Thomas Doherty, Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. ISBN 0 231 11094 4 430 pp. A$37.95 Uploaded 1 March 2000 In the…
In the 1950s the Australian public had little or no interest in supporting an Australian film industry. In fact, as Lee Robinson remarked some years later in an interview with…
Peter Stanfield, Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s: The Lost Trail. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2001. ISBN: 0 85989 694 3 (pb) £18.99 ISBN: 0 85989 693 5 (hb) £47.50 272pp…
Ben Singer, Melodrama and Modernity. Early Sensational Cinema and its Contexts. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001 ISBN: 0 231 113293 256 pp US$24.50 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Columbia University…
Chris Fujiwara, Jacques Tourneur.The Cinema of Nightfall. John Hopkins University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0801865611 344pp US$18.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by John Hopkins University Press) Uploaded 20 September 2002 I…
Robert Murphy (ed) The British Cinema Book London: BFI, 1997. ISBN 0-85170-641-X. 279pp. A$39.95 (paper) Uploaded 16 April 1999 British director Stephen Frears, in his affirmation of British cinema in…
Jeffrey Richards, A Night to Remember: The Definitive Titanic Film. London, I.B. Tauris, 2003. ISBN: 1 86064 849 5 136pp £2.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by I.B. Tauris) Jeffrey Richards loves…