Raymond Longford’s The Sentimental Bloke: The Restored Version. Madman/NFSA/ATOM, 2009 (Review copy supplied by ATOM http://www.metromagazine.com.au/shop/product.asp?pID=1864) The Sentimental Bloke is a classic of Australian - and even world - silent cinema:…
Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley (ed.), Hollywood in the Neighbourhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing. University of California Press, 2008 ISBN: 9 780520249 73 8 US$27.95 (pb) 290pp (Review copy supplied…
Jane Mills, Loving and Hating Hollywood: Reframing Global and Local Cinemas. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2009 ISBN: 9 781741756 647 Aud$39.99 (pb) 249pp (Review copy supplied by Allen &…
Sabine Nessel, Winfried Pauleit, Christine Rüffert (eds), Wort und Fleisch: Kino zwischen Text und Körper/ Word and Flesh: Cinema between Text and the Body, German edition. CD with English version…
Matthew H. Bernstein, Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8203-3239-0 US$24.95 (pb) 332pp (Review copy supplied…
Alexander Jacoby, A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, California, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1933330 53 2 US$22.95 (pb) 398pp…
Kristen Whissel, Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-8223-4201-4 US$22.95 (pb) 288pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press)…
Rob King, The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0-520-25537-1 $24.95 (pb) 355pp (Review copy supplied…
Steven Maras, Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice. Wallflower Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-905674-81-7 UK£16.99 (pb) 227pp (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk) From his initial point which suggests a problematic…
Gönül Dönmez-Colin, Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging. London: Reaktion, 2008 ISBN: 978-1-86189-370-3 US$35.00 (pb) 268pp (Review copy supplied by Footprint Books http://www.footprint.com.au/) Gönül Dönmez-Colin’s Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging provides…
Deb Verhoeven, Jane Campion. London: Routledge, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-415-26275-0 US$31.95 285pp (Review copy supplied by Routledge http://www.routledge.com/) Over a decade ago, when I began working on Jane Campion’s The Piano, the amount…
Tony Shaw, Hollywood’s Cold War. Baltimore: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-1-55849-612-5 US$29.95 (pb) 352pp (Review copy supplied by University of Massachusetts Press http://www.umass.edu/umpress/about.html) In the forty-plus years that…
André Gaudreault, From Plato to Lumière: Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema, trans. Timothy Barnard. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009 ISBN: 9 780802095 86 2 US$27.95 (pb) 224pp (Review copy…
Michel Ciment, Film World: Interviews with Cinema’s Leading Directors. New York: Berg, 2009 ISBN: 9 781845204 57 0 US$24.95 (pb) 384pp (Review copy supplied by Berg Publishers http://www.bergpublishers.com/Categories/flm/tabid/602/Default.aspx) Reviewing a…
Dina Iordanova with Ragan Rhyne (eds), Film Festival Yearbook 1: The Festival Circuit. St Andrews, Scotland: St Andrews Film Studies, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-906678-04-3 UK£16.99 (pb) 225pp (Review copy supplied by…
Joe McElhaney (ed.), Vincente Minnelli: The Art of Entertainment. Detroit: Wayne State University, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8143-3307-5 US$29.95 (pb) 472pp (Review copy supplied by Wayne State University Press http://wsupress.wayne.edu/) For a…
Catherine Russell, The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8223-4312-7 US$47.95 (pb) 465pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press)…
Jacob Smith, Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008 ISBN: 9 780520254 94 7 US$24.95 (pb) 304pp (Review copy supplied by University of California Press…
Pak Tong Cheuk, Hong Kong New Wave Cinema (1978-2000). Bristol: Intellect Books, 2008 ISBN: 9 781841501 48 2 UK£19.95 (pb) 264pp (Review copy supplied by Intellect Books http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk) From the…
Brian McFarlane (ed), The Encyclopedia of British Film (Third Edition). Methuen, London, 2008 ISBN: 9780413776600 UK £24.99 (pb) 816pp (Review copy supplied by Methuen) Twenty years ago in a television…
Joe McElhaney, Albert Maysles. University of Illinois Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-252-07621 US$19.95 (pb) 206pp (Review copy supplied by University of Illinois Press) Joe McElhaney, associate professor of film and media…
Brooke Erin Duffy and Joseph Turow (eds), Key Readings in Media Today: Mass Communication in Contexts. London: Routledge, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-415-99205-3 Au$45.00 (pb) 496pp (Review copy supplied by Palgrave MacMillan…
Barry Curtis, Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film. London: Reaktion Books, 2009 ISBN: 9 781 86189389 5 US$16.00 (pb) 256pp (Review copy supplied by Footprint Books http://www.footprint.com.au/) Even a…
Mark Betz, Beyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4036-2 US$25.00 (pb) 384pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press…
Philip Gillett, Movie Greats: A Critical Study of Classic Cinema. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2008 ISBN: 978 1 84520 653 6 US$29.95 (pb) 256pp (Review copy supplied by Berg Publishers) Philip…
Bert Cardullo, Out of Asia: The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiraostami, and Zhang Yimou; Essays and Interviews. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008 ISBN: 1443800252 UK£14.99 (pb) 200pp (Review…
Roger Ebert, Scorsese by Ebert. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-226-18202-5 Au$25.00 (hb) 297pp (Review copy supplied by Footprint Books http://www.footprint.com.au/) Scorsese by Ebert opens with…
Joanna Page, Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema. Duke University Press, 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-4472-8 US$22.95 (pb) 248pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press http://www.dukeupress.edu/books/) In 1993, influential Argentine…
Jane Stadler with Kelly McWilliam, Screen Media: Analysing Film and Television. Crow’s Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2009 ISBN: 978 1 74175 448 3 AU$49.95 (pb) 390pp (Review copy supplied…
Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal (eds), Creative Nation: Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies Reader. New Delhi: SS Publications, 2009 ISBN: 81 902282 0 X AU$55 (hb) 600pp (Review copy supplied…
Michael Ingham, Johnnie To Kei-fung’s PTU. Hong University Press, Hong Kong, 2009 ISBN: 978-962-209-919-7 HKD135.00 (pb) 149pp (Review copy supplied by Hong Kong University Press hkupress@hkucc.hku.hk) It has become something…
Stella Hockenhull, Neo-Romantic Landscapes: An Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008 ISBN (13): 9781847187444 US$69.99 (hb) 220pp (Review copy sent…
Jane Blocker, Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8166-5476-5 US$25.00 (pb) 153pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press http://www.upress.umn.edu/)…