Peter B. High, The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. ISBN 0 299 18134 0 544 pp US$24.95…
Nicky Hamlyn, Film Art Phenomena. London, British Film Institute, 2003. ISBN: 0851709729 224pp UK£16.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI publishing) Nicky Hamlyn's aptly named Film Art Phenomena is a timely and…
Angela Ndalianis, Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment. Cambridge, Mass. & London: The MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 262 14084 5 336 pp US$34.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by MIT Press)…
Jennifer M. Bean & Diane Negra. A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0 822 32999 9 584pp US$27.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied…
Mark Nicholls, Scorsese’s Men: Melancholia and the Mob. North Melbourne: Pluto Press Australia, 2004. ISBN: 1 86403 156 5 191 pp Au$29.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Pluto Press) The…
Mark Garrett Cooper, Love Rules: Silent Hollywood and the Rise of the Managerial Class. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. ISBN 0 8166 3753 9 US$19.95 (pb) ISBN 0 8166…
Nicolas Tredell (ed), Cinemas of the Mind. Cambridge, Icon Books, 2002. ISBN: 1 840 46354 6 287pp Au$35.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Cambridge books) Nicolas Tredell's Cinemas of the Mind is…
Valerie Orpen, Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive. London and New York: Wallflower. 2003. ISBN: 1 903364 53 1 UK£12.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press) Claude Chabrol…
Jay David Bolter & Diane Gromala, Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art and the Myth of Transparency. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2003. ISBN: 0 262 02545 0 208 pp…
Helen Bandis, Adrian Martin and Grant McDonald (eds), Raúl Ruiz: Images of Passage. Rouge Press/Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2004. ISBN: 0 97518 690 6 114 pp Au $24.95 (Review copy…
Nick James, Heat (BFI Modern Classics). London: BFI Publishing, 2002. ISBN: 0 85170 938 9 96pp UK£8.99 (pb) (Book supplied by BFI Publishing) "Violent crime film, tragic epic, heist movie, realistic…
Alison McMahan, Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of the Cinema. New York and London: Continuum, 2002. ISBN: 0 826 45158 6 384pp US$35.00 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Continuum international…
Irving Singer, Reality Transformed: Film as Meaning and Technique. Cambridge, Mass. & London: The MIT Press, 1998. 216pp US$18.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by The MIT Press) According to Singer,…
Sara Gwenllian-Jones & Roberta Pearson (eds), Cult Television. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 8166 3831 4 242pp US$22.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press)…
Frank N. Ukadike, Questioning African Cinema: Questioning African Filmmakers. Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. ISBN 0 8166 4005 X US$19.95 (pb) ISBN 0-8166-4004-1 US$59.95 (hb) 304pp (Review copy…
Anita Loos, Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos. Ed. and annotated by Cari Beauchamp & Mary Anita Loos. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 0 520…
Mary Lea Bandy & Antonio Monda (eds), The Hidden God: Film and Faith. Museum of Modern Art, 2003. ISBN: 0 870 70349 8 312pp US$24.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by…
Christine Gledhill, Reframing British Cinema 1919-1928. Between Restraint and Passion. London: BFI Publishing, 2003.ISBN: 0 85170 889 7 214pp UK£17.99(pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI Publishing) I anticipate some difficulty…
Sean Cubitt, The Cinema Effect. Cambridge, Massachusetts:The MIT Press. 2004 ISBN: 0 262 03312 7 464 pp Au$69.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) Sean Cubitt's book The Cinema Effect is…
Caryl Flinn, The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style. University of California Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 520 23823 0 331pp US$19.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by…
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…
Anne Morey, Hollywood Outsiders. The Adaptation of the Film Industry 1913-1934. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2003. ISBN 0 8166 3733 4 242 pp US $ 22.95 (pb) (Review copy…
Keith Beattie, Documentary Screens Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN: 0 333 74117 X 288pp $A 53.00 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Palgrave) One of the ironies of this "post documentary"…
George Kouvaros, Where Does it Happen? John Cassavetes and Cinema at the Breaking Point. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 8166 4330 X 264 pp US $18.95 (pb)…
Jay Ruby, Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film & Anthropology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. ISBN: 0 226 73099 9 339 pp US$20.00 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Chicago…
Therese Davis, The Face on the Screen: Death, Recognition & Spectatorship. Bristol: IntellectLtd., 2004. ISBN: 1 841500 084 4 192pp UK£19.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Intellect books) The media…
Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz, Bunuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 0520239520 202pp US$60.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by the University of California…
Thomas Leitch, Crime Films. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0 521 64671 5 400pp Au$59.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Cambridge University Press) The cover of this academic study presents…
Ryan Gilbey, Groundog Day. London: BFI publishing, 2004. ISBN: 1 84457 032 0 96 pp UK£8.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI publishing) On a certain level, one can hardly…
Ian Pryor, Peter Jackson: From Prince of Splatter to Lord of the Rings. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004. ISBN: 0312322941. 380 pp. US$24.95 (hb) (First published in 2003 by Random…
Peter Geller, Northern Exposures: Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45. University of British Columbia Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 7748 0928 0 (pb) 256pp Canadian $29.95 (Review copy supplied by…
Edward Buscombe, Unforgiven. London: British Film Institute, 2004. ISBN: 1 84457 033 9 96pp £8.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by British Film Institute) Perhaps the most interesting critical question about…
Chris Berry (ed), Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes. London: British Film Institute, 2003. ISBN: 0851709869 (pb) £16.99 ISBN: 0851709850 (hb) £55.00 240pp (Review copy supplied by BFI publishing)…
American history on film Peter C. Rollins (ed), The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. ISBN:…
Josef Gugler, African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. ISBN 0 253 21643 5 216pp US$24.95(pb) (Review copy supplied by Indiana University Press) Josef Gugler has spent…
Michael Temple and Michael Witt (eds), The French Cinema Book. London: BFI Publishing, 2004. 300pp ISBN: 1 84457 012 6 (pb) £16.99 ISBN: 1 84457 011 8 (hb) £48.00 (Review…
Jason Wood, 100 American Independent Films. London: BFI Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 1 844 57006 1 204 pp UK£13.99 (Review copy supplied by BFI Publishing) Jason Wood's 100 American Independent Films is…
Steve Neale (ed.), Genre and Contemporary Hollywood. London: British Film Institute, London, 2002. ISBN: 0851708870 322 pp £15.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by British Film Institute) The publication of recent…
Fergus Daly and Garin Dowd, Leos Carax. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0 7190 6315 9 244pp UK£11.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press)…
Sarah Street, Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the USA. New York: Continuum, 2002. ISBN 0 8264 1396 X 280pp UK£18.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Continuum International Publishing Group)…