Author Archive for: ‘Maura Edmond’

Alison Griffiths, Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-231-12988-6 US$45.00 (hb) 392pp (Review copy supplied by Columbia University Press) Alison Griffiths’ very handsome new book Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View aims to “explore an expanded paradigm of spectatorship, beyond the seated spectator in the darkened auditorium” …

Joshua Yumibe, Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism Rutgers University Press, New York, 2012. ISBN: 978-081355 2972 US$29.95(pb) 230pp (Review copy supplied by Rutgers University Press) Joshua Yumibe’s Moving Color is a slender, thoughtful and carefully researched book about the emergence of applied colour techniques in cinema from the 1890s to the 1920s. To my knowledge it’s the only …

Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Hollywood Catwalk: Exploring Costume and Transformation in American Film. London: I.B. Tauris, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1848850408 US$28.00 (pb) 256pp (Review copy supplied by I.B. Tauris) Tamar Jeffers McDonald’s latest book Hollywood Catwalk: Exploring Costume and Transformation in American Film attempts to pick apart one of the most peculiar, enduring and stupidly satisfying film tropes – the makeover. It …

Jeffrey Sconce (ed.), Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3964-9 US$23.95 (pb) 352pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Jeffrey Sconce is a terrific smart arse. It’s what makes him such a pleasure to read, and what ensures his ‘Trashing the Academy’ is one of the …

Jacob Smith, Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008 ISBN: 9 780520254 94 7 US$24.95 (pb) 304pp (Review copy supplied by University of California Press http://www.ucpress.edu/) Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media begins with a description of a phonograph record from 1908 called The Laughing Spectator in which a talented comedian plays multiple speaking parts in a performance …