Category Archive for: ‘Issue 41 – Reviews’

“Traces and Tracings of Otherness” Deane Williams The Cinema of Sean Penn: In and out of Place London: Wallflower Press, 2016 ISBN: 9780231176255 AU$49.95 (pb) 143 pp By my count The Cinema of Sean Penn: In and out of Place is Deane Williams’ sixth or seventh book publication, and when watching an academic’s oeuvre build it is interesting to guess …

Dominic Lennard Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film State University of New York Press, 2015 ISBN: 9781 4384 5328 6 US$24.95 (pb) 195pp (review copy supplied by SUNY Press) Andrew Scahill notes in his 2010 essay on The Exorcist (1973), wittily titled “Demons Are a Girl’s Best Friend”, that the child-as-monster in horror film has …

George Kouvaros Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank’s American Cinema Minneapolis, London; University of Minnesota Press, 2015 ISBN: 978 0 8166-9559 1 $US25.00 (pb) $US15.23 e-book 225 pp I’m always doing the same images looking outside trying to look inside. Trying to tell something that’s true. But maybe nothing is really true except what’s out there. And what’s out there is …

Adrian Danks (ed.) A Companion to Robert Altman Malden: Wiley Blackwell, 2015 ISBN: 9781118288900 US$195.00 (hb) 522pp It’s a great honour to be asked to launch this book, and to have the chance to pay tribute to Adrian Danks, someone I’ve looked up to for many years as a crucial figure in Melbourne film culture. A few months ago I …

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Suspiria (Devil’s Advocates) UK: Auteur Publishing, 2015 ISBN: 978-0993238475 AU$27.95 (pb) 120pp (review copy supplied by Auteur publishing) Almost four decades after its initial release, Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977) continues to demand attention. In her contribution to the Devil’s Advocates series, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas has crafted an insightful exploration of this Italian cult horror film in Suspiria (2015). The …