of The Home Song Stories (2007) and Mao’s Last Dancer (2009) through tracing the cultural and symbolic development of intercultural romance in Australian cinema between white and East…
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon is punctuated by dates crossed out in red on the calendar that mark the time left before the retirement of Captain Nathan Brittles (John Wayne) from…
Alistair Phillips and Julian Stringer (eds.), Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts. Oxford: Routledge, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-415-32848-7 US$35.95 (pb) 363pp (Review copy supplied by Routledge) The study of Japanese cinema has…
Abstract Godfrey Reggio’s non-verbal film Koyaanisqatsi can be seen, in retrospect, as a pioneer both of the emergent environmental film genre, and of certain tropes of visual narrative that have come to…
As part of Screening the Past's tenth anniversary, we invited about 300 colleagues around Australia and the world to nominate the most important contributions to the field in the past decade…
Abstract An implicit theme in natural history documentaries for decades has been the likely impact of such human activities as population growth, land clearing, mining, pesticide usage, and pollution on…
Authors - 278 of them - published in issues 1-21 of Screening the Past STP could not exist without its contributors. The editors take this opportunity to acknowledge you and to…
Abstract Approaching the millennium, and in its immediate wake, a strong sense of historical lateness emerged, a very particular fin de siècle. In film history, this was immediately preceded by the…
I greatly enjoyed seeing The Rose of Rhodesia and reading the excellent essays collected here. But my perspective is a little different from theirs. I am a historian of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and particularly…
When my friend Anne-Marie Duguet came to Sydney about five months ago to take up her appointment as a Visiting Research Professor at the iCinema Centre at the College of…
The interviews to be published on a regular basis across this and future issues of Screening the Past derive from an ARC-funded project, entitled Australian Film Theory and Criticism, undertaken by Constantine Verevis…
On 23 March 1918, a new South African feature film was screened in public for the first time at Cape Town’s City Hall. A seven-reel melodrama involving a stolen diamond,…
Screen Hub Friday 21 September, 2007 Screen Hub wishes to remember Leonie Naughton, who taught many members of the screen community, and made an important contribution to the intellectual environment for…
Sam Rohdie interviewed by Deane Williams Sam Rohdie is currently Professor of Cinema Studies in the Department of Film at the University of Central Florida. He has held the Chair in Film…
The editors wish to thank Nederlands Filmmuseum for graciously allowing its restored print of The Rose of Rhodesia to receive a premiere screening in Sweden in 2007, and for making a digital…
They say first impressions are important. I vividly remember the first time I saw Leonie. Thin, elegant and dressed entirely in black, with a shock of cropped, blond hair and…
Bill Routt interviewed by Deane Williams [The opening question and most of the response to it were lost because of a technical hitch. However, we do know that the first question posed…
Title: ROSE OF RHODESIA, THE (Die Rose von Rhodesia) Director: Harold Shaw Production Date: 1918 Length: 5 reels (81 minutes) Format: 35mm, black and white, silent, full (silent) aperture Speed: 16…
Address by David Hanan, Monash University, at the Celebration of the Life of Dr Leonie Naughton, Le Pine Chapel, St Kilda, Friday 14 September 2007 I can’t compete with what…
Lesley Stern interviewed by Deane Williams PHOTO: BECKY COHEN Professor Lesley Stern is the author of The Scorsese Connection (1995) and The Smoking Book (1999), and co-editor of Falling For You: Essays on Cinema and Performance (1999).…
Abstract The Rose of Rhodesia (1918) has received short shrift in film history because it was made by a company independent from, and crushed by, the South African entertainment business monopoly…
My introduction to Leonie Naughton involved a high degree of confusion and mistaken identity. In my first week at La Trobe University in 1988, wide-eyed, curious and quietly confident about…
Richard J Thompson interviewed by Anna Dzenis and Raffaele Caputo Richard Thompson was Head of the Division of Cinema Studies at La Trobe University between 1980 and 1982, and then again between 1985 and…
Harold Shaw parted ways with the movie magnate I. W. Schlesinger in October 1917, after an acrimonious personal dispute, and immediately set about organizing his own film production company. Shaw…
Leonie Naughton was my Honours supervisor, PhD principal supervisor and mentor in my sessional teaching work at Monash University during the 1990s. Leonie Naughton took over teaching German Cinema when…
[1] This essay was originally published in Art & Text no. 7, Spring 1982, and is reprinted here with the author’s permission. In 1932, more than 20 years after the first futurist…
Abstract The Rose of Rhodesia may have premiered in Africa, but its audiences were neither primitive nor parochial. When the film opened in Cape Town on 23 March 1918, cinema had…
Compiled by Lesley Speed with William D. Routt and David Hanan Leonie Naughton’s research about German film and contemporary screen culture has received international acknowledgement. Her work has been published…
This article was originally published in Australian Journal of Screen Theory nos. 5-6, 1979; and reprinted in An Australian Film Reader, edited by Albert Moran and Tom O’Regan, Currency Press, 1985. It is…
Abstract This essay aims to give a more general introduction to the film-historical context surrounding The Rose of Rhodesia (1918). What was it like to make films in the late 1910s? What…
In her chapter on Tom Joslin’s video AIDS diary Silverlake Life: The View from here (1993), Peggy Phelan argues that Joslin’s video summons and directs its viewer to a kind of off-screen…
The following article is not exactly a Classic or Re-Run; it is a chapter from Bill Routt’s PhD thesis and was selected by Bill for inclusion here. Popular art, which…
Abstract In this essay I discuss the racial discourse underlying the regulation of space, actor movement, and gesture in The Rose of Rhodesia (1918), whose animation and restraint of black characters,…
Cinema and aviation are quintessential enterprises of the modern era. Alison McMahon, in her study of pioneering filmmaker Alice Guy Blaché, refers to film and flying as “the industries of…
This article was originally published in Film Comment vol. 16 no. 4, July-August 1980, and is reprinted here with the author’s permission. [This is the first piece of criticism I wrote in…
Abstract This essay examines The Rose of Rhodesia as both romantic fiction and ethnographic spectacle. It discusses the film’s development of imperial heroes, Lord Cholmondeley and Jack Morel, and a colonial heroine,…
On February 3, 2004, the First Channel of Televisión Española (TVE) broadcast Memoria de España (Spanish Memory), one of its most recent and successful historical documentary productions,[1] to a great audience…
Introduction When it is completed, Part Three will be the fifth instalment of a review of the lesser John Ford films contained in the gigantic Ford At Fox box set. It…
Abstract The Rose of Rhodesia is difficult to place in relation to British imperialism and race relations, because its situation with regard to both is ambivalent. Though clearly an “imperial” film,…
The Anzac legend is central to the Australian identity, drawing on elements of the bush myth and White Australia. The legend can appear monolithic and fixed, but this is only…
Jackie Stacey, The Cinematic Life of the Gene. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-0822345077 US$23.95 (pb) 328pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Jackie Stacey’s book…
Abstract The return of The Rose of Rhodesia to the public domain comes at a remarkable time for Zimbabwe. This melodramatic film about an “unusually large rose diamond” makes an uncanny prophesy about…
According to Mark E. Neely Young Mr. Lincoln “was mostly fiction, and corny fiction at that” (p. 126). The historian acknowledges that the film’s content had been “largely dictated” by The Prairie Years,…
James Chapman and Nicolas Cull, Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinema. London New York: I.B. Tauris 2009 ISBN: 978 1 84511 940 9 UK£15.99 240pp (Review copy supplied by I.B.…
Abstract This paper considers the ways in which The Rose of Rhodesia participates in colonial constructions of race, specifically as the latter relate to questions of land and insurrection. Drawing on a…
In September 2004, Zhang Side, a black and white biopic about the life and death of a soldier stationed in the Communist base camp in Yan’an during World War Two, was…
David Welky, The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0801890444 US$45.00 (pb) 448pp (Review copy supplied by…
Abstract The South African feature film The Rose of Rhodesia was produced when the imperial romance, a genre associated in particular with Rider Haggard, enjoyed great popularity. Some of its typical features…
This article examines the global popularity of South Korea’s contemporary commercial cinema within an Australian context. It uses audience survey findings, industry interviews and national classification database records administered by…
Steven M. Sanders, Miami Vice (TV Milestones series). Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8143-3419-5 US$14.95 (pb) 128pp (Review copy supplied by Wayne State University Press) “Why does Miami Vice matter?”…
Abstract “Could this be Lord Cholmondeley?” wonders Rose Randall, The Rose of Rhodesia’s magazine-reading heroine, when a scruffy stranger arrives at her door. Rose’s weakness for romantic fiction is an obvious…
Cine-Tracts: A journal of film and cultural studies #5, vol. 2, no. 1, Fall, 1978, pp. 42-62. Ronald Abramson (email: ronabrams@earthlink.net) and Richard Thompson From the beginning, Screening The Past was committed to publishing…
Chris Fujiwara, Jerry Lewis (Contemporary Film Directors). University of Illinois Press, 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0252076794 US$19.95 (pb) 176pp (Review copy supplied by University of Illinois Press) This brief but pithy volume increases…
Abstract From earliest times, diamonds have fascinated the purveyors of mass entertainment. Through the impact of literature and, later, cinema, and with the decisive intervention of manipulative advertising, diamonds came…
The Story of the Kelly Gang DVD and Ina Bertrand and William D. Routt, “The Picture That Will Live Forever”: The Story of the Kelly Gang. National Film & Sound Archive,…
Warren Buckland (ed.), Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies. New York: Routledge, 2009 ISBN: 978 0 415 96262 9 US$26.96 (pb) 358pp (Review copy supplied by Routledge) How can we…
Matti, how did you become a silent film musician and composer? When I was studying music at Södra Latin high school in Stockholm in 1989, the school’s film club asked…
Steve Macek, Urban Nightmares: The Media, the Right, and the Moral Panic over the City. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis & London, 2006. ISBN: 0 8166 4361 X US$22.95 (pb)…
Dina Iordanova and Ruby Cheung (eds), Film Festivals and Imagined Communities. Dundee: St Andrews Film Studies, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9563730-1-4 AU$37.00 (pb) 286pp (Review copy supplied by St Andrews Film Studies)…
Act I. Chief Ushakapilla wants his only son, Mofti, to become leader of all Africa. When word comes that the colonial governor has denied his request for land for a…
Graeme Turner, Ending the Affair: The Decline of Television Current Affairs in Australia. University of New South Wales Press, 2005. ISBN: 9 780 86840864 4 AUD$34.95 (pb) 184pp (Review copy…
Charles Maland, City Lights (BFI Film Classics). London: BFI Publishing, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-1844571758 US$14.95 (pb) 128pp (Review copy supplied by Macmillan) Charles Maland’s Chaplin and American Culture: The Evolution of a Star…
Intertitles have been numbered for ease of reference. English translation by Vreni Hockenjos. Intertitle 1 Erster Akt Act One Intertitle 2 Der Kraal des Häuptlings “Ushakapilla”. The kraal of Chief…
Daniel J. Leab, Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 271 02987 8 US$55.00 (hb) 232pp (Review copy supplied by…
Jerad Walters and Marco Lanzagorta (eds), Studies in the Horror Film: Night of the Living Dead. Lakewood: Centipede Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-933618-32-6 US$125 (hb) 368pp (Review copy supplied by Centipede…
Compiled with the generous assistance of Neil Parsons and James Burns. Fig. C1. Ink sketch of Harold Shaw, The Bioscope (London), 24 February, 1916, 759. Fig. C2. Harold Shaw on the cover…
Elana Levine, Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 082 233919 9 US$22.95 (pb) 320pp (Review copy supplied…
Heide Schlüpmann, The Uncanny Gaze: The Drama of Early German Cinema. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010 ISBN: 3-87877-373-0 US$30.00 (pb) 273pp Mark Garrett Cooper, Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional…
The following biographical information has been compiled and written in collaboration with Neil Parsons, who has generously shared his research into The Rose of Rhodesia with the editors. HAROLD MARVIN SHAW (Director).…
Rachel Moore, Hollis Frampton (nostalgia). London: Afterall Books, 2006. ISBN: 978 1 84638 001 3 US$16.00 (pb) 88pp (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) Hollis Frampton’s (nostalgia), or, ‘Lower case, with…
Thomas Waugh, Michael Brendan Baker and Ezra Winton (eds), Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010 ISBN 9780773536630 CA$34.95 (pb) 574pp…
The following list of films directed by Harold Shaw has been compiled from various books and online databases, including Alan Goble’s Complete Index to World Film (http://www.citwf.com), the British Film…
McKenzie Wark, Gamer Theory. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 674 02519 6 US$19.95 (hb) 240pp (Review copy supplied by Harvard University Press) In Montevideo, a…
Roger Hallas, Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness, and the Queer Moving Image. Duke University Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0-8223-4601-2 US$24.95 (pb) 336pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) As HIV/AIDS…
Map 1. South Africa, circa 1900. Source unidentified. Map 2. Central and Southern Africa, 1896. George Gill, The British Colonies, Dependencies, and Protectorates (London, 1896). Map 3. Africa, 1922. The Comparative Atlas…
Nicole Brenez, Abel Ferrara (translated from the French by Adrian Martin). Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 252 07411 0 AUD$37.95 (pb) 240pp (Review copy supplied…
Fig. G1. The Pioneer Column of the British South Africa Company. The Graphic, 25 October 1890. Fig. G2. Tensions between the BSAC and Portugal. Punch, 5 June 1891, 266. Fig. G3. The…
Giorgio Bertellini, Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape and the Picturesque. Indiana University Press, 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22128-5 US$24.95 (pb) 464pp (Review copy supplied by Indiana University Press) “Southernism: The…
James Morrison (ed.), The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All That Heaven Allows. London; New York: Wallflower Press, 2006. ISBN: 978 1 904764 77 9 US$25.00 (pb) 224pp (Review copy supplied…
Robin Wood, Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998 ISBN: 0-231-07605-3 352pp $US22.50 (pb) Uploaded 1 July 1999 This book has two authors:…
Graeme Harper and Jonathan Rayner (eds), Cinema and Landscape. Bristol: Intellect, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-84150-309-7 US$25.00 (pb) 315pp (Review copy supplied by Intellect) Presumably anyone interested in reading Cinema and Landscape, an…
Robert Spadoni, Uncanny Bodies: The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 520 25122 9 US$24.95 (pb)…
JAMES M. BURNS teaches African history at Clemson University. He is the author of Flickering Shadows: Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe (2002) and co-author of A History of Sub-Saharan Africa (2007). He has published…
David Lascelles, Celluloid Creams: A Century of Film in New Zealand. Wellington: IPL Books. 1997 ISBN 0 908876 96 3. 144 pp. NZ$39.95 within New Zealand or $45 overseas (Pb) Fax…
Brian McFarlane and Deane Williams, Michael Winterbottom (British Film Makers). Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-7190-7422 6 AU$89 (hb) 152pp (Review copy supplied by Footprint Books) Michael…
Christine L. Marran, Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture. University of Minnesota Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0816647279 US$22.50 (pb) 264pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota…
1. Jean Painlevé Jean Painlevé was born in 1902. He died in 1989. He made his first film in 1927 and his last in 1982, in all more than 200…
Scott MacDonald, Adventures of Perception: Cinema as Exploration. University of California Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780520258563 US$29.95 (pb) 440pp (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) Scott MacDonald’s Adventures of Perception:…
Dana Polan, Scenes of Instruction. The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 520 24962 2 US$24.95 (pb) 416pp (Review copy…
Among the deepest and most indelible fictions of American national origin is the notion of the “new world” encountered by the earliest English colonists, a world typically characterized as a…
Tom De Haven, Our Hero: Superman on Earth (Icons of America). Yale University Press, 2010 ISBN: 9780300118179 US$24.00 (hb) 240pp (Review copy supplied by Yale University Press) The final chapter of…
Tony Barta (editor), Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History. Westport Ct: Praeger. 1998 ISBN 0-275-95402-1 279pp $59.95(hb) Uploaded 1 July 1999 The essays in Tony Barta's collection…
Steven Bach, Leni, The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 375 40400 9 US$30.00 (hb) 386pp Gerd Gemunden and Mary R.…
Note: this is the third tranche of a multi-tranche review. It deals with some of the films made by John Ford at the Fox Studios in the first half of…
Barbara Creed, Darwin’s Screens: Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time and Sexual Display in the Cinema. Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-522-85709-2 AU$49.99 232pp (Review copy supplied by Melbourne University…
Linda S. Kauffman, Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture. University of California Press, California, 1998. ISBN 0-520-21032-8 324pp $18.95 US (pb) Uploaded 16 April 1999…
Melanie J. Wright, Religion and Film: An Introduction. I.B.Tauris, 2007. ISBN: 978 1 85043 886 1 US$26.95 (pb) 272pp (Review copy supplied by I.B.Tauris) The subtitle of Melanie Wright’s study…
Catherine Lumby, Alvin Purple. Australian Screen Classics series Currency Press/AFC/NFSA, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-86819-844-6 Au$16.95 (pb) 80pp Henry Reynolds, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. Australian Screen Classics series Currency Press/AFC/NFSA, 2008…
Gail Jones, The Piano. Sydney: Currency Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 86819 799 9 AUD$16.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Currency Press) Flagrant poetics: rendering Jane Campion’s The Piano new Gail Jones’ monograph…
A Whole Account of a Great Soul Lorraine Mortimer, Terror and Joy. The Films of Dusan Makavejev. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4887-0 US$25.00 (pb) 336pp (Review copy…
D. N. Rodowick (ed.), Afterimages of Gilles Deleuze’s Film Philosophy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010 ISBN: 978 0 8166 5007 1 US$27.50 (pb) 396pp (Review copy supplied by University…
Tom Standage, The Victorian Internet : The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers. Walker Publishing Company. 1998 ISBN 0 8027 1342 4 240pp US $22.00 Uploaded…
Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 226 31606…
Michael Deeley and Matthew Field, Blade Runner, Deer Hunters & Blowing The Bloody Doors Off: My Life in Cult Movies. London: Faber & Faber, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-571-23919-1 Au$49.95 (hb) 304pp…
Joan Grossman, Blackout: On Memory and Catastrophe. New York and Dresden: Atropos Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9819972-3-0 US$16.95 (pb) 112pp (Review copy supplied by Atropos Press) Philosophers from Aristotle to Jacques…
Marie-Laure Ryan, Avatars of Story. University of Minnesota Press, 2006. ISBN: 978 081664686 9 US$20 (pb) 296pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) Marie Laure-Ryan has written and…
Peter Gidal, Andy Warhol’s Blow Job. London: Afterall Books, 2008. ISBN: 1-846380-41-3 US$16.00 (pb) 112pp (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) During its most influential “Silver” period, Andy Warhol’s factory…
CineBlitz, Love and Longing in Hindi Cinema. VJM Media: Mumbai, 2009 ISBN: 978-81-908829-0-5 US$40 (hb) 206pp (Review copy supplied by D.K.Agencies) Love and Longing in Hindi Cinema (hereafter LLHC) is a glossy…
Ehrhard Bahr, Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 520 25128 1 US$39.95…
Brian McFarlane, Screen Adaptations: Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations: The Relationship Between Text and Film. London: Methuen Publishing Ltd. 2008 ISBN: 978-0713679093 US$19.95 (pb) 224pp The cover of this book features…
Bhaskar Sarkar, Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8223-4411-7 US$25.95 (pb) 372pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University…
James Chapman, Mark Glancy & Sue Harper (eds.), The New Film History: Sources, Methods, Approaches. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. ISBN: 978 023000169 5 US$85.00 (hb) 288pp (Review copy supplied by Palgrave)…
Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi, Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma and Memory. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN: 9 780 74863408 8 UK£16.99 (pb) 256pp (Review copy supplied by Edinburgh University…
Steven Mintz and Randy W. Roberts (eds.), Hollywood’s America: Twentieth Century America Through Film (Fourth Edition). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-4051-9003-9 AU$47.95 (pb) 370pp (Review copy supplied by Wiley-Blackwell publishers)…
Rick Altman, Silent film sound, New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 231 11662 4 462pp US$50 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Columbia University Press) There's a seeming simplicity…
Gene D. Phillips, Beyond the Epic: The Life & Films of David Lean. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 8131 2415 8 US$39.95 (hb) 545pp (Review copy supplied…
Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson (eds), Inventing Film Studies. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978 0 8223 4289-2 US$27.95 (pb) 446pp (Review Copy supplied by Duke University…
Geoff King, New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction. London: I.B. Tauris, 2009 (first published 2002) ISBN 1 86064 749 9 UK£18.99 (pb) 296pp (Review copy supplied by I.B. Tauris) All the…
Tom Cohen, Hitchcock's cryptonymies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. (In two volumes) Vol. I, Secret Agents, 284pp, ISBN: 0 8166 4206 0 (pb) US$25 Vol. II, War Machines, 300pp, ISBN: 0…
Laraine Porter and Bryony Dixon (eds.), Picture Perfect: Landscape, Place and Travel in British Cinema before 1930. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2007-09-12. ISBN: 1 905 81601 4 £14.99 (pb)…
Wheeler Winston Dixon, Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia. Edinburgh University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978 0 7486 2400 3 £18.99 (pb) 208pp Review copy supplied by Edinburgh University Press.…
Rebecca M. Schreiber, Cold War Exiles in Mexico: US Dissidents and the Culture of Critical Resistance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4308-0 US$22.50 (pb) 320pp (Review copy supplied…
Warren Buckland, Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006. ISBN: 0 8264 1691 8 242pp US$19.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Continuum)…
Alan Cholodenko (ed.), The Illusion of Life 2: More Essays on Animation. Sydney: Power Publications, 2007. ISBN: 9 78 0909952 34 1 AUD$59.95 (pb) 576pp (Review copy supplied by Power…
Esther Romeyn, Street Scenes: Staging the Self in Immigrant New York 1880-1924. University of Minnesota Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-081664522 0 US$25.00 (pb) 320pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota…
John Berra (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Japan. Bristol: UK: Intellect Books, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1841503356 UK£16.00 (pb) 350pp (Review copy supplied by Intellect Books) According to the editorial introduction, this…
Michael M. J. Fischer, Mute dreams, blind owls and dispersed knowledges: Persian poesis in the transnational circuitry. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 8223 3298 1 475pp…
[1] In Memory of K.K. Mahajan [2] I would like to begin (as a good Australian citizen), with an anecdote I heard when I was at the Queensland Art Gallery for…
Christopher Wagstaff, Italian Neorealist Cinema: An Aesthetic Approach. University of Toronto Press, 2007. ISBN: 9 7808020 95206 US$39.95 (pb) 514pp (Review copy supplied by University of Toronto Press) Italian neo-realism…
The world of which I am a part includes Julius Orlovsky. Julius is a catatonic, a silent man; he is released from a state institution in the care of his…
Geoff Andrew, 10. London: BFI Publishing, 2005. ISBN: 1 844 57069 X 88pp £9.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI publications) Few films seem as wholeheartedly concerned with "America", in…
Mulberry Omelette Once upon a time there was a king who could call all the power and treasures of the earth his own, but who for all that was not…
Irving Singer, Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on His Creativity. MIT Press, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-19563-8 US$24.95 (hb) 240pp Irving Singer, Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film. MIT Press, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-19589-8…
Fig. 1 One of the core values of the photograph as a visual object of communication is its temporal, emotional and connotative variety. In relation to motion and speed, the…
Albert Moran and Errol Vieth, Historical dictionary of Australian and New Zealand cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 810 85459 7 432pp Au$80 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Scarecrow Press)…
Manny Farber: February 20, 1917 – August 17, 2008 Manny Farber portrait by Fielding Dawson Manny Farber changed the way film was written and thought about. He demonstrated new ways…
James Walters, Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema: Resonance Between Realms. Chicago: Intellect Books, The University of Chicago Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-1-84150-202-1 US$30.00 (pb) 232pp (Review copy supplied by Unireps) The…
In Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s films, photography is present in the everyday lives of the characters. Their homes are decorated with family portraits and holiday snaps. Some of them are photographers…
Patrick McGilligan (ed), Backstory 4: Interviews with screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 520 21518 0 424pp US$24.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied…
The interviews to be published on a regular basis across this and future issues of Screening the Past derive from an ARC-funded project, entitled Australian Film Theory and Criticism, undertaken by Constantine Verevis…
Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti (eds), Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4579-4 US$25.00 (pb) 340pp (Review copy supplied by University…
Profils Paysans (Farmer Profiles) is a film divided into three chapters made by Raymond Depardon and Claudine Nougaret centred on the lives of small farmers in the Cévennes region in…
Anne Billson, Buffy the vampire slayer. London: British Film Institute, 2005. ISBN: 1 8445 7089 4, 192pp, £9 (pb). (Review copy supplied by BFI publications) Rhonda Wilcox, Why Buffy matters:…
Tim Groves and Costas Thrasyvoulou Introduction Richard Combs claims that Michael Mann’s films have an opaque or self-enclosed quality that frustrates interpretation.[1] One reason for such resistance is that Mann’s cinema is…
Nitzan Ben-Shaul, Film: The Key Concepts. Oxford: Berg, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-1845203665 US$19.95 (pb) 192pp (Review copy supplied by Berg Publishers) Nitzan Ben-Shaul’s Film: The Key Concepts is part of a “Key Concepts”…
Images virtually rob us of our memory, because they replace it. – Johan van der Keuken[1] Johan van der Keuken was born in Amsterdam in 1938; he died from prostate…
Michael Hammond, The big show: British cinema culture in the Great War 1914-1918. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 85989 758 3 304pp £45 (hb) (Review copy supplied…
Luis M. Garcia-Mainar Recent contributions to the study of genre have stressed the role of its internal laws, such as historical trends or industrial factors, in the formation and development…
Figure 1. The Kiss, Auguste Rodin, photographed by Eugene Druet, c. 1900. Part of a series of photographs in the collection of the Musée Rodin in Paris taken of…
Jeffrey Ruoff (ed), Virtual voyages: Cinema and travel. Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2006. ISBN: 0 8223 3713 4 298pp US$22.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press)…
The study of screen representations of early Europe is a growing area that has come in recent years to occupy a vital place within the various disciplines of early European…
Why, after a lapse of four decades, rake over the remnants of what are at best little more than footnotes to the film revival? The first and most obvious answer…
Harun Farocki reflects on the filmstrip-as-archive in a handful of films and writings from the 1990s.[1] In films such as Der Ausdruck der Hände (The Expression of Hands, 1997) and…
Abstract Various forms of neo-medievalism are currently revealing themselves on an international scale, both in popular audiovisual culture and in progressive art cinema. This essay critiques the assumptions behind the…
Michael Richardson, Surrealism and cinema. Oxford: Berg, 2006. ISBN: 1 84520 226 0 202pp £14.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Berg publications) Michael Richardson's Surrealism and cinema addresses misconceptions about surrealism and…
[Screening the Past asked Bill Routt to review this archival DVD set documenting most of the surviving films John Ford directed at (Twentieth-Century) Fox from 1920—1952. More of the review will…
The video installation works of Belgian artist David Claerbout explore the “pensive image” since they confront the viewer with photographs, whose mode of stillness guides her towards the contemplation of…
Abstract In its representation of stained-glass windows, medievalist cinema exploits the shared capacity of both media to articulate the dreams, visions and memories of both past and present. Many films…
Abstract The New American Cinema of the 1960s differed from conventional models of filmmaking in many ways, embracing chance, roughness of physical execution, an impoverishment of technical and financial…
András Bálint Kovács, Screening Modernism: European Art Cinema 1950-1980. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-226-45165-7 US$22.50 (pb) 428pp (Review copy supplied by University of Chicago Press) As we…
[1] The last ten to fifteen years have witnessed a rapid growth of academic interest in the formal, cultural and political aspects of both medieval film and graphic novels.[2] While…
Scott Nygren, Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History. University of Minnesota Press, 2007. ISBN-13: 978 0 8166 4708 8 US$25.00 (pb) 304pp (Review copy supplied by University…
1 A little while ago, I was asked by the marketing manager of the University of Minnesota Press to write about The Misfits (USA 1961). The request coincided with the…
Jill Julius Matthews, Dance Hall and Picture Palace: Sydneys Romance with Modernity. Sydney: Currency Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 868 19755 6 Au$32.95 (pb) 342pp (Review copy supplied by Currency Press)…
Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf (USA 2007) is an unusual film. It follows an unusual narrative structure – the hero’s path shifts dramatically into the future at the very moment in which we might…
Jo Fox, Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II Cinema. Oxford: Berg, 2007. ISBN: 9 781 85973896 2 £17.99 (pb) 368pp (Review copy supplied by Berg publishers)…
Photography as an art form took off in the 1970s and Carol Jerrems’ star rose with it. Seen as a democratically accessible medium unencumbered by the vagaries of history and…
Deane Williams, Australian Postwar Documentary Film: An Arc of Mirrors. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2008. ISBN: 9781841502106 UK£29.95 (hb) 192 pp (Review copy supplied by Intellect Books) Deane Williams re-evaluates Australian…
Abstract Terrence Malick’s The New World (2005) is a poetic evocation of one of America’s founding myths, the story of Pocahontas. While the film allegorises - through the theme of marriage -…
Gideon Nisbet, Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture. Bristol Phoenix Press, 2006. ISBN: 1 904675 12 3 AUD$43.95 (pb) 170pp (Review copy supplied by Footprint Books) While Ancient Greece in…
Abstract The American film industry’s response to the events of 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq heralds a transition in its previous reaction to the country at war. During the…
Mark Browning, David Cronenberg: Author or Film-maker? Bristol and Chicago: Intellect Books, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-84150-173-4 US$25.00 (pb) 207pp (Review copy supplied by Intellect Books) After more than half a century…
Abstract This essay examines music in two Arthurian films: John Boorman’s Excalibur (USA 1981), and the television miniseries Mists of Avalon (USA 2001), directed by Uli Edel. It explores the role of music in…
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Discovering Orson Welles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 520 25123 6 US$24.95 (pb) 346pp (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) It’s one…
First published in Photofile (Spring 1985) and reprinted in Blair French (ed.), Photo Files: An Australian Photography Reader (Power Publications/Australian Centre for Photography, 1999). It is published here with the…
Michelle Langford, Allegorical Images: Tableau, Time and Gesture in the Cinema of Werner Schroeter. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2006. ISBN 1-84150-138-7 US$40.00 (pb) 215pp (Review copy supplied by UniReps) Werner Schroeter…
Abstract This paper will consider three medievalist children’s television programmes, Jane and the Dragon, Sir Gadabout and Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, each of which grant knightly roles to their central female characters.…
Michael Barrier, The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 520 24117 6 US$29.95 (hb) 393pp (Review copy…
The following essay is a revised version of a talk on the cinematic influences in Bill Henson’s photography presented as part of the Sydney Festival on the occasion of Henson’s…
Abstract As well as being historical films, Zack Snyder’s 300 and Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven both reflect on the value and the danger of historical commemoration and amnesia. The films’ opposing stances on…
Peter Decherney, Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 231 13377 4 US$19.00 (pb) 272pp (Review copy supplied by…
Sam Rohdie, Montage (Cinema Aesthetics). Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-0719070396 US$19.95 (pb) 146pp (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press) This book treats of montage much as Eisenstein described…
Sharon Lin Tay, Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-230-21776-8 US$80.00 (hb) 208pp (Review copy supplied by Palgrave Macmillan) Contemporary feminist media scholarship is…
Abstract This article considers the 2004 PBS documentary Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance in relation to its suggestions that the Medici family of Florence shared similar traits to modern Mafiosi. It analyses…
Petra Kupper, The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art. London: University of Minnesota, 2007. ISBN: 978 081664653 1 US$29.95 (pb) 360pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota…
Philip Brophy, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Australian Screen Classics Series). Sydney: Currency Press and the Australian Film Commission, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-86819-821-7 Au$16.94 (pb) 88pp (Review copy supplied…
Natalie King (ed.), Up Close: Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang. Melbourne: Heide Museum of Modern Art/Schwartz City, 2010. ISBN: 9 78186395 501 0 AU$59.95 (pb)…
[1] Abstract The story of Tristan and Isolde is one of the founding myths of Western culture and fifteen hundred years after its first appearance artists continue to embrace…
Anne Friedberg, The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. ISBN: 978 0 262 06252 7 US$34.95 (hb) 448pp (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) What…
Jay McRoy, Nightmare Japan: Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema. Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2008 ISBN: 978 90 420 2331 4 US$67 (pb) 219pp (Review copy supplied by Rodopi)…
Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Hollywood Catwalk: Exploring Costume and Transformation in American Film. London: I.B. Tauris, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1848850408 US$28.00 (pb) 256pp (Review copy supplied by I.B. Tauris) Tamar Jeffers McDonald’s…
1. We were in China. I had to clear up some urgent business and, after breakfast with a member of the Gang of Four (Yao Wenyuan), we appointed a leader.…
J. E. Smyth, Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. ISBN: 0 81312406 9 US$50.00 (hb) 447pp (Review copy supplied by the University Press of…
Tim Bergfelder, Sue Harris and Sarah Street, Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema. Amsterdam University Press, 1970 ISBN: 978 90 5356 984 9 US$39.50…
Robin Visser, Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010 ISBN: 978 0 8223 4728 6 US$24.95 384pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University…
Anke Bernau lectures in Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester. She is co-editor of Medieval Film (2009) and author of Virgins: A Cultural History (2007), and has authored numerous essays on…
Roger Beebe and Jason Middleton (eds.), Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones. Durham, Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4162-8 US$23.95 (pb) 360pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University…
Jon Lewis and Eric Smoodin (eds), Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and Method. Duke University Press, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3821-5 US$24.95 (pb) 400pp (Review copy supplied…
Linda Aronson, The 21st Century Screenplay. Allen and Unwin, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-74237-136-8 Au$49.99 (pb) 512pp (Review copy supplied by Allen & Unwin) Patrick McGilligan, Backstory 5: Interviews with Screenwriters of…
“I have hundreds of small sources of inspiration throughout the day, just watching people in daily routines. I think what happens in real life is more important than the cinema.…
Leen Engelen and Roel Vande Winkel, Perspectives on European Film and History. Academia Press, Gent, 2007 ISBN: 97 890 3821082 7 Eur 30.00 (pb) 281pp (Review copy supplied by Gent,…
George Kouvaros, Famous Faces Not Yet Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4747-7 US$24.95 (pb) 304pp (Review copy supplied by University…
D. N. Rodowick, The Virtual Life of Film. Cambridge, Harvard UP, 2007. ISBN 13:978-0-674-02698-8 US$24.95 (pb) 193pp (Review copy supplied by Harvard University Press) Because the digital arts are without…
Abstract This essay uses archival and historical material on Merian C. Cooper and the production and promotion of The Four Feathers (U.S. 1929) to demonstrate key aspects of the settler coloniality of…
Atara Stein, The Byronic Hero in Film, Fiction, and Television. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0809325863 US$45.00 (hb) 272pp (Review copy supplied by Southern Illinois University Press) Narratives…
Jeongwon Joe and Sander L. Gilman (eds), Wagner and Cinema. Indiana University Press, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22163-6 US$27.95 (pb) 504pp (Review copy supplied by Indiana University Press) The scholarly book Wagner…
Ranjani Mazumdar, Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-8166-4942-6 US$22.50 (pb) 257 pages (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) The…
Abstract Strike Me Lucky (Australia 1934) presents an imaginative view of Australian society and consumer culture in the 1930s. The only film starring vaudeville star Roy Rene, it has been largely…
Christine Cornea, Science Fiction Cinema: Between Fantasy and Reality. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-7486-1642-8 Au$49.95 (pb) 308pp (Review copy supplied by Edinburgh University Press) In the foreword to…
Christopher Shannon, Bowery to Broadway: The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema. University of Scranton Press, Scranton & London, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-58966-200-1 US$25.00 (hb) 220pp (Review copy supplied by Scranton…
Paul Grainge, Brand Hollywood: Selling Entertainment in a Global Media Age. London & New York: Routledge, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-415-35405-9 US$34.95 (pb) 224pp (Review copy supplied by Routledge) The brand is…
Steve Chibnall, Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British ‘B’ Film. London: BFI, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-1844571550 US$28.95 (pb) 329pp (Review copy supplied by BFI Publishing) Steve Chibnall is a well-known…
Peter Verstraten (translated by Stefan van der Lecq), Film Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009 ISBN-13: 978 080209 505 3 US$27.95 (pb) 259pp…
Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr, and Takayuki Tatsumi (eds.), Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime. Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. ISBN:…
Guy Westwell, War Cinema. Hollywood on the Front Line. London: Wallflower Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-1-904764-54-0 £12.99stg (pb) 144pp (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press) Despite the number of war films…
The Australian Film Institute (AFI) has always struggled to find its niche within Australian film culture. It has also always had financial difficulties. These two issues intersect at the point…
Amy Herzog, Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8166-6088-9 US$25.000 (pb) 296pp (Review copy supplied by University…
Zhang Zhen (ed.), The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4074-4 US$26.95 (pb) 447pp (Review…
Jonathan Auerbach, Body Shots: Early Cinema’s Incarnations. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-520-25293-6 US$24.95 (pb) 214pp (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) …To achieve any…
This is the latest in a series of interviews we are publishing examining a key period in Australian screen culture. For more information, see the “Introduction to Australian Film Theory and…
Translation by Annabelle J. de Croÿ Introduction by Harriet Margolis Uploaded 16 April 1999 | Modified 20 April 1999 This article first appeared in Revue international de filmologie 1.1 (Juillet-Août 1947): 36-38. The religious…
Reynold Humphries, Hollywood’s Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-7486-2456-0 UK£19.99 (pb) 184pp (Review copy supplied by Edinburgh University Press) Fear and anxiety loomed…
Jeffrey Sconce (ed.), Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3964-9 US$23.95 (pb) 352pp (Review copy supplied by…
Introduction This paper seeks to understand a curious moment in Australian film history: the publication of Albert Moran and Tom O’Regan’s “Two Discourses of Australian Film” (1983) which was closely…
Brian McFarlane, Real and Reel: The Education of a Film Obsessive. Glen Waverley: Sid Harta Publishers, 2010 ISBN: 1-921642-58-0 AU$29.95 (pb) 187pp (Review copy supplied by Sid Harta Publishers) There’s…
Dorota Ostrowska, Reading the French New Wave: Critics, Writers and Art Cinema in France. London: Wallflower, 2008. ISBN: 978-1-905674-57-2 £16.99 (pb) 207pp (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press) The links…
Martin F. Norden (ed.), The Changing Face of Evil in Film and Television. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2007. ISBN: 978 90 420 2324 6 US$77.00 (pb) 244pp (Review copy supplied…
Barbara Hammer, Hammer! Making Movies out of Sex and Life. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York. ISBN 9 781558616 12 7 Au$19.95 (pb) 281pp…
Millicent Marcus, Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-8020-9189-5 US$29.95 (pb with dvd) 224pp (Review copy supplied by University of Toronto Press)…
Abé Mark Nornes, Forest of Pressure – Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary. University of Minnesota Press, 2007 ISBN: 0 8166 4908 1 US$25.00 (pb) 317pp (Review copy supplied by…
Steven Ricci, Cinema and Fascism: Italian Film and Society, 1922-1943. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. ISBN: 0 520 23310 7 US$24.95 (pb) 233pp (Review copy supplied by University of…
Raymond Longford’s The Sentimental Bloke: The Restored Version. Madman/NFSA/ATOM, 2009 (Review copy supplied by ATOM http://www.metromagazine.com.au/shop/product.asp?pID=1864) The Sentimental Bloke is a classic of Australian - and even world - silent cinema:…
Anna Powell, Deleuze and Horror Film. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005 ISBN: 0-7486-1747-7 US$36.00 (pb) 232pp (Review copy supplied by Edinburgh University Press) The rhizome has bloomed. The leaves now…
Catherine Spooner and Emma McEvoy (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Gothic. London; New York: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 415 39843 5 $US30.95 (pb) 290pp (Review copy supplied by Routledge)…
Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley (ed.), Hollywood in the Neighbourhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing. University of California Press, 2008 ISBN: 9 780520249 73 8 US$27.95 (pb) 290pp (Review copy supplied…
Joseph Epstein, Fred Astaire. Yale University Press, 2008 (Review copy supplied by Yale University Press) The question that engages Joseph Epstein concerns Fred Astaire’s enduring magic: why his movies still…
Abé Mark Nornes [Markus Nornes], Cinema Babel: Translating Global Cinema. Minneapolis and London, University of Minnesota Press: 2007. ISBN: 978-0-8166-5042-2 US$22.50 (pb) 304pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota…
Jane Mills, Loving and Hating Hollywood: Reframing Global and Local Cinemas. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2009 ISBN: 9 781741756 647 Aud$39.99 (pb) 249pp (Review copy supplied by Allen &…
Marvin D’Lugo, Pedro Almodóvar. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006 ISBN-10: 0-252-07361-4 US$19.95 (pb) 192pp (Review copy supplied by University of Illinois Press) Auteur on the Global Scene: Pedro…
Robin Blaetz (ed), Women’s Experimental Cinema. Critical Frameworks. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN13: 978 0 8223 4044 7 US$25.95 (pb) 412pp (Review Copy supplied by Duke University…
Sabine Nessel, Winfried Pauleit, Christine Rüffert (eds), Wort und Fleisch: Kino zwischen Text und Körper/ Word and Flesh: Cinema between Text and the Body, German edition. CD with English version…
Charles R. Acland (ed), Residual Media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007 ISBN-10: 0-8166-4472-1 US$25.00 (pb) 400pp (Review copy supplied by the University of Minnesota Press) Obituaries for old media,…
Vanessa Schwartz, It’s So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture. The University of Chicago Press, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74243-4 US$25.00 (pb) 272 pp (Review copy supplied by…
André Gaudreault, From Plato to Lumière: Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema, trans. Timothy Barnard. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009 ISBN: 9 780802095 86 2 US$27.95 (pb) 224pp (Review copy…
Cindy Patton, Cinematic Identity: Anatomy of a Problem Film. University of Minnesota Press, 2007. ISBN: 0-8166-3412-2 US$19.50 (pb) 232pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) From the title,…
Matthew H. Bernstein, Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8203-3239-0 US$24.95 (pb) 332pp (Review copy supplied…
Scott Anthony, Night Mail. London: British Film Institute, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-1-84457-229-8 £9.99 stg (pb) (Review copy supplied by British Film Institute) Night Mail, the GPO Film Unit’s 1936 paean to…
Stella Hockenhull, Neo-Romantic Landscapes: An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008 ISBN (13): 9781847187444 US$69.99 (hb) 220pp (Review copy sent…
Jacob Smith, Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008 ISBN: 9 780520254 94 7 US$24.95 (pb) 304pp (Review copy supplied by University of California Press…
Garrett Stewart, Framed Time: Toward a Postfilmic Cinema. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77416-9 US$40.00 (pb) 299 pp (Review copy supplied by The University of…
Pak Tong Cheuk, Hong Kong New Wave Cinema (1978-2000). Bristol: Intellect Books, 2008 ISBN: 9 781841501 48 2 UK£19.95 (pb) 264pp (Review copy supplied by Intellect Books http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk) From the…
Jane Blocker, Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8166-5476-5 US$25.00 (pb) 153pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press http://www.upress.umn.edu/)…
Emiel Martens, Once Were Warriors: The Aftermath. The Controvery of OWW in Aotearoa New Zealand. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2007. ISBN: 978-90-5260-236-3. €24.90 (pb) 184pp (Review copy supplied by Aksant Publishers) How…
Brian McFarlane (ed), The Encyclopedia of British Film (Third Edition). Methuen, London, 2008 ISBN: 9780413776600 UK £24.99 (pb) 816pp (Review copy supplied by Methuen) Twenty years ago in a television…
Eyal Peretz, Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma’s Cinematic Education of the Senses. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. ISBN-13: 9 780 80475685 3 US$21.95 (pb) 224pp (Review copy supplied by Stanford…
Alexander Jacoby, A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, California, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1933330 53 2 US$22.95 (pb) 398pp…
Barbara Creed, Phallic Panic. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005. ISBN:0 52285 172 X Au$34.95 (pb) 200pp (Review copy supplied by Melbourne University Press) In his essay on the uncanny, Freud…
Brooke Erin Duffy and Joseph Turow (eds), Key Readings in Media Today: Mass Communication in Contexts. London: Routledge, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-415-99205-3 Au$45.00 (pb) 496pp (Review copy supplied by Palgrave MacMillan…
Martine Beugnet, Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 7486 2042 5 US$65.00 (hb) 208pp (Review copy supplied by…
Kristen Whissel, Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4201-4 US$22.95 (pb) 288pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press)…
Steven Jacobs, The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2007. ISBN: 978 90 6450 637 6 €29.50 (pb) 344pp (Review copy supplied by 010 Publishers) ‘Authoritative’…
Barry Curtis, Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film. London: Reaktion Books, 2009 ISBN: 9 781 86189389 5 US$16.00 (pb) 256pp (Review copy supplied by Footprint Books http://www.footprint.com.au/) Even a…
John David Rhodes, Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini’s Rome. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4930-3 US$20.00 (pb) 240pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) Pasolini was born…
Mark Betz, Beyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4036-2 US$25.00 (pb) 384pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press…
Jeffrey Weinstock, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Cultographies). London: Wallflower Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-905674-50-3 US$15.00 (pb) 144pp (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press) Some might say that a film like The Rocky…
Rob King, The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0-520-25537-1 $24.95 (pb) 355pp (Review copy supplied…
Tom Conley, Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema (new introduction). University of Minnesota Press, 1991; 2006. ISBN 0-8166-4970-7 US$22.50 (pb) 296pp Tom Conley, Cartographic Cinema. University of Minnesota Press, 2007. ISBN…
Joe McElhaney, Albert Maysles. University of Illinois Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-252-07621 US$19.95 (pb) 206pp (Review copy supplied by University of Illinois Press) Joe McElhaney, associate professor of film and media…
Jonathan Rayner, The Naval War Film: Genre, History, National Cinema. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-7098-3 US$84.95 (hb) 275pp (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press) A great deal…
Philip Gillett, Movie Greats: A Critical Study of Classic Cinema. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2008 ISBN: 978 1 84520 653 6 US$29.95 (pb) 256pp (Review copy supplied by Berg Publishers) Philip…
Alan Taylor, Jacobean Visions: Webster, Hitchcock, and Google Culture. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-3-631-56227-7 US$41.95 (pb) 201pp (Review copy supplied by Peter Lang) Read from a film-critical…
Steven Maras, Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice. Wallflower Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-905674-81-7 UK£16.99 (pb) 227pp (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk) From his initial point which suggests a problematic…
Robin Nelson, State of Play: Contemporary “High-End” TV Drama. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN: 978-0-7190-7311-3 US$24.95 (pb) 272pp (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press) Even with the continued growth…
Bert Cardullo, Out of Asia: The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiraostami, and Zhang Yimou; Essays and Interviews. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008 ISBN: 1443800252 UK£14.99 (pb) 200pp (Review…
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Film and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick and Wong Kar-wai. New York: Lexington, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0739121870 US$65.00 (hb) 161pp (Review copy supplied by Lexington publications) Thorsten Botz-Bornstein is…
Gönül Dönmez-Colin, Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging. London: Reaktion, 2008 ISBN: 978-1-86189-370-3 US$35.00 (pb) 268pp (Review copy supplied by Footprint Books http://www.footprint.com.au/) Gönül Dönmez-Colin’s Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging provides…
Giorgio Agamben, Profanations (Translated by Jeff Fort). New York: Zone Books, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-1-890951-82-5 US$25.95 (hb) 100pp (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) Philosophy adopts the task, usually as the task par…
Deb Verhoeven, Jane Campion. London: Routledge, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-415-26275-0 US$31.95 285pp (Review copy supplied by Routledge http://www.routledge.com/) Over a decade ago, when I began working on Jane Campion’s The Piano, the amount…
Takayuki Tatsumi, Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America. Duke University Press, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3774-4 US$22.95 (pb) 272pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Full Metal…
Tony Shaw, Hollywood’s Cold War. Baltimore: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-1-55849-612-5 US$29.95 (pb) 352pp (Review copy supplied by University of Massachusetts Press http://www.umass.edu/umpress/about.html) In the forty-plus years that…
Geoff King, Donnie Darko (Cultographies Series). London & New York: Wallflower Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-905674-51-0 US$15.00 (pb) 118pp (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press) It may be no stretch of the…
Roger Ebert, Scorsese by Ebert. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-226-18202-5 Au$25.00 (hb) 297pp (Review copy supplied by Footprint Books http://www.footprint.com.au/) Scorsese by Ebert opens with…
Joanna Page, Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema. Duke University Press, 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-4472-8 US$22.95 (pb) 248pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press http://www.dukeupress.edu/books/) In 1993, influential Argentine…
Therese Davis I would like to reflect on the conference themes of “remaking history” and “remapping cinema” by focussing on the construction of an Indigenous perspective on Australian national history…
Michel Ciment, Film World: Interviews with Cinema’s Leading Directors. New York: Berg, 2009 ISBN: 9 781845204 57 0 US$24.95 (pb) 384pp (Review copy supplied by Berg Publishers http://www.bergpublishers.com/Categories/flm/tabid/602/Default.aspx) Reviewing a…
The rise of cinema around the turn of the 20th century as a popular cultural activity is commonly linked to the emerging modern lifestyle of city residents - a product…
Jane Stadler with Kelly McWilliam, Screen Media: Analysing Film and Television. Crow’s Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2009 ISBN: 978 1 74175 448 3 AU$49.95 (pb) 390pp (Review copy supplied…
After more than a hundred years of filmmaking in New Zealand the corpus of films made either by or about New Zealanders has built up to such an extent that…
Dina Iordanova with Ragan Rhyne (eds), Film Festival Yearbook 1: The Festival Circuit. St Andrews, Scotland: St Andrews Film Studies, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-906678-04-3 UK£16.99 (pb) 225pp (Review copy supplied by…
1. Introduction The two films to be presented in this paper were produced in the 1980s at the height of Hong Kong’s popularity as an Asian film hub, although they…
Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal (eds), Creative Nation: Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies Reader. New Delhi: SS Publications, 2009 ISBN: 81 902282 0 X AU$55 (hb) 600pp (Review copy supplied…