Author Archive for: ‘Jonathan Auerbach’

The Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema

Laurent Mannoni, The Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema. Translated and edited by Richard Crangle. Exeter Studies in Film History: University of Exeter Press, 2000. ISBN: 0 85989 665 X (pb) 512pp £25.00 (Review copy supplied by University of Exeter Press) Uploaded 1 December 2001 Mannoni’s big, handsome, well-illustrated book offers a long history of the …

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Twilight of the Idols

Mark Lynn Anderson,  Twilight of the Idols  University of California Press, 2011 ISBN: 9780520267084 US24.95 (pb) 238pp (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) The recent trend in cinema studies to “look past the screen” has occasioned all kinds of interesting work on distribution, exhibition, regulation, reception, and star studies taken in their own right, not just as supplements …

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