Issue 19 – Reviews

Steve Lannin and Matthew Caley (eds), Pop Fiction: The Song in Cinema. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2005. ISBN: 1 84150 078 X 173 pp £14.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Intellect…

Geoffrey Cocks, The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History & the Holocaust. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2004. ISBN: 0 8204 7115 1 338 pp US$29.95 (pb) (Review…

Charles O'Brien, Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 253 34463 8 (hb) US$45.00 ISBN:…

Johannes Ehrat, Cinema and Semiotic: Peirce and Film Aesthetics, Narration, and Representation. Toronto studies in semiotics and communication. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 8020…

Francis Guerin, A Culture of Light. Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 8166 4286 9 314 pp US$24.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied…

Steven Jay Schneider (general editor), 1001 Movies you must see before you die. Quintet Publishing Limited, 2005. ISBN: 0 7641 5701 9 960pp US$35.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Barron's…

Mark Sinker, If.... London: British Film Institute, 2004. ISBN: 1 84457 040 1 88 pp £8.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by the British Film Institute) In his review of new…

Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour (eds.), Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film. An Alphabet City Media Book. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 262 05078 1 544pp US$35.00 (hb)…

David Bordwell, Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging. University of California Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 520 24197 5 330pp US$24.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of California Press)…

Haidee Wasson, Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 520 24131 2 (pb) US$24.95 ISBN: 0…

Robert Bird, Andrei Rublev. London: BFI Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 1 84457 038 X 87pp £9.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI publishing) THE BURNING NARRATIVE: ICON AND AXE IN TARKOVSKY'S ANDREI…

Eric Smoodin, Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930-1960. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 8223 3384 8 (hb) US$79.95 ISBN: 0 8223 3394 5 (pb)…

Roz Kaveney, From Alien to The Matrix: Reading Science Fiction Film. London & New York: I.B.Tauris, 2005. ISBN: 1 85043 806 4 208pp £9.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by I.B.Tauris) Roz Kaveney has…

George Melnyk, One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 8020 8444 3 US$35 (pb) ISBN: 0 8020 3568 X US$70…

Colin Gardner, Joseph Losey. British Film Makers, Manchester University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 7190 6782 0 (hb) £47.50 ISBN: 0 7190 6783 9 (pb) £15.99 328pp (Review copy supplied by…

Mike Wayne (ed.), Understanding Film: Marxist Perspectives. London and Ann Arbor, Mich.: Pluto Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 7453 1993 9 (hb) US$85.00 ISBN: 0 7453 1992 0 (pb) US$29.95 253pp…

Peter William Evans, Carol Reed. Manchester University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 7190 6367 1 224 pp £14.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press) Carol Reed may be the…

Stanley Cavell, Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow. Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 674 01704 8 (hb) 328pp US$27.95 (Review copy supplied by Harvard University…

Lisa Parks, Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual. Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 8223 3461 5 US$79.95 (hb) ISBN: 0 8223 3497 6 US$22.95 (pb) 256pp (Review copy…

Philip Brophy, 100 Modern Soundtracks. (BFI Screen Guides) London: BFI Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 1 84457 013 4 (hb) £45 ISBN: 1 84457 014 2 (pb) £13.99 204pp (Review copy supplied…

Steven Jay Schneider (ed), New Hollywood Violence. Manchester University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 7190 6723 5 336pp £16.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press) Murray Pomerance begins his…

Richard Schickel, Elia Kazan: A Biography. HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN: 0 06 019579 7 544pp US$29.95 (hb) (Review copy supplied by HarperCollins) What most distinguishes Elia Kazan from other directors occupying…

Trisha Dunleavy, Ourselves in Primetime: A History of New Zealand Television Drama. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. ISBN: 1 86940 339 8 300pp NZ$49.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Auckland…

Lindsay Shelton, The Selling of New Zealand Movies. Wellington: Awa Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 9582 5384 6 239pp NZ$39.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Awa Press) The cover of Lindsay…

Brian McFarlane, Lance Comfort. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0 7190 5484 2 225pp £9.99 (pb) Neil Sinyard, Jack Clayton. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0 7190 5505…

DVD review: Edison: The Invention of the Movies. Kino Video and the Museum of Modern Art in cooperation with the Library of Congress present 140 Edison Company films, 1891-1918. Curated by…

Chi-Yun Shin and Julian Stringer (eds.), New Korean Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 7486 1851 1 (hb) £45.00 ISBN: 0 7486 1852 X (pb) £16.99 234pp (Review…

Andrew Moor, Powell & Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces. London & New York, I.B Tauris, 2005. ISBN: 1 8504 3947 8 288pp £25.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by I.B…

Thomas Caldwell, Film Analysis Handbook: Essential Guide to Understanding, Analysing and Writing on Film. Victoria, Australia: Insight publications, 2005. ISBN: 1 920693 77 7 (pb) 228pp Au$39.95 (Review copy supplied…

Geoff Mayer, Roy Ward Baker. British Film Makers Series, Manchester University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 7190 6354 X 224pp £45.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press) Roy Ward…