Cinema and Modernity
Murray Pomerance (ed.), Cinema and Modernity. Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. ISBN: 0 8135 3816 5 US$24.95 (pb) 373pp (Review copy supplied by Rutgers University Press) Edited collections of…
Pretend we’re Dead. Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture
Annalee Newitz, Pretend we’re Dead. Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 8223 3745 2 US$21.95 (pb) 223pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University…
Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order
Stuart Klawans, Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order. London/New York, Cassell, 1999. ISBN 0 3047005 41 188 pp. US$19.95 (paper) Uploaded 12 November 1999 There are occasions when the…
Withnail & I
Kevin Jackson, Withnail & I. (BFI Modern Classics). London: BFI Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 1 84457 035 5 96pp (Book supplied by BFI Publishing) What is one to say about a…
Screen Scores: Studies in Contemporary Australian film music
Rebecca Coyle (ed). Screen Scores: Studies in Contemporary Australian film music Sydney: AFTRS 1998. ISBN: 1 876351 00 4 Uploaded 18 December 1998 Despite a growing body of scholarship on…
Fear is a man’s best friend: deformation and aggression in the films of Robert Aldrich
Uploaded 30 June 2000 The recent proliferation in the United States of shootings by adolescents of parents and peers has occasioned yet another ritual of moral hand wringing over the…