The Story of the Kelly Gang DVD and “The Picture That Will Live Forever”: The Story of the Kelly Gang

The Story of the Kelly Gang DVD and Ina Bertrand and William D. Routt, “The Picture That Will Live Forever”: The Story of the Kelly Gang. National Film & Sound Archive,…

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The Uncanny Gaze: The Drama of Early German Cinema & Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood

Heide Schlüpmann, The Uncanny Gaze: The Drama of Early German Cinema. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010 ISBN: 3-87877-373-0 US$30.00 (pb) 273pp Mark Garrett Cooper, Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional…

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Liberating Hollywood. Women Directors & the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema

Maya Montañez Smukler, Liberating Hollywood. Women Directors & the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2019 ISBN 9780813587479 US$46.80 (pb) 351pp (Review copy supplied…

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The Last Silent Picture Show: Silent Films on American Screens in the 1930s, William M. Drew

Lanham/Toronto/Plymouth: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2010 ISBN 978-0-8108-7680-4 US$50 (pb) 243 pp (Review copy supplied by The Scarecrow Press, Inc) The afterlife of silent films has lasted much longer than…

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