Author Archive for: ‘Adam Knee’
Thrillers & Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil
Martin Rubin, Thrillers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-58839-1, 319 pp, A$33.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Cambridge University Press) Jonathan Munby, Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. ISBN 0-226-55033-8, 263pp, US$16.00 (Review copy supplied by University of Chicago Press) Uploaded 1 November 2000 The “thriller” is perhaps one …
Read MoreScience Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction
Keith M. Johnston, Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction Berg Publishers, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-84788-476-3 US$29.95 (pb) 197pp (Review copy supplied by Bloomsbury Publishing) Keith M. Johnston’s Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction stands as a welcome addition to the field of science fiction overviews, one which more complements rather than replicates or competes with the relatively few other up-to-date monographs. …
Read More“Film Europe” and ” Film America”: Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1920-1939
Andrew Higson & Richard Maltby, “Film Europe” and ” Film America”: Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1920-1939. University of Exeter Press, 1999. ISBN 0 85989 545 9 (hb) ISBN 0 85989 546 7 (pb) 47.50 stg (hb) 20.00 stg (pb) 406pp. (Review copy supplied by University of Exeter Press) Uploaded 1 March 2000 “Film Europe” and ” Film America”: Cinema, …
Read MoreThe Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way
Larry May, The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. ISBN 0 226 51162 6 348pp US$32.60 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Chicago University Press) Uploaded 20 September 2002 In The Big Tomorrow, Larry May makes the case that certain “traditional” American values often associated with the films of the Hollywood studio …
Read MoreClose encounters of the generic kind: a case study in Thai sci-fi
[1] Uploaded 1 November 2000 One of the most startling groups of images in the visually arresting Thai science fiction film Kawow tee Bangpleng (1994, directed by Nirattisai Kaljareuk) [2] occurs a few minutes after it opens, as a massive spacecraft hovers over a Thai village, shining a beam which, we later learn, is impregnating village women. During this sequence the …
Read More