Tania Modleski, Old Wives' Tales: Feminist Re-visions of Film and other Fictions. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999. ISBN 1 86064 386 8 238 pp UK£14.95 (Review copy supplied by I.B. Tauris) Uploaded…
Valeria Belletti, Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s. (Ed. and annotated by Cari Beauchamp.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. ISBN:…
Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink (eds.), The CInema Book. 2nd ed. London: BFI, 1999. ISBN 085170 726 2 AU$80.00. (Review copy supplied by Peribo) Uploaded 1 November 2000 The fact that…
Once upon a time there was a country struggling over whether it should be known as Aotearoa or New Zealand. Then a joker by the name of Peter Jackson came…
Virginia Wright Wexman, Jane Campion: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi, 1999 216pp ISBN 1 57806 082 6 US$45.00 (cloth) ISBN 1 57806 083 4 US$18.00 (paper) (Review copy supplied by…
Lindsay Shelton, The Selling of New Zealand Movies. Wellington: Awa Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 9582 5384 6 239pp NZ$39.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Awa Press) The cover of Lindsay…
Helen Martin and Sam Edwards New Zealand Film 1912-1996 Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997 ISBN: 019 558336 1 NZ$49.95 (pb) 215 pp Without question, New Zealand Film 1912-1996 goes far towards filling…
Jonathan Dennis and Jan Bieringa, eds Film in Aotearoa New Zealand Wellington, NZ: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 1996 2nd edition ISBN: 0 86473 309 7 NZ$49.95 (pb) 244 pp…
[1] Uploaded 29 May 1998 | Updated 31 July 1998 Combining words with images for narrative purposes dominates work by some of New Zealand's most important contemporary painters, just as…
Graeme Harper and Jonathan Rayner (eds), Cinema and Landscape. Bristol: Intellect, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-84150-309-7 US$25.00 (pb) 315pp (Review copy supplied by Intellect) Presumably anyone interested in reading Cinema and Landscape, an…
David Lascelles, Celluloid Creams: A Century of Film in New Zealand. Wellington: IPL Books. 1997 ISBN 0 908876 96 3. 144 pp. NZ$39.95 within New Zealand or $45 overseas (Pb) Fax…
Sue Thornham (ed), Feminist Film Theory: A Reader. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999) ISBN 0 7486 0890 7 361pp NZ$64.95 Sue Thornham, Passionate Detachments: An Introduction to Feminist Film Theory. (London: Arnold, 1997)…
Ehrhard Bahr, Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 520 25128 1 US$39.95…
Jeffrey S. Miller, Something Completely Different: British Television and American Culture Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. ISBN 0 8166 3241 3 250 pp US$17.95 (Review copy supplied by University…
Uploaded 16 April 1998 Introduction: That filmologie is one of the more obscure byways of film history is surprising, given its influence on the development of film theory. Filmologie, a phenomenon of post-World…
John Mowitt, Re-takes: Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 8166 2891 2 246pp US$23.50 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press)…
Robert M. Entman & Andrew Rojecki, The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000. ISBN: 0 226 21075 8. 305…
Emiel Martens, Once Were Warriors: The Aftermath. The Controvery of OWW in Aotearoa New Zealand. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2007. ISBN: 978-90-5260-236-3. €24.90 (pb) 184pp (Review copy supplied by Aksant Publishers) How…
Edward Baron Turk Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald Berkeley: University of California Press. 1998 ISBN 0 520 21202 9 467pp US $35.00 (cloth) Uploaded 16 April 1999 Although…
Gönül Dönmez-Colin, Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging. London: Reaktion, 2008 ISBN: 978-1-86189-370-3 US$35.00 (pb) 268pp (Review copy supplied by Footprint Books http://www.footprint.com.au/) Gönül Dönmez-Colin’s Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging provides…
Deb Verhoeven, Jane Campion. London: Routledge, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-415-26275-0 US$31.95 285pp (Review copy supplied by Routledge http://www.routledge.com/) Over a decade ago, when I began working on Jane Campion’s The Piano, the amount…
Anita Loos, Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos. Ed. and annotated by Cari Beauchamp & Mary Anita Loos. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 0 520…