Category Archive for: ‘Issue 5 – Reviews’
Cinema and Architecture: Melies, Mallet-stevens, Multimedia
Francois Penz & Maureen Thomas (eds). Cinema and Architecture: Melies, Mallet-stevens, Multimedia London: British Film Institute Publishing, 1997. ISBN: 0-85170-578-2 212pp AU $49.95 Uploaded 21 December 1998 The British film institute’s publication of Cinema and Architecture caught my eye, some time before I was asked to review it. As an architect, I have always been intrigued, if the truth be told, envious …
Read MoreMemory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberculture
Darren Tofts & Murray McKeich . Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberculture NSW: Interface, 1998. 90 5704 18 12, 131 pp AU$29.95 Uploaded 18 December 1998 In his video Scénario du film Passion (1982), Jean-Luc Godard tells a story about the birth of an aspect of cinema history – in particular, an aspect of the business of film, its industry. Godard evokes …
Read MoreInterpreting the Moving Image
Noël Carroll, Interpreting the Moving Image Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998. ISBN 0 521 58039 0 (cloth) ISBN 0 521 58970 3 (paper), 370pp. Uploaded 18 December 1998 This collection of Noël Carroll’s critical writings stands as a companion to his 1996 collection of theoretical essays, Theorizing the Moving Image. It contains 24 essays published between 1973 and 1990 in anthologies …
Read MoreScreen Scores: Studies in Contemporary Australian film music
Rebecca Coyle (ed). Screen Scores: Studies in Contemporary Australian film music Sydney: AFTRS 1998. ISBN: 1 876351 00 4 Uploaded 18 December 1998 Despite a growing body of scholarship on the broad subject of film music, much of it talks about the subject in the trans-national sense. Little addresses the matter of individual nations and individual national cinemas, unless those …
Read MoreThe Death of Broadcasting: Media’s Digital Future
Jock Given, The Death of Broadcasting: Media’s Digital Future. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999. ISBN: 0 86840 449 7 AU $9.95 Uploaded 18 December 1998 Digitisation is the buzz word of the nineties. While most attention has been focussed on the Internet, the old media are being transformed. First, publishers embraced cold type and this led to …
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