Author Archive for: ‘Irene Jarvos’

Linda Williams, Screening Sex. A John Hope Franklin Book, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8223-4285-4 US$25.00 (pb) 412pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley. She is known for her breakthrough 1989 book, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the …

Steven Bach, Leni, The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 375 40400 9 US$30.00 (hb) 386pp Gerd Gemunden and Mary R. Desjardins (eds.), Dietrich Icon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 8223 3819 2 US$25.00 (pb) 420pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) 1967. New York City. …

Vanessa Schwartz, It’s So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture. The University of Chicago Press, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-74243-4 US$25.00 (pb) 272 pp (Review copy supplied by University of Chicago Press) The moment that I opened the envelope containing, It’s So French, I knew that I would be completely mesmerized by the subject matter. Before reading a single …

Joe McElhaney, Albert Maysles. University of Illinois Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-252-07621 US$19.95 (pb) 206pp (Review copy supplied by University of Illinois Press) Joe McElhaney, associate professor of film and media studies at Hunter College of the City University of New York has written a detailed and insightful study of the work of the pioneering documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles. The volume …