Author Archive for: ‘Mike Lim’

Rick Altman, A Theory of Narrative. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-231-14429-2 US$27.50 (pb) 392pp (Review copy supplied by Columbia University Press) It’s nothing new to say that telling stories is a way of imagining the world differently and possibly changing it. One of the things that Rick Altman does in A Theory of Narrative is to point out that …

Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 226 31606 2 US$30.00 (hb) 419pp (Review copy supplied by the University of Chicago Press) One of my first experiences of photography as something to be looked at in itself was, as …

George Kouvaros, Famous Faces Not Yet Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4747-7 US$24.95 (pb) 304pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) My first experience of John Huston’s The Misfits (USA 1961) was not of the film itself, but of an Eve Arnold photograph of Marilyn Monroe on set. …

Garrett Stewart, Framed Time: Toward a Postfilmic Cinema. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77416-9 US$40.00 (pb) 299 pp (Review copy supplied by The University of Chicago Press) In F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (Germany 1922) the vampire Count Orlock meets his end by being exposed to sunlight. We see this death as a lap dissolve where the Count simply …