Issue 18 – Reviews

Stephen Heath, César. (BFI Film Classics) London: BFI publishing, 2004. ISBN: 0 85170 833 1 88 pp £8.99stg. (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI Publishing) If serious cinephilia has lionized…

George Bluestone, Novels into Film. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press. Paperback edition. 2003. (first published Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore Maryland, 1957) ISBN: 0 80187 386 X 256pp US$25…

Jan Johnson-Smith, American Science Fiction TV: Star Trek, Stargate and Beyond. London & New York: I.B.Tauris, 2004. ISBN 1 86064 882 7 320pp £12.99 stg. (pb) (Review copy supplied by…

Jeffrey Shaw & Peter Weibel (eds), Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film. ZKM, Karlsruhe; MIT Press, Cambridge MA. 2003. ISBN: 0 262 69286 4 600pp US$39.95 (pb) (Review copy…

Denise Lowe, An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930. Binghampton NY: Haworth Press, 2005 ISBN: 978 0 7890 1842 7 US$69.95 (hb) ISBN: 978 0 7890 1843 4 US$49.95…

David Ingram, Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema. Exeter, Devon: University of Exeter. 2004 ISBN: 0 85989 608 0 £39.50 (hb) ISBN: 0 85989 609 9 £14.99 (pb) 240 pp (Review…

Kevin Heffernan, Ghouls, Gimmicks and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004 ISBN: 0 82233 215 9 304pp US$22.95 (pb) (Review copy…

Julianne Pidduck, Contemporary Costume Film: Space, Place and the Past. London: BFI, 2004. ISBN: 1 84457 054 1 188pp US$27.50 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI Publishing) Costume film is…

Felicity Collins and Therese Davis, Australian Cinema after Mabo. Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0 521 54256 1 204pp AU$39.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Cambridge University Press) The power…

Charlie Keil & Shelly Stamp (ed.), American Cinema's Transitional Era. Audiences, Institutions, Practices. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 520 24025 1 US$60.00 (hb) ISBN: 0 520 24027…

Jim Kitses, Horizons West: Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood. London: BFI Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 1 84457 050 9 360pp US $24.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by…

John Gibbs & Douglas Pye (eds), Style and Meaning: Studies in the Detailed Analysis of Film. Manchester University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0719065259 250 pp AUS$54.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by…

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…

Parsing The Perverse Pamela Church Gibson, More Dirty Looks: Gender, Pornography and Power. London: British Film Institute, 2004. ISBN: 0851709397 (pb) £16.99 ISBN: 0851709362 (hb) £55.00 360pp (Review copy supplied…

Gabrielle Murray, This Wounded Cinema, this Wounded Lfe: Violence and Utopia in the Films of Sam Peckinpah. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. ISBN: 0 275 98058 8 176pp US$89.95 (hb) (Review…

Barbara Creed, Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2003. ISBN: 1 86508 926 5 216pp AU$35.00 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Allen & Unwin) Film…

Larry Ceplair & Steven Englund, The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-60. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2003. ISBN: 0 252 07141 7 576pp US$24.95 (pb) (Review…

Matthew C. Ehrlich, Journalism in the Movies. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004. ISBN 0 252 02934 8 208pp US$35.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by University of Illinois…

Charles Acland, Screen Traffic, Movies, Multiplexes and Gobal Culture. London: Duke University Press. 2003 ISBN: 0 82233 163 2 320pp US$22.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) In Screen…

Jeanette Steemers, Selling Television. British Television in the Global Marketplace. London: BFI Publishing, 2004 ISBN: 1 84457-055-x (pb) ISBN 1-84457-022-3 (hb) 240pp U.K £15.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI…

John Sinclair and Graeme Turner (eds), Contemporary World Television. London: British Film Institute, 2004. ISBN: 1 84457 010 X 204 pp £15.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI Publishing) When…

Irving Singer, Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England: The MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 262 19501 1279 pp US$32.95 (hb) (Review copy supplied by MIT…

Christine Acham, Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power. University of Minnesota Press. 2004. ISBN: 0 8166 4432 2 $18.95 (pb) ISBN: 0 8166 4431 4 $24.95…

Beyond the finale of seem Joshua Clover, The Matrix. (BFI Modern Classics) London: BFI Publishing. 2004. ISBN: 1 84457 045 2 95pp UK£8.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI Publishing) Joshua…

Glyn Davis & Kay Dickinson (eds), Teen TV: Genre, Consumption and Identity. London: British Film Institute, 2004. ISBN: 0 85170 999 0 197pp £14.99stg. (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI…

Jonathan Rosenbaum & Adrian Martin (eds.) Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia. London: BFI, 2003. ISBN: 0 85170 984 2 (pb) £15.99 ISBN: 0 85170 983 4 (hb)…

David Thomson, The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. ISBN: 0 375 40016 8 416pp U.S. $27.95 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Alfred A. Knopf) David…

The way we were Vanessa Toulmin, Simon Popple & Patrick Russell, The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film. London: BFI, 2004. ISBN: 1844570460 £15.99 (pb) ISBN:…

Erica Carter, Dietrich’s Ghosts: The Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film. London: BFI Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 0 8517 0882 X £48.00 (hb) ISBN: 0 8517 0883 8 £16.99…

S. S. Prawer, Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht. London: BFI Publishing. 2004. ISBN: 1 84457 031 2 96pp £8.99stg (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI publishing) Bloodsuckers, nightbreed, stalkers of the…

Kevin Jackson, Withnail & I. (BFI Modern Classics). London: BFI Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 1 84457 035 5 96pp (Book supplied by BFI Publishing) What is one to say about a…