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…
Fannie Hurst, Imitation of Life. Edited and introduced by Daniel Itzkovitz Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 8223 3324 4 352pp US$19.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Duke University…
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)…
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…
Uploaded 1 November 2000 Women in cinema Introduction In 1931 Japanese critics rated the Shochiku company's first full talkie, Madamu to nyobo (The Neighbour's Wife and Mine, dir. Gosho Heinosuke), the best…
Life is Beautiful (1998): An Appreciation Uploaded 16 April 1999 | Modified 7 June 1999 Many serious critics, at home and abroad, have acknowledged the charms of Benigni's film, Life is…