Author Archive for: ‘Tony Fonseca’
Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film
John Bodnar, Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0 8018 7149 2 $US25.00 (pb) 284pp (Review copy supplied by The Johns Hopkins University Press) In some respects, Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film is a lifelong project for Pulitzer prize nominated historian John Bodnar. Bodnar, after …
Read MoreInherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright
Lucas Hilderbrand, Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978 0 8223 4376 9 US$24.95 (pb) 320pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) In his introduction to Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright, Lucas Hilderbrand (Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC-Irvine) writes that he was inspired to …
Read MoreThe Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer
Louis Kaplan, The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008 ISBN: 978 0 8166 5156 6 US$24.95 (pb) 264pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer uses primary source documents – including prints of original photographs – to tell the fascinating story of a Boston jewel …
Read MoreUncanny Bodies: The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre
Robert Spadoni, Uncanny Bodies: The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 978 0 520 25122 9 US$24.95 (pb) 190pp (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) In the Introduction to Uncanny Bodies, Robert Spadoni (Assistant Professor, English, Case Western University) claims to have published what amounts to the …
Read MoreThe Changing Face of Evil in Film and Television
Martin F. Norden (ed.), The Changing Face of Evil in Film and Television. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2007. ISBN: 978 90 420 2324 6 US$77.00 (pb) 244pp (Review copy supplied by Rodopi) The publication of an anthology of essays which strive to probe disciplinary boundaries through rigorous inquiries into specific subjects is an idea whose time has come. This is …
Read MoreThe Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia, James M. Welsh, Gene D. Phillips, and Rodney F. Hill (eds)
Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2010 ISBN: 978 0 8108 7651 4 US$70.00 (hb) 328pp (Review copy supplied by The Scarecrow Press) James M. Welsh, in his Introduction (“So Why Does Francis Coppola Deserve His Own Encyclopedia”) to The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia, writes that the main function of the text could be worded as explaining “why Coppola matters.” …
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