Cinema
Alain Badiou, Cinema Cambridge, Maiden, ma: Polity, 2013 ISBN: 978-0-7456-5568-0 AUD$34.95 (pb) 320pp (Review copy supplied by Polity publishers) “Alain Badiou’s Cinema: From Stupidity to Hope” For Badiou our society…
Beautiful Fighting Girl (trans. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson)
Saitō Tamaki, Beautiful Fighting Girl, (trans. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011 ISBN: 978 0 8166 5451 2 US$19.95 (pb) 213pp (Review copy supplied by…
Steve McQueen: The Go-Between
Steve McQueen: Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland 16 March – 1 September 2013 ‘Steve McQueen’ at the Schaulager, Basel was a major survey exhibition of nearly all the artist’s work in moving…
Working in the Global Film and Television Industries: Creativity, Systems, Space, Patronage
Andrew Dawson and Sean P. Holmes (eds.) Working in the Global Film and Television Industries: Creativity, Systems, Space, Patronage Bloomsbury publishers, 2012 ISBN 13: 9781780930237 US$32 (pb) 224pp (Review copy supplied…
The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema
Daisuke Miyao, The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013 ISBN 978 0 8223 5422 2 US$27.95 (pb) 400pp (Review copy supplied by…
Taking Place: Location and the Moving Image
John David Rhodes and Elena Gorfinkel (eds.) Taking Place: Location and the Moving Image Minneapolis London: University of Minnesota Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-8166-6517-4 (Paperback) 376 pp US$27.50 (pb) (Review copy…
Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford and Joshua Green, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture New York: NYU Press, 2013 ISBN: 9 7808 1474350 8 $29.95 (US) 352…
Béla Tarr, The Time After, Translated from French by Erik Beranek
Jacques Rancière, Béla Tarr, The Time After , Translated from French by Erik Beranek, Minneapolis: Univocal, 2013 ISBN: 9781937561154 US$19.95 (pb) 81pp Erik Beranek’s translation of Jacques Rancière's Béla Tarr, The Time…
Education in the School of Dreams. Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film
Jennifer Lynn Peterson, Education in the School of Dreams. Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film Durham/London: Duke University Press, 2013 ISBN 978 0 8223 5453 6 US$27.95 (pb) 369 pages (Review…
Digital Memory and the Archive
Wolfgang Ernst, Digital Memory and the Archive Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013 ISBN: 978 0 8166 7767 2 US $25.00 (pb) 265pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota…
Hollywood’s New Yorker: The Making of Martin Scorsese
Marc Raymond, Hollywood’s New Yorker: The Making of Martin Scorsese. Albany: SUNY Press, 2013. ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4572-4 US$26.95 (pb) 261pp (Review copy supplied by SUNY Press) Few contemporary Hollywood directors are…
Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1, Critical Positions
Noel King, Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams, Australian Film Theory and Criticism, volume 1, Critical Positions Bristol: Intellect Books, 2013. ISBN 978-1-84150-581-7 US$30 (pb) 192pp (Review copy supplied by Intellect…
The Utopia of Film: Cinema and its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik
Christopher Pavsek, The Utopia of Film: Cinema and its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik New York: Columbia University Press, 2013 ISBN: 978-0-231-16099-5 $29.50 (pb) 304pp (Review copy supplied by Columbia…
Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio
Timothy D. Taylor, Mark Katz, Tony Grajeda (eds.) Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio Duke University Press, 2013 US$27.95 (pb) 432pp…
Sustainable Projections: Concepts in Film Festival Management
Alex Fischer, Sustainable Projections: Concepts in Film Festival Management St Andrews, Scotland: St Andrews Film Studies, 2013 ISBN: 978-0-9563730-8-3 UK£17.99 (pb) 157pp Available from www.stafs.org (Review copy supplied by St.…