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Ivone Margulies (ed), Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema. Durham, NC & London: Duke University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0 8223 3066 0 360pp US$21.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Editor Ivone Margulies nails her colours to the mast early on in this anthology, stating that it is “inspired by, and pays tribute to, André Bazin’s thoughts …

Alan Rosenthal and John Corner (eds.), New Challenges for Documentary (2nd edition) Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2005 ISBN 0 7190 6899 1 512pp Au$58.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press) The original version of New Challenges was edited by Alan Rosenthal and published in 1988, and in this latest version he shares editing duties with John Corner. The …

Christopher Beach, Class, Language and American Film Comedy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0 521 00209 5 241pp. £16.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Cambridge University Press) Any book entitled Class, Language and American Film Comedy risks tempting fate. Inevitably, the task of surveying such an infinite field is impossible without drawing some rigorous parameters. Here, author Christopher Beach stakes out …

Jonathan B Vogels, The Direct Cinema of David and Albert Maysles. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 8093 2643 4 219pp US$45 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Southern Illinois University Press) In an age when the term direct cinema is most often used as an epithet and derided as bankrupt and mendacious by members of the new documentary …