Author Archive for: ‘Leland Poague’

Nicholas Haeffner, Alfred Hitchcock. Harlow, England: Pearson Education Limited, 2005. ISBN: 0 582 43738 5 US$14.95 (pb) 125pp (Review copy supplied by Pearson Education Limited) Hitchcock’s cameo appearance in Lifeboat (US 1944) occurs at one remove, in a newspaper advertisement for ‘Reduco, The Sensational New Obesity Slayer’. The ad features two Hitchcocks – fat and thin, ‘Before’ and ‘After’ – who photographically …

Eric Smoodin, Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930-1960. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 8223 3384 8 (hb) US$79.95 ISBN: 0 8223 3394 5 (pb) US$22.95 301pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Film scholars have seen Eric Smoodin’s Capra book on the horizon for a decade now – versions of several chapters have …

Gabrielle Murray, This Wounded Cinema, this Wounded Lfe: Violence and Utopia in the Films of Sam Peckinpah. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. ISBN: 0 275 98058 8 176pp US$89.95 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Greenwood Publishing Group) Those who champion the films of “Bloody Sam” Peckinpah are an impassioned and dedicated critical bunch. Indeed, by contrast with the critical neglect of …

Alan Taylor, Jacobean Visions: Webster, Hitchcock, and Google Culture. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-3-631-56227-7 US$41.95 (pb) 201pp (Review copy supplied by Peter Lang) Read from a film-critical perspective, at least, Alan Taylor’s Jacobean Visions: Webster, Hitchcock, and Google Culture is an avowedly and enthusiastically eccentric book. In his ‘Preface: 1993-2007’, Taylor describes the “twenty-first century impetus” of his book as “one …