Author Archive for: ‘Adam Knee’

Martin Rubin, Thrillers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-58839-1, 319 pp, A$33.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Cambridge University Press) Jonathan Munby, Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. ISBN 0-226-55033-8, 263pp, US$16.00 (Review copy supplied by University of Chicago Press) Uploaded 1 November 2000 The “thriller” is perhaps one …

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 Critical Introduction stands as a welcome addition to the field of science fiction overviews, one which more complements rather than replicates or competes with the relatively few other up-to-date monographs. …

Andrew Higson & Richard Maltby, “Film Europe” and ” Film America”: Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1920-1939. University of Exeter Press, 1999. ISBN 0 85989 545 9 (hb) ISBN 0 85989 546 7 (pb) 47.50 stg (hb) 20.00 stg (pb) 406pp. (Review copy supplied by University of Exeter Press) Uploaded 1 March 2000 “Film Europe” and ” Film America”: Cinema, …

Larry May, The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. ISBN 0 226 51162 6 348pp US$32.60 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Chicago University Press) Uploaded 20 September 2002 In The Big Tomorrow, Larry May makes the case that certain “traditional” American values often associated with the films of the Hollywood studio …