Author Archive for: ‘Arthur Lindley’
The Films of Akira Kurosawa
Donald Richie, The Films of Akira Kurosawa. 3rd Edition. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1996. ISBN: 0-520-22037-4 273 pp. (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) Uploaded 1 November 2000 Those who own the second edition of this (once) famous book may want to consider their budget carefully before buying the third. For your considerable outlay you …
Read MoreDisaster and Memory: Celebrity Culture and the Crisis of Hollywood Cinema
Wheeler Winston Dixon, Disaster and Memory: Celebrity Culture and the Crisis of Hollywood Cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999 ISBN: 0 231 11317 X 182pp US$16.50 (paper) US$42.50 (cloth) (Review copy supplied by Columbia University Press) Uploaded 12 November 1999 This is the second Columbia University Press book I have been sent for review in recent months and both …
Read MoreThe Ahistoricism of Medieval Film
Abstract For the past four years at the National University of Singapore I have taught a fourth-year Honours seminar called Film and History, originally designed to compare and contrast the ways in which films of the Middle Ages and those of more recent history (1860-1940) reconstruct the past. (The most significant biassing factor is that the films considered are European …
Read MoreSexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond
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: a clever, worm-catching Robin and a very thick Wood. Robin is a shrewd analyst of other critics’ logic and an attentive, informed observer of a wide range of films. Wood …
Read MoreBritish Cinema in the 1980s
John Hill, British Cinema in the 1980s. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0-19-874256 (pb) 261 pp US$24.95 (pb) Uploaded 30 June 2000 The cover of John Hill’s solid, informed account of English film in the 1980s tells you a lot about who and what is important to its author: Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, a still from The …
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