Author Archive for: ‘Thomas Salek’
Blackout: On Memory and Catastrophe
Joan Grossman, Blackout: On Memory and Catastrophe. New York and Dresden: Atropos Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9819972-3-0 US$16.95 (pb) 112pp (Review copy supplied by Atropos Press) Philosophers from Aristotle to Jacques Derrida have attempted to theorize how individuals and communities recall and represent important events. In her book, Blackout: On Memory and Catastrophe, Joan Grossman builds on the work of classic and …
Read MoreAlternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema: Resonance Between Realms
James Walters, Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema: Resonance Between Realms. Chicago: Intellect Books, The University of Chicago Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-1-84150-202-1 US$30.00 (pb) 232pp (Review copy supplied by Unireps) The recognition of fictionalized or fantasy worlds is nothing new to cinema studies. However, in Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema: Resonance Between Realms, University of Birmingham professor James Walters builds upon previous …
Read MoreCrash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis, Karen Beckman
Karen Beckman, Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8223-4726-2 US$24.95 (pb) 305pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Since the industrial revolution, technology has completely altered ways of living. In the twenty-first century, a deluge of new technology has continued to crash into our daily lives, altering modes …
Read MoreHollywood’s Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History
Reynold Humphries, Hollywood’s Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-7486-2456-0 UK£19.99 (pb) 184pp (Review copy supplied by Edinburgh University Press) Fear and anxiety loomed over the offices and back lots of Hollywood studios throughout the early 1950s. Following World War II and the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, American politics shifted away from left-leaning …
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