Author Archive for: ‘Laurie N. Ede’

Murray Pomerance, Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue: Eight Reflections on Cinema Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011 ISBN 978-0520266865 300pp US$29.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) Writing about Michelangelo Antonioni is like trying to catch air. There is material in abundance, but it is difficult to quantify and marshal. But, with Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue, Murray Pomerance …

Jeanette Steemers, Selling Television. British Television in the Global Marketplace. London: BFI Publishing, 2004 ISBN: 1 84457-055-x (pb) ISBN 1-84457-022-3 (hb) 240pp U.K £15.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI Publishing) British tourists are apt to make two observations upon their return from their travels abroad. First, that foreign food is cheap and abundant; second, that British TV is the …

Brian McFarlane (ed), The Encylopedia of British Film. London: Methuen, in association with BFI, 2003 ISBN: 0413773019 800pp £24.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Methuen) A few months ago, I attended a symposium on British film history. During an ice-breaking session, a well known academic was asked to cite his most consulted film book. He nominated Duncan Petrie’s The British Cinematographer, on …

Dennis Altman, Gore Vidal’s America. Cambridge, U.K: Polity Press. ISBN: 0 7465 3363 3 216pp 14.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Polity Press) Someone told me recently that software is now available which allows people to uncover recurrent uses of a word or phrase within a text (this is a boon, apparently, for fans of discourse analysis). Such a tool …

Daniela Berghahn, Hollywood Behind the Wall. The Cinema of East Germany. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005. ISBN: 1 7190 6172 5 294pp £16.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press) Eastern European cinema has always reminded me a little of the old children’s game, What’s the time, Mister Wolf? If you know that game, you’ll know it’s all a matter of …

Sara Gwenllian-Jones & Roberta Pearson (eds), Cult Television. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 8166 3831 4 242pp US$22.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) Some years ago, the Times Higher Education Supplement published a cartoon which derided the growing study of popular culture in the U.K. In the corner of an oak-panelled University staffroom sat a …