Peter William Evans & Celestino Deleyto, eds. Terms of Endearment: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s and 1990s. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0 7486 0885 0 220 pp £11.00…
Terrie Waddell (ed.) , Cultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness: Wrath, Sex, Crime. Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2003. ISBN: 9 042 01015 0 226pp US$50.00 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Rodopi…
Eric Cazdyn, The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. ISBN 0 8223 2929 5 316 pp US$21.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by…
Joseph Cunneen, Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style in Film. New York & London: Continuum, 2003. ISBN: 0826416055 (pb) US$17.95 ISBN: 0826414710 (hb) US$29.95 224pp (Review copy supplied by Continuum) The…
Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson and Alessio Cavallaro (eds), Prefiguring Cyberspace: An Intellectual History. Power Institute, Sydney / MIT Press, Cambridge MA. 2002. ISBN 1 86487 491 0 322 pages Au$49.95…
Eric Smoodin & Ann Martin (eds.), Hollywood Quarterly: Film Culture in Postwar America 1945-1957. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN 0 520 23274 7 417pp US$24.95 (pb) (Review copy…
Activating the Reader Graeme Turner (ed), The Film Cultures Reader. London & New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0 415 25281 4 448pp Au$50.00 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Routledge) In…
David C. Gillespie, Russian Cinema. Inside Film Series. Harlow, Eng., London: Longman, Pearson Education, 2003. ISBN: 0 582 43790 3 201pp US$11.95 (pb) Russian cinema, though represented often by the…
Alexandra Juhasz (ed.), Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video. Visible Evidence, vol. 9. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. ISBN: 0 8166 3372 X 343pp…
Lisa French (editor), Womenvision: Women and the Moving Image in Australia. Melbourne: Damned Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 1 876310 01 4 336pp Au$29.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Damned Publishing) Womenvision makes…
Kenneth Turan, Sundance to Sarajevo: Films Festivals and the World they Made. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN: 0 520 21867 1 192pp US$35.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by…
Lutz Koepnick, The Dark Mirror. German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002. ISBN 0 520 23310 7 334 pp US $ 24.95 (pb) (Review copy…
Jane Roscoe and Craig Hight, Faking It: Mock-documentary and the Subversion of Factuality. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2001. ISBN: 0 7190 5641 1 Au$43.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Footprint…
Leon Hunt, Kung Fu Cult Masters: From Bruce Lee to Crouching Tiger. London: Wallflower, 2003. ISBN: 1 903364 63 9 229 pp £15.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press)…
Alan McKee, Australian Television: A Genealogy of Great Moments. Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2001. ISBN: 0 195512251 362 pp Au$49.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Oxford University Press) In…
Kelly Hankin, The Girls in the Back Room: Looking at the Lesbian Bar. University of Minnesota Press, 2002. ISBN: 0 8166 3298 0; US$56.95 (hb) ISBN 0 8166 3929 9:…
Peter Stanfield, Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s: The Lost Trail. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2001. ISBN: 0 85989 694 3 (pb) £18.99 ISBN: 0 85989 693 5 (hb) £47.50 272pp…
Ben Singer, Melodrama and Modernity. Early Sensational Cinema and its Contexts. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001 ISBN: 0 231 113293 256 pp US$24.50 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Columbia University…
Mark Glancy, "The 39 Steps". A British Film Guide. London: I.B. Tauris, 2002 ISBN : 1 860 64614 X 128pp £12.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by I.B Tauris) The author of…
Sam B. Girgus. America on Film: Modernism, Documentary and a Changing America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0521 009316. 226 pp Au$49.95 (Review copy supplied by Cambridge University Press)…
Where are the Borders? William Van Der Heide. Malaysian cinema, Asian film: border crossings and national cultures. Amsterdam University Press. 2002. ISBN: 9 05356519 1 336pp US$32.00 (pb) The dearth…
Michel Marie, The French New Wave: An Artistic School. New York & Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 0 631 22658 3 172 pp US $21.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by…
Indian Film Books Gayatri Chatterjee, Mother India. London: BFI Publishing. 2002. ISBN: 0 85170 917 6, 96pp, £8.99 (pb) Rachel Dwyer, Yash Chopra. London: BFI Publishing. 2002. ISBN: 0 85170 875 7, 202…
The Cinema of the Other Europe. Re-opening the question. Dina Iordanova, Cinema of the Other Europe: The Industry and Artistry of East Central European Film London & New York: Wallflower…
Peter Lehman and William Luhr, Thinking About Movies: Watching, Questioning, Enjoying. (Second Edition). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 0 631 23358 X 397pp US$49.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Blackwell Publishing)…
Kay Armatage, The Girl from God's country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. ISBN: 0 802085423. 428pp £20 (hb) (Review copy supplied by University…
Karen Beckman, Vanishing Women: Magic, Film and Feminism. Duke University Press. 2003. ISBN 0 8223 3074 1 256pp US (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) With the aid of…
Brian McFarlane (ed), The Encylopedia of British Film. London: Methuen, in association with BFI, 2003 ISBN: 0413773019 800pp £24.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Methuen) A few months ago, I…
Jonathan Rosenbaum & Adrian Martin (eds.), Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia. London: BFI Publishing. 2003. ISBN: 0851709842 (pb): £15.99 ISBN: 0851709834 (hb) £48.00 224 pp (Review copy…
Ni Zhen (translated by Chris Berry), Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: The Genesis of China's Fifth Generation. Durham & London: Duke University, 2002. ISBN: 0 822 32970 0 240pp…
Beumers, Birgit (ed.), Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema. Kino: The Russian cinema series. London and New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 1999. ISBN: 1 86064 390 6…
Louis Nowra, Walkabout. NSW: Currency Press, 2003 ISBN 0 86819 700 9 Au $14.95 (pb) (review copy supplied by Currency Press) Louis Nowra's Walkabout is a succinct, very good, useful close reading…
"Continuities of consciousness" Grahame Smith, Dickens and the Dream of Cinema. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0 7190 5563 6 240pp UK£14.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by…
Christopher Beach, Class, Language and American Film Comedy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0 521 00209 5 241pp. £16.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Cambridge University Press) Any book…
A smorgasboard for actors Adam Macauley, Don’t Tell Me, Show Me: Directors Talk about Acting. NSW: Currency Press, 2003 ISBN 0 86819 669 X 211 pp Au$29.95 (Review copy supplied…
Bernadette Kester, Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films of the Weimar period (1919 – 1933). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2004 ISBN 90 5356 597…
John E. Bodnar, Blue Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy and Working People in American Film. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0 801 87149 2 320pp US$42.95 (hb) (Review copy…
Sam Rohdie, Fellini Lexicon. London: BFI publishers, 2002. ISBN: 0851709346 £13.99 (pb) ISBN: 0851709338 £48.00 (hb) 159pp (Review copy supplied by BFI publishing) A note on the back cover of…