Philip C. Logan, Humphrey Jennings and British Documentary Film: A Re-Assessment Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-7546-6726-1 £70.00 (hb) 375 pp (Review copy supplied by Ashgate publishers) This…
David Martin-Jones Deleuze and World Cinemas London: New York; Continuum, 2011 ISBN: 9780826436429 US$34.95 (pb) 288pp (Review copy supplied by Continuum publishers) The reception of Deleuze’s Cinéma books in academia…
Gaetano Rando and Gino Moliterno, Celluloid Immigrant: Italian Australian Filmmaker Giorgio Mangiamele (The Moving Image Number 10, 2011) St.Kilda: ATOM and The National Film and Sound Archive, 2011. ISBN: ISBN:…
Sylvia Shin Huey Chong, The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-8223-4854-2 US$26.95 (pb) 364pp (Review copy supplied…
Martha Ansara, The Shadowcatchers: a history of cinematography in Australia Austcine Publishing, Sydney 2012 ISBN: 9780987225214 Au$66.00 (pb) 288pp http://www.shadowcatchers.com.au/ (Review copy supplied by Australian cinematographers society) Cinematography captures images,…
Paola Voci, China on Video: Smaller-screen realities New York: Routledge, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-415-46452-9 US$140 (hb) 259pp (Review copy supplied by Routledge) Twelve years into the 21st Century, most members of…
Steven Rybin, Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2012. ISBN 978-0-7391-6675-8 US$65 (hb) 236pp (Review copy supplied by Lexington books) For a filmmaker renowned for…
John Markert, Post - 9/11 Cinema: Through a Lens Darkly The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-8108-8134-1 US$59.95 (hb) 392pp (Review copy supplied by The Scarecrow Press) Should we expect…
Felicity Colman, Deleuze and Cinema: The Film Concepts Oxford; New York: Berg, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-84788-053-6 US$29.95 (pb) 280pp (Review copy supplied by Berg) Felicity Colman’s Deleuze and Cinema: The Film…
Kyung Hyun Kim, Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2011 ISBN978-0-8223-5101-6 US$24.95(pb) 256pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Kyung Hyun…
Part 3c[1] Introduction to Part 3c [Young Mr Lincoln (1939)] [Drums Along The Mohawk (1939)] [The Grapes of Wrath (1940)] Tobacco Road (1941) - The question of mode - The…
Michele Pierson, David E. James, Paul Arthur (eds.), Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 ISBN-13: 978-0195384987 US$39.95 (pb) 312pp (Review copy…
A Review Essay on Chris Dumas, Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible (London: Intellect, 2012) [I]t’s not really a book about De Palma, it’s a book about…
Marcelline Block (ed.), World Film Locations: Paris London: Intellect, 2012 ISBN: 9781841505619 US$19.00 (pb) 128pp (Review copy supplied by Intellect) As Keith Reader explains in the opening essay to Intellect’s…
Gabriel Solomons (ed), World Film Locations: Los Angeles London: Intellect Books, 2011, ISBN-978-1-84150-485-8 US$18 (pb), 128ppNeil Mitchell (ed), World Film Locations: London London: Intellect Books, 2011, ISBN-978-1-84150-484-1 US$18 (pb), 136pp(Review…
Wayne Koestenbaum, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780520269019 US$29.95 (pb) 336pp (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) This is an eccentric,…