Issue 28 – Reviews

  Introduction When it is completed, Part Three will be the fifth instalment of a review of the lesser John Ford films contained in the gigantic Ford At Fox box set. It…

Chris Fujiwara, Jerry Lewis (Contemporary Film Directors). University of Illinois Press, 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0252076794 US$19.95 (pb) 176pp (Review copy supplied by University of Illinois Press) This brief but pithy volume increases…

Warren Buckland (ed.), Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies. New York: Routledge, 2009 ISBN: 978 0 415 96262 9 US$26.96 (pb) 358pp (Review copy supplied by Routledge) How can we…

Heide Schlüpmann, The Uncanny Gaze: The Drama of Early German Cinema. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010 ISBN: 3-87877-373-0 US$30.00 (pb) 273pp Mark Garrett Cooper, Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional…

Roger Hallas, Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness, and the Queer Moving Image. Duke University Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0-8223-4601-2 US$24.95 (pb) 336pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) As HIV/AIDS…

Graeme Harper and Jonathan Rayner (eds), Cinema and Landscape. Bristol: Intellect, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-84150-309-7 US$25.00 (pb) 315pp (Review copy supplied by Intellect) Presumably anyone interested in reading Cinema and Landscape, an…

Brian McFarlane and Deane Williams, Michael Winterbottom (British Film Makers). Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-7190-7422 6 AU$89 (hb) 152pp (Review copy supplied by Footprint Books) Michael…

Scott MacDonald, Adventures of Perception: Cinema as Exploration. University of California Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780520258563 US$29.95 (pb) 440pp (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) Scott MacDonald’s Adventures of Perception:…

D. N. Rodowick (ed.), Afterimages of Gilles Deleuze’s Film Philosophy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010 ISBN: 978 0 8166 5007 1 US$27.50 (pb) 396pp (Review copy supplied by University…

Joan Grossman, Blackout: On Memory and Catastrophe. New York and Dresden: Atropos Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9819972-3-0 US$16.95 (pb) 112pp (Review copy supplied by Atropos Press) Philosophers from Aristotle to Jacques…

Bhaskar Sarkar, Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8223-4411-7 US$25.95 (pb) 372pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University…

Jackie Stacey, The Cinematic Life of the Gene. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-0822345077 US$23.95 (pb) 328pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Jackie Stacey’s book…

James Chapman and Nicolas Cull, Projecting Empire: Imperialism and Popular Cinema. London New York: I.B. Tauris 2009 ISBN: 978 1 84511 940 9 UK£15.99 240pp (Review copy supplied by I.B.…

David Welky, The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0801890444 US$45.00 (pb) 448pp (Review copy supplied by…

Steven M. Sanders, Miami Vice (TV Milestones series). Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8143-3419-5 US$14.95 (pb) 128pp (Review copy supplied by Wayne State University Press) “Why does Miami Vice matter?”…

Dina Iordanova and Ruby Cheung (eds), Film Festivals and Imagined Communities. Dundee: St Andrews Film Studies, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9563730-1-4 AU$37.00 (pb) 286pp (Review copy supplied by St Andrews Film Studies)…

Charles Maland, City Lights (BFI Film Classics). London: BFI Publishing, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-1844571758 US$14.95 (pb) 128pp (Review copy supplied by Macmillan) Charles Maland’s Chaplin and American Culture: The Evolution of a Star…

Jerad Walters and Marco Lanzagorta (eds), Studies in the Horror Film: Night of the Living Dead. Lakewood: Centipede Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-933618-32-6 US$125 (hb) 368pp (Review copy supplied by Centipede…

Thomas Waugh, Michael Brendan Baker and Ezra Winton (eds), Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010 ISBN 9780773536630 CA$34.95 (pb) 574pp…

Giorgio Bertellini, Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape and the Picturesque. Indiana University Press, 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22128-5 US$24.95 (pb) 464pp (Review copy supplied by Indiana University Press) “Southernism: The…

Tom De Haven, Our Hero: Superman on Earth (Icons of America). Yale University Press, 2010 ISBN: 9780300118179 US$24.00 (hb) 240pp (Review copy supplied by Yale University Press) The final chapter of…

Barbara Creed, Darwin’s Screens: Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time and Sexual Display in the Cinema. Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-522-85709-2 AU$49.99 232pp (Review copy supplied by Melbourne University…

CineBlitz, Love and Longing in Hindi Cinema. VJM Media: Mumbai, 2009 ISBN: 978-81-908829-0-5 US$40 (hb) 206pp (Review copy supplied by D.K.Agencies) Love and Longing in Hindi Cinema (hereafter LLHC) is a glossy…

Steven Mintz and Randy W. Roberts (eds.), Hollywood’s America: Twentieth Century America Through Film (Fourth Edition). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-4051-9003-9 AU$47.95 (pb) 370pp (Review copy supplied by Wiley-Blackwell publishers)…

Geoff King, New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction. London: I.B. Tauris, 2009 (first published 2002) ISBN 1 86064 749 9 UK£18.99 (pb) 296pp (Review copy supplied by I.B. Tauris) All the…

Rebecca M. Schreiber, Cold War Exiles in Mexico: US Dissidents and the Culture of Critical Resistance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4308-0 US$22.50 (pb) 320pp (Review copy supplied…

John Berra (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Japan. Bristol: UK: Intellect Books, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1841503356 UK£16.00 (pb) 350pp (Review copy supplied by Intellect Books) According to the editorial introduction, this…