How Can Cinema History Matter More?
[1] Out of the blue, a little over ten years ago, Melvyn Stokes telephoned me. He was beginning his annual task of organising the Commonwealth Fund conference on American history…
Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan
Sam B Girgus, Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan. Cambridge University Press, 1998 ISBN 0521 1625521 A$33.95 (paper) Uploaded 12 November 1999…
“The problem of interpretation …”: authorial and institutional intentions in and around Kiss Me Deadly
Uploaded 30 June 2000 Hardboiled private eye meller from the Mickey Spillane pen, featuring blood, action and sex for exploitable b.o.[1] To the critic the work of art is simply…
More Than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts
James Naremore More Than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts Berkeley, Los Angeles,London: University of California Press, 1998 ISBN 0 520 21294 0 359 pp US $19.95 (paper) Uploaded 16…