Scott MacDonald, The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University California Press, 2001. ISBN 0 520 22738 7 (pb) 461pp.…
Adrian Martin, The Mad Max Movies. Sydney: Currency Press. 2003. ISBN: 0 86819 670 3 Au$14.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Currency Press) There is nothing more admirable than intellect…
'Proof positive' Michel Ciment and Laurence Kardish (eds.), Positif 50 years: Selections from the French film journal New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002. ISBN: 0870706888. 288 pp US$21.00 (pb) (Review…
Daniel Bernardi, (ed.) Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. ISBN: 08166 3239 1. 516pp. US$24.95 (Review copy supplied by Minnesota University Press) Linda Williams, Playing the Race Card:…
"Strange, I've Seen That Interface Before" Martin Rieser & Andrea Zapp, (eds.) New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative London: British Film Institute, 2002. ISBN 0 85170 864 1 335 pp DVD-ROM. UK£4.99 (pb)…
Barrett Hodsdon, Straight Roads and Crossed Lines: The Quest for Film Culture in Australia? Shenton Park, WA: Bernt Porridge Group, 2001 ISBN: 0 95792100 4 (pb) 205pp Au$45 plus $8…
Rainer Rother, Leni Riefenstahl: The Seduction of Genius. trans. Martin H. Bott. London: Continuum, 2002. ISBN: 0 8264 6101 8 262pp US $27.95 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Continuum Publishing…
Bill Nichols (ed.), Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN 0 520 22732 8 331pp US$19.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of California…
Jeffrey Richards, A Night to Remember: The Definitive Titanic Film. London, I.B. Tauris, 2003. ISBN: 1 86064 849 5 136pp £2.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by I.B. Tauris) Jeffrey Richards loves…
Angelo Restivo, The Cinema of Economic Miracles: Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film. Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2002 ISBN 0 8223 2799 6 212 pp US$18.95…
Roger Horrocks, Len Lye: A Biography. Auckland University Press, 2001 (reprinted 2002) 436pp (Review copy obtained from author) Referring to Len Lye's "singularity", this book opens with a quote from…
Arthur Knight, Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. ISBN 0 8223 2963 8 338 pp US$21.95 (Review copy supplied by…
Tara Brabazon, Digital Hemlock: Digital Education and the Poisoning of Teaching. UNSW Press, Sydney, 2002. ISBN 0 86840 781 X 222 pp. $A 34.95 (Review copy supplied by UNSW Press)…
Robert T. Self, Robert Altman's Subliminal Reality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. ISBN 0 8166 3790 332pp US$19.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press) Robert Self…
Stuart Cunningham & Graeme Turner (eds), The Media & Communications in Australia. New South Wales, Australia: Allen & Unwin. 2002. ISBN: 1 86508 674 6 383pp Au$ (pb) (Review copy…
Poshek Fu and David Desser (ed), The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 0 521 77235 4 (hb) 0 521 77602 3 (pb) 352pp…
Leonie Naughton, That was the Wild East: Film Culture, Unification and the "New" Germany. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002. ISBN: 0 4720888 2 267 pp US$29.95 (pb)…
Raffaele Caputo & Geoff Burton, Third Take: Australian Film-makers Talk. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2002. ISBN: 1 86508 507 3. 224pp Au$27.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Allen &…
Mimi Colligan, Canvas Documentaries: Panoramic Entertainments in Nineteenth-Century Australia and New Zealand Melbourne: Melbourne University Press 2002. ISBN: 0522850197 250 pp Au$59.95 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Melbourne University Press)…
Vijay Mishra, Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire. Routledge, New York and London, 2002. ISBN: 0415930146 320pp Au$55 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Routledge) Indian cinema is becoming incorporated into the…
Yuri Tsivian, Ivan the Terrible. London: British Film Institute, 2002, (BFI Film Classics series) ISBN: 0 85170834 X 87 pp £8.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI publishing). Yuri Tsivian's…
Ray Carney and Leonard Quart. The Films of Mike Leigh: Embracing the World. Cambridge Film Classics Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0 521 48518 5 (pb) 292pp Au$34.95…
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the media limit what films we can see. London: Wallflower Press, 2002. ISBN 1 903364 60 4 234 pp. £12. 99. (Review copy…
Charles Barr, Vertigo. London: BFI publishing, 2002. ISBN: 0 85170 918 4 87pp UK£8.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI publishing) If ever a film deserved its own monograph, it…