Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the media limit what films we can see
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the media limit what films we can see. London: Wallflower Press, 2002. ISBN 1 903364 60 4 234 pp. £12. 99. (Review copy…
If….
Mark Sinker, If.... London: British Film Institute, 2004. ISBN: 1 84457 040 1 88 pp £8.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by the British Film Institute) In his review of new…
Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema
Haidee Wasson, Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 520 24131 2 (pb) US$24.95 ISBN: 0…
César
Stephen Heath, César. (BFI Film Classics) London: BFI publishing, 2004. ISBN: 0 85170 833 1 88 pp £8.99stg. (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI Publishing) If serious cinephilia has lionized…
Terms of Endearment: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s and 1990s
Peter William Evans & Celestino Deleyto, eds. Terms of Endearment: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s and 1990s. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0 7486 0885 0 220 pp £11.00…
Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures
Alexander Nemerov, Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures. Berkeley: California University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0-520-24100-2 213pp US$24.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) Lately there…
Screening Modernism: European Art Cinema 1950-1980
András Bálint Kovács, Screening Modernism: European Art Cinema 1950-1980. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-226-45165-7 US$22.50 (pb) 428pp (Review copy supplied by University of Chicago Press) As we…