Larger than Life: Movie Stars of the 1950s
R. Barton Palmer (ed.), Larger than Life: Movie Stars of the 1950s Rutgers University Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-8135-4767-1 US$24.95 (pb) 272pp (Review copy supplied by Rutgers University Press) Larger Than…
History By Hollywood
Robert Brent Toplin, History By Hollywood (2nd ed). Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-252-07689-3 (US)$25.00 (pb) 280pp (Review copy supplied by University of Illinois Press) When the first…
Badiou and Cinema
Alex Ling, Badiou and Cinema Edinburgh University Press, 2011 ISBN: 9 780 7486411 30 UK£65.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by Edinburgh University Press) Modern philosophy has experienced two major changes…
A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film
Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer, A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-8135-5060-2 US$27.95(pb) 312pp (Review copy supplied by Rutgers University…
Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema
Robert J. Corber, Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema Duke University Press, 2011 ISBN 978-0-8223-4947-1 US$23.95(pb) 225pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Cold War Femme…
Mike Leigh
Sean O’Sullivan, Mike Leigh Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-252-07819-4 US$22.00 (pb) 208pp (Review copy supplied by University of Illinois Press) Not many films that run for 129…
Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema
Leger Grindon, Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-60473-988-6 324 pp US$55.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by University Press of Mississippi)…
Minding Movies: Observations on the art, craft, and business of filmmaking
David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, Minding Movies: Observations on the art, craft, and business of filmmaking Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011 ISBN: 9 780226066 998 US$22.50 (pb) 312pp (Review…
Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses
Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener, Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses Routledge, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-415-80101-0 US$39.95 (pb) 226pp (Review copy supplied by Routledge) Any publication with Thomas Elsaesser’s name…
Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue: Eight Reflections on Cinema
Murray Pomerance, Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue: Eight Reflections on Cinema Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011 ISBN 978-0520266865 300pp US$29.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) Writing…
Saving Cinema: The Politics of Preservation
Caroline Frick, Saving Cinema: The Politics of Preservation New York, Oxford University Press, 2011 ISBN13: 9780195368116 US$27.95 (pb) 232pp (Review copy supplied by Oxford University Press) Compared to the vast…
Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: George Méliès’s Trip to the Moon
Matthew Solomon (ed.), Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: George Méliès’s Trip to the Moon Albany: SUNY Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4384-3580-0 $29.95 (pb) 271pp (Review copy supplied by SUNY press)…
Historical Dictionary of American Cinema
M. Keith Booker, Historical Dictionary of American Cinema Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2011 ISBN: 978 0 8108 7192 2 US$85.00 (hb) 477pp (Review copy supplied by The Scarecrow…
The Dark Mirror: Psychiatry and Film Noir
Marlisa Santos, The Dark Mirror: Psychiatry and Film Noir Lexington Books, 2011 ISBN13: 978-0-7391-3666-9 US$27.95 (pb) 171pp (Review copy supplied by Lexington Books) The Dark Mirror offers readers an in-depth…
D.A Pennebaker
Keith Beattie, D.A Pennebaker University of Illinois Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-252-07829-3 US$25,00 (pb) 192pp (Review copy supplied by University of Illinois Press) The image on the front cover of an…
Technologies of History: Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past
Steve F. Anderson, Technologies of History: Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Press, 2011. ISBN: 9 781611680 034 US$35 (pb) 210pp (Review copy…
Je t’aime…moi non plus: Franco-British cinematic relations
Lucy Mazdon and Catherine Wheatley (eds.), Je t’aime...moi non plus: Franco-British cinematic relations New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010 ISBN 978-1-84545-749-5 US$95.00 (hb) 289pp (Review copy supplied by Berghahn…
Nicholas Ray: An American Journey
Bernard Eisenschitz, Nicholas Ray: An American Journey. (Tr. by Tom Milne.) University of Minnesota Press, 2011 ISBN 978-0-8166-7621-7 US $24.95 (pb) 624pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press)…
Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy
Vicki Mayer, Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-8223-5007-1 US$22.95(pb) 242pp (Review copy supplied by Duke…
Science Fiction Film, Television, and Adaptation: Across the Screens
J. P Telotte & Gerald Duchovnay (eds.), Science Fiction Film, Television, and Adaptation: Across the Screens New York and Oxon: Routledge, 2011 ISBN13: 978-0-415-88719-9 US$125.00 (hb) 212pp (Review copy supplied…
Post-Classical Cinema: An International Poetics of Film Narration
Eleftheria Thanouli, Post-Classical Cinema: An International Poetics of Film Narration. London: Wallflower Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-906660-09-3 Au$44.95 (pb) 224pp Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press. Eleftheria Thanouli opens her book…