Sharon Lin Tay, Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-230-21776-8 US$80.00 (hb) 208pp (Review copy supplied by Palgrave Macmillan) Contemporary feminist media scholarship is…
Natalie King (ed.), Up Close: Carol Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William Yang. Melbourne: Heide Museum of Modern Art/Schwartz City, 2010. ISBN: 9 78186395 501 0 AU$59.95 (pb)…
Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Hollywood Catwalk: Exploring Costume and Transformation in American Film. London: I.B. Tauris, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1848850408 US$28.00 (pb) 256pp (Review copy supplied by I.B. Tauris) Tamar Jeffers McDonald’s…
Robin Visser, Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010 ISBN: 978 0 8223 4728 6 US$24.95 384pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University…
Linda Aronson, The 21st Century Screenplay. Allen and Unwin, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-74237-136-8 Au$49.99 (pb) 512pp (Review copy supplied by Allen & Unwin) Patrick McGilligan, Backstory 5: Interviews with Screenwriters of…
Christopher Shannon, Bowery to Broadway: The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema. University of Scranton Press, Scranton & London, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-58966-200-1 US$25.00 (hb) 220pp (Review copy supplied by Scranton…
Peter Verstraten (translated by Stefan van der Lecq), Film Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009 ISBN-13: 978 080209 505 3 US$27.95 (pb) 259pp…
Amy Herzog, Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8166-6088-9 US$25.000 (pb) 296pp (Review copy supplied by University…
George Kouvaros, Famous Faces Not Yet Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4747-7 US$24.95 (pb) 304pp (Review copy supplied by University…
Reynold Humphries, Hollywood’s Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-7486-2456-0 UK£19.99 (pb) 184pp (Review copy supplied by Edinburgh University Press) Fear and anxiety loomed…
Jeongwon Joe and Sander L. Gilman (eds), Wagner and Cinema. Indiana University Press, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22163-6 US$27.95 (pb) 504pp (Review copy supplied by Indiana University Press) The scholarly book Wagner…
Brian McFarlane, Real and Reel: The Education of a Film Obsessive. Glen Waverley: Sid Harta Publishers, 2010 ISBN: 1-921642-58-0 AU$29.95 (pb) 187pp (Review copy supplied by Sid Harta Publishers) There’s…
Barbara Hammer, Hammer! Making Movies out of Sex and Life. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York. ISBN 9 781558616 12 7 Au$19.95 (pb) 281pp…