Issue 27 – Reviews

Note: here is the fourth instalment of what has already turned out to be a long review. It is late and longer than ever. In this section the last of…

Mark James Russell, Pop Goes Korea: Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music, and Internet Culture. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2008 ISBN: 978 1 933330 68 6 US$19.95 (pb) 224pp (Review…

Lisa French and Mark Poole, Shining a Light: 50 Years of the Australian Film Institute. The Moving Image, no.9, ATOM 2009 AU$39.95 252pp Dr George Miller, doyen of the Australian…

Kenneth E. Hall, John Woo’s The Killer. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-962-209-956-2 HKD135.00 (pb) 125pp (Review copy supplied by Hong Kong University Press) Fifteen books in Hong…

Yvette Biro, Turbulence and Flow in Film: The Rhythmic Design (Translated by Paul Salamon). Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21965-7 US$22.95 (pb) 269pp (Review copy supplied by Indiana…

Janet Harbord, Chris Marker: La Jetée. Afterall Books, London, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-84638-048-8 UK£9.95 (pb) 112pp (Review copy supplied by Afterall Books) Janet Harbord’s elegantly written and structured monograph Chris Marker: La Jetée is…

Stephen Chibnall and Brian McFarlane, The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-84457-319-6 US$30.00 (pb) 256pp (Review copy supplied by BFI/Palgrave Macmillan) Let me say right off that…

Elizabeth Legge, Wavelength. London: Afterall Books, 2009 ISBN-10: 1-846380-56-1 US$16.00 (pb) 112pp (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) Michael Snow’s Wavelength (US 1966) is a groundbreaking film in every sense of the…

Lucas Hilderbrand, Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978 0 8223 4376 9 US$24.95 (pb) 320pp (Review copy supplied by Duke…

Joan Simon (ed.), Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-300-15250-0 US$40.00 (hb) 148pp…

Dianne F. Sadoff, Victorian Vogue: British Novels on the Screen. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis & London, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8166-6092-6 US$25.00 (pb) 329pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota…

Jason Wood, Talking Movies: Contemporary World Filmmakers in Interview. London and New York: Wallflower Press, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-1904764908 US$25.00 (pb) 224pp (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press) Like other interview-based…

Marguerite H. Rippy, Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2009 US$35.00 (pb) 223pp (Review copy supplied by Southern Illinois University Press) Marguerite…

Robert Burgoyne, The Hollywood Historical Film. Malden MA, Blackwell Publishing, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1405146036 US$31.95 (pb) 192pp (Review copy supplied by Blackwell Publishing) The task of encompassing historical cinema into a…

Harriet Margolis, Sean Cubitt, Barry King and Thierry Jutel, Studying the Event Film: The Lord of the Rings. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-07190-7198-0 UK£55 (hb)…

Karla Oeler, A Grammar of Murder: Violent Scenes and Film Form. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-226-61795-5 US$30.00 (pb) 304pp (Review copy supplied by University of Chicago Press…

Tom McSorley, Atom Egoyan’s The Adjuster. University of Toronto Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4426-1048-4 US$16.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of Toronto Press) To his credit, Atom Egoyan has achieved some…

Rick Altman, A Theory of Narrative. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-231-14429-2 US$27.50 (pb) 392pp (Review copy supplied by Columbia University Press) It’s nothing new to say that…