Author Archive for: ‘Lynn Smailes’

Gabriel Solomons (ed), World Film Locations: Los Angeles London: Intellect Books, 2011, ISBN-978-1-84150-485-8 US$18 (pb), 128ppNeil Mitchell (ed), World Film Locations: London London: Intellect Books, 2011, ISBN-978-1-84150-484-1 US$18 (pb), 136pp(Review copies supplied by Intellect Publishing)   According to Gabriel Solomons, the series editor of World Film Locations and editor of the volume devoted to Los Angeles, “[w]hether as an elaborate …

Steven Mintz and Randy W. Roberts (eds.), Hollywood’s America: Twentieth Century America Through Film (Fourth Edition). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-4051-9003-9 AU$47.95 (pb) 370pp (Review copy supplied by Wiley-Blackwell publishers) “Anyone who wishes to know about the twentieth-century United States would do well to go to the movies”. So begins the first line in the Preface of this very readable …

Brian McFarlane, Real and Reel: The Education of a Film Obsessive. Glen Waverley: Sid Harta Publishers, 2010 ISBN: 1-921642-58-0 AU$29.95 (pb) 187pp (Review copy supplied by Sid Harta Publishers) There’s a lot of information packed into Brian McFarlane’s “‘rather specialised memoir’”. It contains multiple references to films, to film celebrities and it documents the evolution of the author’s staggering output …

Larissa Behrendt, Rabbit-Proof Fence (Australian Screen Classics Series) Strawberry Hills: Currency Press, 2012. Co-published with the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) ISBN: 978-0-86819-910-8 AU$16.95 (pb) 94pp (Review copy supplied by Currency Press) As a Eualeyai and Kamillaroi woman, a descendant of three generations affected by the removal of children from Indigenous families, an award-winning writer and respected academic, Larissa …