Michael Ingham, Johnnie To Kei-fung’s PTU. Hong University Press, Hong Kong, 2009 ISBN: 978-962-209-919-7 HKD135.00 (pb) 149pp (Review copy supplied by Hong Kong University Press hkupress@hkucc.hku.hk) It has become something…
Joe McElhaney (ed.), Vincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment. Detroit: Wayne State University, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8143-3307-5 US$29.95 (pb) 472pp (Review copy supplied by Wayne State University Press http://wsupress.wayne.edu/) For a…
Catherine Russell, The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8223-4312-7 US$47.95 (pb) 465pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press)…
Poshek Fu and David Desser (ed), The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 0 521 77235 4 (hb) 0 521 77602 3 (pb) 352pp…
Fergus Daly and Garin Dowd, Leos Carax. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0 7190 6315 9 244pp UK£11.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press)…
Sarah Street, Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the USA. New York: Continuum, 2002. ISBN 0 8264 1396 X 280pp UK£18.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Continuum International Publishing Group)…
Zhang Zhen, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. ISBN: 0-226-98237-8 (hb) US$75 ISBN: 0-226-98238-6 (pb) US$30 488pp (Review copy supplied…
David West, Chasing Dragons: An Introduction to the Martial Arts Film. London, New York: I. B. Tauris, 2006. ISBN: 978 1 85043 982 0 £12.99 (pb) 272pp (Review copy supplied…
Daisuke Miyao, The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013 ISBN 978 0 8223 5422 2 US$27.95 (pb) 400pp (Review copy supplied by…
Alistair Phillips and Julian Stringer (eds.), Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts. Oxford: Routledge, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-415-32848-7 US$35.95 (pb) 363pp (Review copy supplied by Routledge) The study of Japanese cinema has…
Chi-Yun Shin and Julian Stringer (eds.), New Korean Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 7486 1851 1 (hb) £45.00 ISBN: 0 7486 1852 X (pb) £16.99 234pp (Review…
Ramon Lobato, Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution London: British Film Institute/Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-84457-411-7 US$85 (hb) 176pp (Review copy supplied by Palgrave Macmillan) Ramon Lobato opens…
Australian cinema industries have always looked to the United States for the innovation of products and practices which can be put into place in Australia once they have been trialled…
Kyung Hyun Kim, Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2011 ISBN978-0-8223-5101-6 US$24.95(pb) 256pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Kyung Hyun…
Matthew Solomon (ed.), Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: George Méliès’s Trip to the Moon Albany: SUNY Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4384-3580-0 $29.95 (pb) 271pp (Review copy supplied by SUNY press)…
Geoff King, New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction. London: I.B. Tauris, 2009 (first published 2002) ISBN 1 86064 749 9 UK£18.99 (pb) 296pp (Review copy supplied by I.B. Tauris) All the…
Michael Hammond, The big show: British cinema culture in the Great War 1914-1918. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 85989 758 3 304pp £45 (hb) (Review copy supplied…
Noël Carroll, Interpreting the Moving Image Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998. ISBN 0 521 58039 0 (cloth) ISBN 0 521 58970 3 (paper), 370pp. Uploaded 18 December 1998 This collection…
Ranjani Mazumdar, Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-8166-4942-6 US$22.50 (pb) 257 pages (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) The…
Paul Grainge, Brand Hollywood: Selling Entertainment in a Global Media Age. London & New York: Routledge, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-415-35405-9 US$34.95 (pb) 224pp (Review copy supplied by Routledge) The brand is…
Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr, and Takayuki Tatsumi (eds.), Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime. Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. ISBN:…
Zhang Zhen (ed.), The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4074-4 US$26.95 (pb) 447pp (Review…
Mark Kerins, Beyond Dolby (Stereo): Cinema in the Digital Sound Age Indiana University Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-253-22252-7 US$24.95 (pb) 392pp (Review copy supplied by Indiana University Press) Kerins says at…
Carl Plantinga and Greg M. Smith (eds.), Passionate Views: Film, Cognition and Emotion. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. ISBN 0 8018 6011 3 (pb) 312pp US$17.95 (Review copy supplied…
Gönül Dönmez-Colin, Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Film-makers from Iran and Turkey (2nd ed.) Bristol & Chicago: Intellect Books, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-84150-548-0 323pp (Review copy supplied by…