Author Archive for: ‘June Werrett’
Robert Altman’s Subliminal Reality
Robert T. Self, Robert Altman’s Subliminal Reality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. ISBN 0 8166 3790 332pp US$19.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) Robert Self examines in detail twenty-one of Robert Altman’s thirty-four films in terms of “subliminal reality”: it is a term taken from Altman’s assertions about his work, about what he attempts to …
Read MoreHollywood Romantic Comedy: States of the Union, 1934-65
Kathrina Glitre, Hollywood Romantic Comedy: States of the Union, 1934-65. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 7190 7079 1 US$27.95 (pb) 199pp (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press) The happy ending of the Hollywood romantic comedy genre can be unstable and contradictory according to Kathrina Glitre’s insightful study of the couple in her book, Hollywood Romantic Comedy: States of …
Read MoreSurrealism and cinema
Michael Richardson, Surrealism and cinema. Oxford: Berg, 2006. ISBN: 1 84520 226 0 202pp £14.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Berg publications) Michael Richardson’s Surrealism and cinema addresses misconceptions about surrealism and dispels any limited notion of what surrealism might be. He shows that surrealism is an activity, a living thing or a tension within the work rather than it is a …
Read MoreThinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying
Peter Lehman and William Luhr, Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying. (Second Edition). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 0 631 23358 X 397pp US$49.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Blackwell Publishing) A large introductory textbook can be a static piece of work and off-putting for the student who may have thought that taking a cinema course would be an enjoyable, and …
Read MoreRobert Altman: Interviews
David Sterritt (ed), Robert Altman: Interviews. Jackson: University of Mississippi, 2000. (Conversations with filmmakers series. General editor: Peter Brunette.) ISBN 1 57806 186 5 (hb) ISBN 1 57806 187 3 (pb) 256pp US$45.00 (hb) US$18.00 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of Mississippi Press) Uploaded 30 June 2000 Robert Altman: Interviews is a welcome and precious addition to this prolific “Conversations …
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