Jean Cocteau
James S. Williams, Jean Cocteau. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 7190 5883 X 223pp £40.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press) Jean Cocteau's contribution to the…
The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic
Will Brooker (ed), The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic. Wallflower Press, London & New York, 2005. ISBN: 1 904764 30 4 240pp £16.99 (pb) (Review…
Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment
Angela Ndalianis, Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment. Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 262 14084 5 336pp US$18.95 (pb) Without knowing what form it would take…
Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures
Alexander Nemerov, Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures. Berkeley: California University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0-520-24100-2 213pp US$24.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) Lately there…
The Parallax View
Slavoj Zizek, The Parallax View. Cambridge Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 262 24051 3 528pp US$24.95 (hb) (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) My dream is to combine an…
The Barry McKenzie Movies
Tony Moore, The Barry McKenzie Movies. Currency Press: Australian Film Commission National Film and Sound Archive, 2005. ISBN: 0 86819 748 3 86pp Au$16.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Currency…
Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early Twentieth-Century America
Lee Grieveson, Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early Twentieth-Century America. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004. ISBN: 978 0 520 239661 361pp US$24.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University…
The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
Louis Chude-Sokei, The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. ISBN 0 8223 3643 x US$22.95 (pb) 304pp (Review copy…
Film Fables
Jacques Rancière, Film Fables. (Translated by Emiliano Battista) Oxford & New York: Berg Publishers, 2006. ISBN: 1 8452 0168 X £16.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Berg Publishers) Readers familiar…
The Cinema of France
Phil Powrie (ed), The Cinema of France. (24 frames series) Wallflower Press, London, 2006. 288pp ISBN: 1 904764 46 0 (pb) £18.99 ISBN: 1 904764 47 9 (hb) £45.00 (Review…
Sheep and the Australian Cinema
Deb Verhoeven, Sheep and the Australian Cinema. Melbourne University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 522 85240 8 317pp Au$49.95 (pb) Au$39.95 (eBook) (Review copy supplied by Melbourne University Press) This writer's…
Alain Resnais
Emma Wilson, Alain Resnais. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 7190 6406 6 240pp £40.00 (hb) Marja Warehime, Maurice Pialat, Manchester and New York: Manchester University…
J. P. McGowan: Biography of a Hollywood Pioneer
John J. McGowan, J. P. McGowan: Biography of a Hollywood Pioneer. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2005. ISBN: 0 7864 1994 6 220pp $US39.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by McFarland…
Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation
Andrew Klevan, Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation. (Short Cuts series) London and New York: Wallflower Press, 2005. ISBN: 1 904764 24 X 128pp £12.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by…
Gore Vidal’s America
Dennis Altman, Gore Vidal's America. Cambridge, U.K: Polity Press. ISBN: 0 7465 3363 3 216pp 14.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Polity Press) Someone told me recently that software is…
Imitation of Life
Fannie Hurst, Imitation of Life. Edited and introduced by Daniel Itzkovitz Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 8223 3324 4 352pp US$19.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Duke University…
Cinephilia: Movies, Love and Memory
Marijke de Valck and Malte Hagener (eds), Cinephilia: Movies, Love and Memory. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005. ISBN: 90 5356 768 2 236pp US$33.25 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Amsterdam…
Ether: The Nothing that Connects Everything
Joe Milutis, Ether: The Nothing that Connects Everything. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 8166 4644 9 208 pp. US$ 29.95 (hb) (Review copy supplied by…
The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons
Samantha Barbas, The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 520 24213 0 417pp US$29.95 (hb) (Review…
Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir
Sheri Chinen Biesen, Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 8018 82218 4 243pp US$20 (pb) (Review copy supplied…
Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film
Jeffrey Skoller, Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film. Minneapolis MN, University of Minnesota University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 8166 4232 X 232pp US$25.00 (pb) (Review copy supplied by…
Re-takes: Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages
John Mowitt, Re-takes: Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 8166 2891 2 246pp US$23.50 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press)…
Herr Lubitsch goes to Hollywood. German and American film after World War 1
Kristin Thompson, Herr Lubitsch goes to Hollywood. German and American film after World War 1. Amsterdam University Press, 2005. ISBN: 90 5356 708 9 154pp US$33.25 (pb) (Review copy supplied…
Hollywood Behind the Wall. The Cinema of East Germany
Daniela Berghahn, Hollywood Behind the Wall. The Cinema of East Germany. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005. ISBN: 1 7190 6172 5 294pp £16.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Manchester University…
The Direct Cinema of David and Albert Maysles
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…
Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value and the MGM Musical
Steven Cohan, Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value and the MGM Musical. Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 8223 3595 6 US$23.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Steven…
Unsettling Scores: German Film, Music, and Ideology
Roger Hillman, Unsettling Scores: German Film, Music, and Ideology. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 2 53 21754 7 219pp US$19.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Indiana…
Silent film sound
Rick Altman, Silent film sound, New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 231 11662 4 462pp US$50 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Columbia University Press) There's a seeming simplicity…
Hitchcock’s cryptonymies.
Tom Cohen, Hitchcock's cryptonymies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. (In two volumes) Vol. I, Secret Agents, 284pp, ISBN: 0 8166 4206 0 (pb) US$25 Vol. II, War Machines, 300pp, ISBN: 0…
Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster
Warren Buckland, Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006. ISBN: 0 8264 1691 8 242pp US$19.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Continuum)…
10
Geoff Andrew, 10. London: BFI Publishing, 2005. ISBN: 1 844 57069 X 88pp £9.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI publications) Few films seem as wholeheartedly concerned with "America", in…
How to be an Intellectual in the Age of TV: The Lessons of Gore Vidal
Marcie Frank, How to be an Intellectual in the Age of TV: The Lessons of Gore Vidal. Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 8223 3640 5 176pp US$17.95 (pb) (Review…
Historical dictionary of Australian and New Zealand cinema
Albert Moran and Errol Vieth, Historical dictionary of Australian and New Zealand cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 810 85459 7 432pp Au$80 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Scarecrow Press)…
Buffy the vampire slayer & Why Buffy matters: The art of Buffy the vampire slayer & Reading Angel: The tv spin-off with a soul
Anne Billson, Buffy the vampire slayer. London: British Film Institute, 2005. ISBN: 1 8445 7089 4, 192pp, £9 (pb). (Review copy supplied by BFI publications) Rhonda Wilcox, Why Buffy matters:…
Virtual voyages: Cinema and travel
Jeffrey Ruoff (ed), Virtual voyages: Cinema and travel. Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2006. ISBN: 0 8223 3713 4 298pp US$22.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press)…
Surrealism and cinema
Michael Richardson, Surrealism and cinema. Oxford: Berg, 2006. ISBN: 1 84520 226 0 202pp £14.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Berg publications) Michael Richardson's Surrealism and cinema addresses misconceptions about surrealism and…
Lara Croft: Cyber Heroine
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, Lara Croft: Cyber Heroine. Unversity of Minnesota Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 8166 4391 1 US$17.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) Game studies represents one…
Film Remakes
Constantine Verevis, Film Remakes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 7486 2186 5 (hb) £45.00 ISBN: 0 7486 2187 3 (pb) £16.99 198pp (Review copy supplied by Edinburgh University…
Hitchcock and Twentieth Century Cinema
John Orr, Hitchcock and Twentieth Century Cinema. Wallflower Press, 2005. ISBN: 1 904764 55 X 224pp £16.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press) Harold Bloom, the prolific and eccentric…
The Office
Ben Walters, The Office. London: BFI, 2005. ISBN: 1 84457 091 6 184pp £12 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI publications) The Office has already proved itself a significant sitcom, which…
China on Screen: Cinema and Nation
Chris Berry & Mary Farquhar, China on Screen: Cinema and Nation. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 231 13707 9 336pp US$26.00 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Columbia…
100 Anime
Philip Brophy, 100 Anime. London: BFI publishing. ISBN: 1 8445 7084 3 272pp £12 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI publishing) Anyone familiar with Philip Brophy's fascinating work on Body…
Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame
Anne Tereska Ciecko (ed), Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame. New York: Berg, 2006. ISBN: 1 845 20237 6 250pp US$29.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Berg…
Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture
Michael Kackman, Citizen Spy: Television, Espionage, and Cold War Culture Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 8166 3829 2 280pp US$18.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of…
Big Screen Rome
Monica Silveira Cyrino, Big Screen Rome. Blackwell Publishing, 2005. ISBN: 1405116846 288pp Au$54.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Blackwell Publishing) In Big Screen Rome, classical historian Monica Silveira Cyrino combines her…
Mute dreams, blind owls and dispersed knowledges: Persian poesis in the transnational circuitry
Michael M. J. Fischer, Mute dreams, blind owls and dispersed knowledges: Persian poesis in the transnational circuitry. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 8223 3298 1 475pp…
Backstory 4: Interviews with screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s
Patrick McGilligan (ed), Backstory 4: Interviews with screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 520 21518 0 424pp US$24.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied…
The big show: British cinema culture in the Great War 1914-1918
Michael Hammond, The big show: British cinema culture in the Great War 1914-1918. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 85989 758 3 304pp £45 (hb) (Review copy supplied…