Cinema and aviation are quintessential enterprises of the modern era. Alison McMahon, in her study of pioneering filmmaker Alice Guy Blaché, refers to film and flying as “the industries of…
Introduction December 2002: After the Film and History Conference in Adelaide, I am flying home, having given my paper on Australians in early (1915-1925) Hollywood. I flip through the airline…
Kay Armatage, The Girl from God's country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. ISBN: 0 802085423. 428pp £20 (hb) (Review copy supplied by University…
Ronald Genini, Theda Bara: A Biography of the Silent Screen Vamp, with a Filmography. Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publisher 1996 ISBN: 0-7864-0202-4. 158 pp Uploaded…
Uploaded 18 December 1998 Various writers on Fifth Generation filmmaking have noted a characteristic ambiguity which refuses to prescribe a single set subject position for audiences. [1] Rey Chow, for…
John J. McGowan, J. P. McGowan: Biography of a Hollywood Pioneer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2005. ISBN: 0 7864 1994 6 220pp $US39.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by McFarland…
Ginger Mick (Gilbert Emery) and Bill (Arthur Tauchert) in Raymond Longford's The Sentimental Bloke. From the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Introduction Raymond Longford’s The Sentimental Bloke, completed in…
Stella Bruzzi, Undressing Cinema: Clothing and Identity in the Movies. London: Routledge, 1997. ISBN 0-415-13957 226 pages. A $29.95. Pam Cook, Fashioning the Nation: Costume and Identity in British Cinema. London: British Film…
Alison McMahan, Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of the Cinema. New York and London: Continuum, 2002. ISBN: 0 826 45158 6 384pp US$35.00 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Continuum international…
Alice Rayner, Ghosts: Death’s Double and the Phenomenon of Theatre. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 8166 4545 0 $US22.50 (pb) 207pp (Review copy supplied by University of…