Author Archive for: ‘David Ehrenstein’

Colin Gardner, Joseph Losey. British Film Makers, Manchester University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 7190 6782 0 (hb) £47.50 ISBN: 0 7190 6783 9 (pb) £15.99 328pp (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press) When a series of critical studies announces its aim to “present in lively, authoritative volumes a guide to those film-makers who have made British cinema a rewarding …

Chris Fujiwara, Jerry Lewis (Contemporary Film Directors). University of Illinois Press, 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0252076794 US$19.95 (pb) 176pp (Review copy supplied by University of Illinois Press) This brief but pithy volume increases the count of English language books about the films of Jerry Lewis to One. Lewis’ own books The Total Filmmaker(1971), and his memoirs Jerry Lewis: In Person (1982) and Dean and Me (A Love …

James Morrison (ed.), The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All That Heaven Allows. London; New York: Wallflower Press, 2006. ISBN: 978 1 904764 77 9 US$25.00 (pb) 224pp (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press) Ordinarily a book of theoretically-besotted essays on the cinema offers little more than a long dull slog through the painfully obvious. You don’t have to have read …

Jonathan Rosenbaum & Adrian Martin (eds.), Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia. London: BFI Publishing. 2003. ISBN: 0851709842 (pb): £15.99 ISBN: 0851709834 (hb) £48.00 224 pp (Review copy supplied by BFI publishing) Two declarations stand out right at the start. “The Cinemas of Asia and the Middle East have, over the past decade, assumed a prominence in world …

Vincent Kaufmann, Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry  University of Minnesota Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-8166-4456-8 US$25.00 (pb) 368 pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) “The Society of the Spectacle is beyond criticism. It is a book in which everything that needs to be said has been said. It is the book, or the book. Debord’s …

Marcie Frank, How to be an Intellectual in the Age of TV: The Lessons of Gore Vidal. Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 8223 3640 5 176pp US$17.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) The City, the Pillar and the Cathode Ray We know we’re off to a good start when right at the top author Marcie Frank …