Author Archive for: ‘James Brown’

Kenneth E. Hall, John Woo’s The Killer. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-962-209-956-2 HKD135.00 (pb) 125pp (Review copy supplied by Hong Kong University Press) Fifteen books in Hong Kong University’s reasonably priced New Hong Kong Cinema series have been published to date. Each interprets an individual film from the fragrant harbour according to each author’s critical preferences, much …

Sam B. Girgus. America on Film: Modernism, Documentary and a Changing America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0521 009316. 226 pp Au$49.95 (Review copy supplied by Cambridge University Press) Film studies is awash with contesting theories regarding the definition, characteristics, purpose, ethics, ideology and comprehension of the range of films that we sometimes problematically categorise as documentaries. Sam Girgus’ …