Author Archive for: ‘Gerald Sim’

Ryan Gilbey, Groundog Day. London: BFI publishing, 2004. ISBN: 1 84457 032 0 96 pp UK£8.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI publishing) On a certain level, one can hardly disagree with the Sunday Times when it declared years ago that the Film Classics series is “one of the best ideas BFI Publishing has had.” These books are irresistible collector’s items designed …

Lisa Parks, Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual. Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 8223 3461 5 US$79.95 (hb) ISBN: 0 8223 3497 6 US$22.95 (pb) 256pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) In “pre-reading” Cultures in Orbit, that inevitable anticipatory process in the imagination where one uses the title and synopsis to project the contents and arguments of …

Christine Acham, Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power. University of Minnesota Press. 2004. ISBN: 0 8166 4432 2 $18.95 (pb) ISBN: 0 8166 4431 4 $24.95 (hb) 284pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) Historicizing popular culture as Christine Acham does in Revolution Televised is a more difficult proposition than it seems. On the one hand, …

Albert Moran and Errol Vieth, Historical dictionary of Australian and New Zealand cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 810 85459 7 432pp Au$80 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Scarecrow Press) Addressing the topic of Australian cinema is a task fraught with difficulty. Judging from the currently available histories of Australian cinema, it is de rigueur for any project of the …

Jane Park, Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4980-8 US $25.00 (pb) 272pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) As a study about race, ethnicity and films, Jane Park’s Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema has much to both admire and be interested in. The study is methodologically distinctive …

Takayuki Tatsumi, Full Metal Apache: Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America. Duke University Press, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3774-4 US$22.95 (pb) 272pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Full Metal Apache is not a book about Japanese cinema for two reasons. Literally speaking, it is more accurately a work about Japanese national discourse, culture and identity. Takayuki Tatsumi’s meditations on the …