Author Archive for: ‘Andrew Spicer’

David A. Gerstner, Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 8 223377 54 (hb) £58.00 ISBN: 0 8 223376 30 (pb) £14.99 332pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Most studies of masculinity and cinema tend to concentrate on the textual representation of male characters in the films …

Vicki Mayer, Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-8223-5007-1 US$22.95(pb) 242pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) There has been a resurgent interest in media production studies recently, one that has significantly redirected attention away from macro studies of patterns of ownership and consumption towards …

Geoff Mayer, Roy Ward Baker. British Film Makers Series, Manchester University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 7190 6354 X 224pp £45.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press) Roy Ward Baker (or Roy Baker, he added the middle name when he returned to directing in 1967), was one of a number of talented directors working in the post-war British film …