Kent L. Brintnall, Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-In-Pain as Redemptive Figure Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2011 ISBN: 9 780 226074702 US$32.50 (pb). 256pp (Review copy supplied by The…
Murray Forman, One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television Duke University Press: Durham & London, 2012 ISBN: 978-082235011-8 US$27.95 (pb) 424pp (Review…
Paul Grainge (ed.), Ephemeral Media: Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube British Film Institute, Palgrave Macmillan 2011 ISBN: 978184457434 US$24.95 (pb) 248pp (Review copy supplied by Palgrave Macmillan) Collected…
May Adadol Ingawanij and Benjamin McKay (eds.), Glimpses of Freedom: Independent Cinema in Southeast Asia. Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, Ithaca, New York, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-87727-755-2 US$23.50 (pb) 239 pp…
Olivier Assayas, A Post-May Adolescence: A letter to Alice Debord (Translated and annotated by Adrian Martin and Rachel Zerner) Vienna: Austrian Film Museum publishers, 2012 ISBN: 978-3-901644-44-3 Euro: 14,00 (pb)…
Sir Christopher Frayling, Sergio Leone Something To Do With Death (reprint edition) University of Minnesota Press, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4683-8 US $24.95 (pb) 592pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota…
Keith M. Johnston, Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction Berg Publishers, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-84788-476-3 US$29.95 (pb) 197pp (Review copy supplied by Bloomsbury Publishing) Keith M. Johnston’s Science Fiction Film: A…
Laurie N. Ede, British Film Design: A History London: I.B. Tauris, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1848851085 £15.99 (pb) 248pp (Review copy supplied by I.B. Tauris) A Himalayan convent created in mountainous Pinewood;…
Robert Sinnerbrink, New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images Continuum, 2012 ISBN: 978-144115343-2 US$36.99 (pb) 264pp (Review copy supplied by Bloomsbury Publishing) Robert Sinnerbrink's New Philosophies of Film is an introduction…
Kent Jones (ed.), Olivier Assayas Austrian Film Museum, 2012 ISBN: 978-3-901644-436 US$30.00 (pb) 256pp (Review copy supplied by the Austrian Film Museum) In the chapter on L’Heure d’été (Summer Hours,…
Dan Callahan, The Miracle Woman Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012 ISBN13: 978-1617031830 US$35 (hb) 272pp In one of her more direct moments, Barbara Stanwyck has said, “Acting is as…
Bill Nichols & Michael Renov (eds.), Cinema’s Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011 ISBN: 0816648751 $US27.00 (pb) 320 pp (Review copy supplied by…
Ramon Lobato, Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution London: British Film Institute/Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-84457-411-7 US$85 (hb) 176pp (Review copy supplied by Palgrave Macmillan) Ramon Lobato opens…
James Walters, Fantasy Film: A Critical Introduction Berg publishers, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-84788-308-7 US$29.95 (pb) 153pp (Review copy supplied by Berg publishers) Fantasy Film is a book written in the light…
Martin Botha, South African Cinema 1896-2010 Bristol: Intellect, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-84150-458-2 US$50.00 (pb) 307pp (Review copy supplied by Intellect) “Taking an inclusive approach to South African film history, this volume…
Justus Nieland, David Lynch University of Illinois Press, Chicago, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-252-07851-4 US$22.00 (pb) 194 pp (Review copy supplied by University of Illinois Press) The films of David Lynch have…
Karl Schoonover, The Neorealist body in Postwar Italian cinema University of Minnesota Press, 2012 ISBN-13: 978-0816675555 US$25 (pb) 328pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) The scholarship on Italian…
Jane Mills, Jedda Currency Press, 2012 ISBN: 9780-86819-920-7 Au$16.95 (pb) 89pp (Review copy supplied by Currency Press) This ‘little book’ Jedda contains big ideas, conflicting ideas, ideas from the past…
Joshua Yumibe, Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism Rutgers University Press, New York, 2012. ISBN: 978-081355 2972 US$29.95(pb) 230pp (Review copy supplied by Rutgers University Press) Joshua Yumibe’s Moving…
Adrienne Munich(ed.) Fashion in Film Indiana University Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-253-22299-2 US$27.95(pb) 376pp (Review copy supplied by Indiana University Press) This is a joyful discovery: Fashion in Film, edited by…
Raymond Foery, Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece. Maryland and Plymouth: Scarecrow Press, Inc. ISBN 9780810877559 US $40.00 (hb) 187pp (Review copy supplied by Scarecrow Press) Alfred Hitchcock returned to…
Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis (eds.),. Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches Palgrave MacMillan, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-230-25031-4 US$80(hb) 264pp (Review copy supplied by Palgrave Macmillan) At a time when franchise films…
Miriam Bratu Hansen, Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodore Adorno University of California Press, 2012 ISBN: 978-05202656-08 US$29.95(pb) 408pp (Review copy supplied by University of California Press)…