Jerome Silbergeld, China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema London: Reaktion Books, 1999. ISBN 1861890508 352pp AU$59.95(paper) (Review copy supplied by Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd)…
Jonathan Crary, Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture London and Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN 0 262 03265 1 397pp US$39.95 (cloth) (Review copy supplied by MIT Press)…
Louis and Alan Gordon, American Chronicle: Year by Year through the Twentieth Century. Yale University Press, 1999. ISBN 0 300 07587 1 1,024 pp US$49.95 (Review Copy supplied by Yale…
Naomi Greene, Landscapes of Loss: The National Past in Postwar French Cinema . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. ISBN 0 691 02959 8 234pp US$18.95 (Review copy supplied by Princeton…
David MacDougall, Transcultural Cinema. Edited & introduced by Lucien Taylor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. ISBN 0 691 01234 2 528pp US$17.95 (Review copy supplied by Princeton University Press) Uploaded…
Klaus Kreimeier, The UFA Story. A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. London: University of California Press, 1999. ISBN 0-520-22069-2 451pp US$19.95 (Review copy supplied by California University Press)…
Christopher Frayling, Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death. London: Faber and Faber, 2000. ISBN 0-571-16438-2 570pp A$40.00 Uploaded 1 November 2000 Sergio Leone's career was characterised by a constant…
Gaye Poole, Reel Meals, Set Meals: Food in Film and Theatre. Sydney: Currency Press, 1999. ISBN 086819 578 2 280pp A$24.95 (Review copy supplied by Currency Press) Uploaded 1 November…
Martin Rubin, Thrillers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-58839-1, 319 pp, A$33.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Cambridge University Press) Jonathan Munby, Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from Little…
Donald Richie, The Films of Akira Kurosawa. 3rd Edition. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1996. ISBN: 0-520-22037-4 273 pp. (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) Uploaded…
Tania Modleski, Old Wives' Tales: Feminist Re-visions of Film and other Fictions. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999. ISBN 1 86064 386 8 238 pp UK£14.95 (Review copy supplied by I.B. Tauris) Uploaded…
Philip Brophy (ed.), Cinesonic: Cinema and the Sound of Music. Sydney: Australian film, television, and radio school, 2000 ISBN 9 781876 351090 224 pp A$24.95 (Review copy supplied by AFTRS)…
Katherine A. Fowkes, Giving up the Ghost: Spirits, Ghosts, and Angels in Mainstream Comedy Films Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0 8143 2721 4 (paper) 202pp US$ 24.95…
Peter Lunenfeld, Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media and Culture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. ISBN: 0 262 12226 X 240pp US$32.95 (cloth) (Review copy supplied by…
Mark A. Vieira, Sin in Soft Focus Pre-Code Hollywood. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999. ISBN 0810944758 (cloth) 240pp A$75.00 (Review copy supplied by Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty…
Harriet Margolis, (ed.), Jane Campion's The Piano. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 0 521 59721 8 (paper) 204 pp. A$34.95 (Review copy supplied by Cambridge University Press) Uploaded 1…
Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink (eds.), The CInema Book. 2nd ed. London: BFI, 1999. ISBN 085170 726 2 AU$80.00. (Review copy supplied by Peribo) Uploaded 1 November 2000 The fact that…
John Ellis, Seeing Things: Television in the Age of Uncertainty. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2000. ISBN 1 86064 489 9 (paper). 193 pp. UK£12.95 (Review copy supplied by I.B.Tauris) Uploaded…
Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski (eds), Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video. Detroit:Wayne State University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8143-2639-0 656pp US$27.50 (Review copy supplied by…
Cynthia Erb, Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon in World Culture. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. ISBN 0 8143 2686 2 (paper) 280pp (Review copy supplied by Wayne State…