Author Archive for: ‘Ryan Cook’

Saitō Tamaki, Beautiful Fighting Girl, (trans. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011 ISBN: 978 0 8166 5451 2 US$19.95 (pb) 213pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson’s lucid translation of Saitō Tamaki’s flawed but engaging and sophisticated book Beautiful Fighting Girl may have been intended as a contribution …

Lisa Downing and Sue Harris, eds., From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom of Catherine Deneuve. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-7190-7338-0 Au$152.00 (hb) 188pp (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press. Available from Footprint Books) I have a cherished memory of Paris from what I suppose must have been the winter of 1998. Turning a corner one …

Jay McRoy, Nightmare Japan: Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema. Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2008 ISBN: 978 90 420 2331 4 US$67 (pb) 219pp (Review copy supplied by Rodopi) In the opening pages of Nightmare Japan, Jay McRoy outlines his task: to “advance current studies” of Japanese horror cinema, and to answer the call for a “much-needed aesthetic and critical …

Matthew H. Bernstein, Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8203-3239-0 US$24.95 (pb) 332pp (Review copy supplied by University of Georgia Press) Matthew H. Bernstein’s Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television is an exhaustively researched historical study that introduces a famous case of lynching …