Michael M. J. Fischer responds to Thomas Redwood’s review of: Michael M. J. Fischer, Mute Dreams, Blind Owls and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry. Durham & London: Duke…
Richard Abel, Americanizing the Movies and “Movie Mad” Audiences: 1910-1914. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. ISBN: 978 0 520 24742 0 (hb) US$65.00 ISBN: 978 0 520 24743 7…
Peter Decherney, Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 231 13377 4 US$19 (pb) 269pp (Review copy supplied by…
Serge Daney, Postcards from the Cinema. Oxford, New York: Berg Publishers, 2007. (Translated by Paul Grant, First published in France, 1994, P.O.L.) ISBN: 978 1 84520 651 2 £12.00 (pb)…
John Bodnar, Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0 8018 7149 2 $US25.00 (pb) 284pp (Review copy supplied…
Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and Darrell William Davis, Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 231 12898 3 (hb) US$69.50 ISBN: 0 231 12899…
Jane Landman, The Tread of a White Man’s Foot: Australian Pacific Colonialism and the Cinema, 1925-62. Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2006. ISBN:…
Cahiers du Cinéma presents The Hollywood Interviews. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006. ISBN: 9 7818 452044 19 £9.99 (pb) 151pp (Review copy supplied by Berg publshers) This book serves no…
Thomas Elsaesser, European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood. Amsterdam University Press, 2005. ISBN: 978 90 5356 594 0 (pb) US$32.50 ISBN: 978 90 5356 602 2 (hb) US$80.50 566pp…
Marnie Hughes-Warrington, History Goes to the Movies: Studying History on Film. Abingdon: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 0 415 32827 6 (hb) US$90 ISBN: 0 415 32828 4 (pb) US$28.95 218pp (Review…
Jo Fox, Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II Cinema. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2007. ISBN: 9 7818 597389 62 £17.99 (pb) 368pp (Review copy supplied…
Alice Rayner, Ghosts: Death’s Double and the Phenomenon of Theatre. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 8166 4545 0 $US22.50 (pb) 207pp (Review copy supplied by University of…
Robert Brent Toplin, Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11: How one film divided a nation. University of Kansas Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 7006 1452 4 US$34.95 (hb) 162pp (Review copy supplied by…
Scott McMillin, The Musical as Drama. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 691 12730 1 US$24.95 (hb) 248pp (Review copy supplied by Princeton University Press) Scott McMillin’s The…
Lester D. Friedman, Citizen Spielberg. University of Illinois Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 25203114 8 (hb) US$75.00 ISBN: 0 25207358 4 (pb) US$24.95 376pp (Review copy supplied by University of Illinois…
Rosalind Galt, Redrawing the Map: The New European Cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 231 13717 6 US$24.50 (pb) 352pp (Review copy supplied by Columbia University Press)…
Nicholas Haeffner, Alfred Hitchcock. Harlow, England: Pearson Education Limited, 2005. ISBN: 0 582 43738 5 US$14.95 (pb) 125pp (Review copy supplied by Pearson Education Limited) Hitchcock's cameo appearance in Lifeboat (US 1944)…
Yvonne Rainer, Feelings are Facts: A Life. MIT Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 262 18251 3 US$37.95 (hb) 504pp (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) Feelings are Facts gives all the usual…
Murray Pomerance (ed.), Cinema and Modernity. Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. ISBN: 0 8135 3816 5 US$24.95 (pb) 373pp (Review copy supplied by Rutgers University Press) Edited collections of…
Annalee Newitz, Pretend we’re Dead. Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 8223 3745 2 US$21.95 (pb) 223pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University…
Geoffrey Cocks, James Diedrick, Glenn Perusek (eds), Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick Film, and the Uses of History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. ISBN 0 299 21610 1 (hb)…
Daniel Goldmark, Tunes for ‘Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon. University of California Press, 2005 ISBN: 0 520 23617 3 US$40.00 (hb) 225pp (Review copy supplied by University of California…
Douglas Morrey, Jean-Luc Godard. Manchester University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 7190 6759 6 (pb) £14.99 304pp (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press) In its essentials, my experience with Godard…
Paul Young, The Cinema Dreams its Rivals: Media Fantasy Films from Radio to the Internet. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 8166 3599 4 ISBN-13: 978 0 8166…
Gabrielle Murray, This Wounded Cinema, this Wounded life: Violence and Utopia in the Films of Sam Peckinpah. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2004. ISBN: 0 2759805 88 US$89.95 (hb) 176pp All they…
Alexander R. Galloway, Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 8166 4851 US$17.95 (pb) 168pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) In…
Valeria Belletti, Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s. (Ed. and annotated by Cari Beauchamp.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. ISBN:…
David A. Gerstner, Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 8 223377 54 (hb) £58.00 ISBN: 0 8 223376…
David Martin-Jones, Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity: Narrative Time in National Contexts. Edinburgh University Press, 2006. ISBN: 10 0 7486 2244 6 US$85 (hb) 244pp (Review copy supplied by Edinburgh…
Zhang Zhen, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. ISBN: 0-226-98237-8 (hb) US$75 ISBN: 0-226-98238-6 (pb) US$30 488pp (Review copy supplied…
David West, Chasing Dragons: An Introduction to the Martial Arts Film. London, New York: I. B. Tauris, 2006. ISBN: 978 1 85043 982 0 £12.99 (pb) 272pp (Review copy supplied…
Wheeler Winston Dixon (ed.), American Cinema of the 1940s: Themes and Variations. Oxford: Berg, 2006. ISBN: 9781845204358 £14.99 (pb) 283pp (Review copy supplied by Berg) As the title suggests, Wheeler…
Kathrina Glitre, Hollywood Romantic Comedy: States of the Union, 1934-65. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 7190 7079 1 US$27.95 (pb) 199pp (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press)…