Author Archive for: ‘Leanne Downing’

Kevin Heffernan, Ghouls, Gimmicks and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004 ISBN: 0 82233 215 9 304pp US$22.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) In Ghouls, Gimmicks and Gold, Kevin Heffernan explores a series of cultural and economic shifts that took place within the production and reception of horror films …

Charles Acland, Screen Traffic, Movies, Multiplexes and Gobal Culture. London: Duke University Press. 2003 ISBN: 0 82233 163 2 320pp US$22.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) In Screen Traffic, Movies, Multiplexes and Global Culture, Charles Acland investigates the ways in which the post 1986 U.S. commercial film business altered prevailing industry and audience conceptions of movie-going. In particular, …

Shelly Stamp, Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2000. ISBN 0 69104 457 0 320pp US$22.95 (Review copy supplied by Princeton University Press) Uploaded 1 December 2001 Following the decline of the nickelodeon boom, a number of profound changes took place within the American film industry. Cinema’s visual syntax, its narrative structure …

Karen Beckman, Vanishing Women: Magic, Film and Feminism. Duke University Press. 2003. ISBN 0 8223 3074 1 256pp US (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) With the aid of trapdoors, mirrors, elevators, photographs and film, female vanishing acts occupy a prolific and highly political position within the genesis of Western visual culture. In Vanishing Women: Magic, Film and Feminism Karen …

Gaye Poole, Reel Meals, Set Meals: Food in Film and Theatre. Sydney: Currency Press, 1999. ISBN 086819 578 2 280pp A$24.95 (Review copy supplied by Currency Press) Uploaded 1 November 2000 “If you can never eat with someone you are never really together with them. It’s a very clever strategy. All over the world, eating is the great symbol of …