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…
Second 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…
Edison: 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…
Young 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…
Issue 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…
Robert 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…
Manny 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…
Backstory 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…
The 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…