Author Archive for: ‘Geoffrey Nowell-Smith’

James Donald, Anne Friedberg & Laura Marcus (ed), Close up, 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism. London: Cassell, 1998. ISBN 0691004625 256pp US$19.95 (paper) (Review copy received from Princeton University Press) Uploaded 12 November 1999 In the generally dim panorama of British modernism the film magazine Close up shines like a beacon. It was the brain child of Kenneth Macpherson, a young man of …

Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour (eds.), Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film. An Alphabet City Media Book. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 262 05078 1 544pp US$35.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) Reading Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour’s fascinating new book, Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film, I was reminded of my own solitary experience of the …

Christopher Wagstaff, Italian Neorealist Cinema: An Aesthetic Approach. University of Toronto Press, 2007. ISBN: 9 7808020 95206 US$39.95 (pb) 514pp (Review copy supplied by University of Toronto Press) Italian neo-realism was many things. At one end of the spectrum it was a wide social and artistic movement emerging from the debris of the Second World War – Fascism, German occupation, …