Author Archive for: ‘Patrice Petro’

The Films of Gillian Armstrong

Felicity Collins, The Films of Gillian Armstrong. Melbourne: The Moving Image no. 6, Atom, 1999. ISBN 1 876467 037 98pp A$19.95 (paper) (Review copy received from Australian Teachers of Media) Uploaded 12 November 1999 Felicity Collins’ book on the films of Gillian Armstrong might best be described as an extended reflection on the conditions of possibility for feminist filmmaking and, …

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Dietrich’s Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film

Erica Carter, Dietrich’s Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film. London: BFI Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 0 8517 0882 X £48.00 (hb) ISBN: 0 8517 0883 8 £16.99 (pb) 272 pp (Review copy supplied by BFI publishing) I was eager to read and review Erica Carter’s new book, both because I admire Carter’s scholarship and because I am …

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