Author Archive for: ‘Rick Thompson’
Tunes for ‘Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon
Daniel Goldmark, Tunes for ‘Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon. University of California Press, 2005 ISBN: 0 520 23617 3 US$40.00 (hb) 225pp (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) The upsurge of animation studies books continues apace. With Yuval Taylor, Daniel Goldmark edited the excellent Cartoon Music Book (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2002). In Tunes for ‘Toons he surveys the entire golden …
Read MoreSecond Take: Australian Film-makers Talk
Raffaele Caputo and Geoff Burton, Second Take: Australian Film-makers Talk. St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1999. ISBN 1 86448 765 8 342 pp A$24.95 (paper) (Review copy supplied by Allen & Unwin) Uploaded 12 November 1999 It is a worrisome time for Australian film culture, what with real and foreshadowed cuts to infrastructure groups, funding and support bodies, and university …
Read MoreEdison: The Invention of the Movies
DVD review: Edison: The Invention of the Movies. Kino Video and the Museum of Modern Art in cooperation with the Library of Congress present 140 Edison Company films, 1891-1918. Curated by Steve Higgins and Charles Musser; film notes by Musser. Interviews with and commentary by Higgins (Film Curator, Museum of Modern Art), Musser (Professor of Film and American Studies, Yale University), …
Read MoreYoung Mr. Lincoln Reconsidered: An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Film Criticism
Cine-Tracts: A journal of film and cultural studies #5, vol. 2, no. 1, Fall, 1978, pp. 42-62. Ronald Abramson (email: ronabrams@earthlink.net) and Richard Thompson From the beginning, Screening The Past was committed to publishing a section called Classics and Re-runs. The purpose of this section was to call attention to screen historical articles of interest which had become difficult to access, or were no …
Read MoreIssue 10 Editorial
Aldrich & Associates special section On 2 August 1998, the Aldrich & Associates symposium took place in Melbourne. Unusually, this event had no budget and no official or institutional status or sponsorship. It was Adrian Martin’s idea: he knew that David Sanjek would be in Melbourne for the first Cinesonic conference, and that Sanjek had presented a paper on Aldrich …
Read MoreRobert Aldrich: An Independent Career
Uploaded 30 June 2000 Robert Aldrich was born in 1917 to a Rhode Island banking family, related on his mother’s side to the Rockefellers. His privileged youth led to a blue-ribbon university at which he devoted his energies to football, and to booking and promoting dance bands. During this period, he became interested in the movies. He directed thirty of …
Read MoreManny Farber and Patricia Patterson Interviewed
Manny Farber: February 20, 1917 – August 17, 2008 Manny Farber portrait by Fielding Dawson Manny Farber changed the way film was written and thought about. He demonstrated new ways to approach cinema and shared with us new ways to see film. His influence on two generations of film critics has been profound (see the Screen-L selection of obituaries on …
Read MoreBackstory 4: Interviews with screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s
Patrick McGilligan (ed), Backstory 4: Interviews with screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 520 21518 0 424pp US$24.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) This latest of McGilligan’s useful and distinguished series of screenwriter interview collections is loosely themed around writers of a certain period of American studio cinema …
Read MoreThe Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney & Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson
Michael Barrier, The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 520 24117 6 US$29.95 (hb) 393pp (Review copy supplied by the University of California Press) Tom Sito, Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, …
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