Author Archive for: ‘Roger Macy’

Forest of Pressure – Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary

Abé Mark Nornes, Forest of Pressure – Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary. University of Minnesota Press, 2007 ISBN: 0 8166 4908 1 US$25.00 (pb) 317pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) Abé Mark Nornes has become, with the publication of this book, an author with a considerable range, with a recent book on film translation – the …

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Out of Asia: The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiraostami, and Zhang Yimou; Essays and Interviews

Bert Cardullo, Out of Asia: The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiraostami, and Zhang Yimou; Essays and Interviews. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008 ISBN: 1443800252 UK£14.99 (pb) 200pp (Review copy supplied by Cambridge Scholars Publishing) The title of this book is long enough for me to pick an argument with before I start. Its length, I suppose, is the …

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