Issue 14 – Reviews

J.P. Telotte, Science Fiction Film. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. ISBN 0 521 59647 9 254pp AU$49.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Cambridge University Press) Uploaded 20 September 2002 It…

Jane Mills, The Money Shot: Cinema, Sin and Censorship. Pluto Press, Annandale 2001. ISBN  1 86403 142 5 255 pp A$32.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Pluto Press) Uploaded 25…

Beard, William, The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2001. ISBN: 0 8020 3569 8 469 pp. US$50.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by…

David Henry Slavin, Colonial Cinema and Imperial France: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore and London, 2001. ISBN: 0 8018 6616 2 288pp US$42.00…

B. J. Bullert, Public Television: Politics and the Battle over Documentary Film, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8135-2470-9 Review copy supplied by the publisher. Uploaded 20…

Larry May, The Big Tomorrow: Hollywood and the Politics of the American Way. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. ISBN 0 226 51162 6 348pp US$32.60 (hb) (Review copy supplied…

Hamid Naficy, An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001. ISBN 0 691 043924 374 pp US$24.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Princeton University Press) Uploaded 25…

Chris Fujiwara, Jacques Tourneur.The Cinema of Nightfall. John Hopkins University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0801865611 344pp US$18.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by John Hopkins University Press) Uploaded 20 September 2002 I…

Dina Iordanova, Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the Media. London: BFI publishing, 2001. ISBN 0 85170 8471 322 pp US$27.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI) Uploaded 25…

Marcia Landy, Italian Film, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. ISBN: 0 5216 497 7 434pp US$24.00 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Cambridge University Press) Uploaded 25 July 2002 Marcia Landy's massive…

Robert Warshow, The Immediate Experience. Harvard University Press, 2001. ISBN 0 674 00726 3 US $18.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Harvard University Press) Uploaded 20 September 2002 Three-quarters into…

Uploaded 25 July 2002 For nine days in November 2001 (9th-17th), the 6th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) rocked the seaside city of Pusan. A record 659 industry guests from…

John Rajchman, The Deleuze Connections. MIT Press, 2000. ISBN: 0 262 68120 X 120 pp US$16.00 (pb) (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) Uploaded 25 July 2002 There are two…

Edward Buscombe, The Searchers. London: BFI, 2000. ISBN 0 85170 820 X 79pp US$12.95 (pb) Uploaded 25 July 2002 A tricky film, The Searchers (1956). The audience is drawn into identifying with…

David Hanan (ed), Film in South East Asia: Views from the Region. Hanoi: SEAPAAVA (South East Asia-Pacific Audio Visual Archive Association), 2001. ISBN: 0 642 705 1 7 320pp AuS$40.00…

Le Grice, Malcolm, Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age. London: British Film Institute, 2001. ISBN 0 85170 873 0 484pp UK£7.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI Publishing) Uploaded 20…

Robert M. Entman & Andrew Rojecki, The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000. ISBN: 0 226 21075 8. 305…

Andrew Higson (ed), Young and Innocent? The Cinema in Britain 1896-1930. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002. Paperback: ISBN: 0859897176 Price: GBP25.00 USD39.95 Hardback: ISBN: 0859896595 Price: GBP47.50 USD89.95 (Review…

Paula Marantz Cohen, Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth. Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0195 14 094X 240pp US$18.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Oxford University Press)…

Douglas Kahn, Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts. Cambridge: MIT P, 1999. ISBN: 0 2621 243 4 464 pp US$46.00 (hb) Review copy supplied by MIT…

James Lastra, Sound Technology and the American Cinema (Film and culture series). Columbia University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0 2311 1517 2 270pp US$18.50 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Columbia University Press)…