Author Archive for: ‘Tony Williams’
British Cinema Comedy
I.Q. Hunter & Laraine Porter, British Cinema Comedy London and New York: Routledge, 2012 ISBN: 978 0 415 6666 7 1 UK £24.99 (pb) 228pp (Review copy supplied by Routledge) This is undoubtedly one of the best and most comprehensive genre collections in the Routledge British Popular Cinema series to have appeared so far. Covering familiar ground such as Ealing …
Read MoreCold War Exiles in Mexico: US Dissidents and the Culture of Critical Resistance
Rebecca M. Schreiber, Cold War Exiles in Mexico: US Dissidents and the Culture of Critical Resistance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4308-0 US$22.50 (pb) 320pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) McCarthyism and the American Blacklist (or “Inquisition” as Cedric Belfrage so aptly termed it decades ago) had a devastating effect on progressive ideals in the …
Read MoreDirectory of World Cinema: Japan
John Berra (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Japan. Bristol: UK: Intellect Books, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1841503356 UK£16.00 (pb) 350pp (Review copy supplied by Intellect Books) According to the editorial introduction, this volume “is intended to be informative rather than exhaustive. Instead of providing a general overview of Japanese Cinema, past and present…this volume aims to offer readers both familiar and unfamiliar …
Read MoreNeo-Romantic Landscapes: An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger
Stella Hockenhull, Neo-Romantic Landscapes: An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008 ISBN (13): 9781847187444 US$69.99 (hb) 220pp (Review copy sent by Cambridge Scholars Publishing) Aesthetically and culturally, the Archers are often regarded as the great outsiders of British Cinema, who followed European and Hollywood models rather than belonging to any …
Read MoreDark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship
Jonathan Auerbach, Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-8223-5006-4 USA $23.98 (pb) 280pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Since American film noir has focused on scholarly discussion for nearly six decades now, the appearance of any new study offering original insights and new perspectives would appear to offer a …
Read MoreNeo-Noir, Mark Bould, Kathrina Glitre, and Greg Tuck (eds.).
London & New York: Wallflower Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-906660-17-8 (pbk) UK 16.14 ISBN 978-1-906660-18-5 (hbk) UK 45 267pp (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press) It is hard to believe that that the term neo-noir has been in common currency for approximately the past forty years. Bu, t with the exception of the pioneering works of Alain Silver and James Ursini, …
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