Author Archive for: ‘Gabrielle Murray’
Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde
Lester D. Friedman (ed), Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-521-59697-1 211pp. A$33.95 (Review copy supplied by Cambridge University Press) Uploaded 1 March 2001 It is nearly seventy years since the notorious Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed on the roadside in Louisiana, their bodies pulverized by a barrage of more than eighty bullets. It …
Read MoreCold War Captives: Imprisonment, Escape, and Brainwashing, Susan L. Carruthers
Susan L. Carruthers, Cold War Captives: Imprisonment, Escape, and Brainwashing. California: University of California, 2009. ISBN: 9780520257313 US$21.95 (pb) 352pp (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) A professor in the Federated Department of History at Rutgers University, Susan L Carruthers’ research on American and British 20th century history focuses on the relation of media to conflict and war. …
Read MoreFact and Fiction: The Iraq War Film in Absence
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 Vietnam conflict, the industry was slow to tackle the complex issue of representing an increasingly unpopular war. However, the Iraq War has quickly found expression in both fiction and non-fiction …
Read MoreWake in Fright, Tina Kaufman
Sydney: Currency Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-86819-864-4 AU$16.95 (pb) 71pp (Review copy supplied by Currency Press) “It’s death to farm out here, it’s worse than death in the mines; you want them to sing bloody opera as well?” Doc (played by Donald Pleasance, qted by Kaufman, p. 26). Tina Kaufman notes in her study of Wake in Fright (Australia/USA 1971) that …
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