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Issue 8 – Reviews

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The Undertaker: Gilberto Perez’s The Material Ghost: Films and their Medium

  • Post author:Adrian Martin
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
  • Post category:Issue 8 - Reviews

The Undertaker: Gilberto Perez's The Material Ghost: Films and their Medium (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998) ISBN 0 8018 5673 6 465 pp (Review copy supplied by John Hopkins…

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An Autobiography of British Cinema

  • Post author:Sue Harper
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
  • Post category:Issue 8 - Reviews

Brian McFarlane, An Autobiography of British Cinema Methuen, 1997 ISBN 0 413 70520 X 656 pp A$39.95 (paper) (Review copy supplied by Random House) Uploaded 12 November 1999 This book…

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The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Yukiyukite Shingun) 

  • Post author:Chris Berry
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
  • Post category:Issue 8 - Reviews

Jeffrey Ruoff and Kenneth Ruoff, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Yukiyukite Shingun) Trowbridge, UK: Flicks Books, 1998 ISBN 0948911050. 57 pp. £ 9.9.5 stg (paper) (Review copy supplied by…

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Film, Form and Culture

  • Post author:Thierry Jutel
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
  • Post category:Issue 8 - Reviews

Robert Kolker, Film, Form and Culture CD-Rom and book. University of Maryland: McGraw Hill College, 1998 ISBN 0 0756170 21 US$34.80 (Review copy supplied by McGraw-Hill) Uploaded 12 November 1999 At…

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Disaster and Memory: Celebrity Culture and the Crisis of Hollywood Cinema

  • Post author:Arthur Lindley
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
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Wheeler Winston Dixon, Disaster and Memory: Celebrity Culture and the Crisis of Hollywood Cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999 ISBN: 0 231 11317 X 182pp US$16.50 (paper) US$42.50 (cloth)…

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Jane Campion: Interviews

  • Post author:Harriet Margolis
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
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Virginia Wright Wexman, Jane Campion: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi, 1999 216pp ISBN 1 57806 082 6 US$45.00 (cloth) ISBN 1 57806 083 4 US$18.00 (paper) (Review copy supplied by…

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Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order

  • Post author:David Sanjek
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
  • Post category:Issue 8 - Reviews

Stuart Klawans, Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order. London/New York, Cassell, 1999. ISBN 0 3047005 41 188 pp. US$19.95 (paper) Uploaded 12 November 1999 There are occasions when the…

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Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement 

  • Post author:Felicity Collins
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
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B. Ruby Rich Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement. Duke University Press, Durham and London, 1998 ISBN 0-8223-2121-1 448pp US$18.95 (paper) (Review copy supplied by Duke…

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The Art of Taking a Walk: Flanerie, Literature and Film in Weimar Culture

  • Post author:Lisa Coulthard
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
  • Post category:Issue 8 - Reviews

Anke Gleber, The Art of Taking a Walk: Flanerie, Literature and Film in Weimar Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-691-00238-X 304pp. US$19.95 (paper) (Review copy supplied by Princeton…

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Body Horror: Photojournalism, Catastrophe and War

  • Post author:Bruce J. Evensen
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
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John Taylor, Body Horror: Photojournalism, Catastrophe and War. Manchester University Press, 1998 ISBN 0-7190-37220 216pp. £45.00 stg. (cloth) £15.99 stg. (paper) (Review copy supplied by Manchester University Press) Uploaded 12…

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American Gothic : New Interventions in a National Narrative

  • Post author:Wendy Haslem
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
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Robert K. Martin & Eric Savoy (eds.), American Gothic : New Interventions in a National Narrative. Iowa, University of Iowa Press, 1998. ISBN 0 877456 224 US$32.95 (cloth) 265pp Uploaded…

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Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan

  • Post author:Richard Maltby
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
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Sam B Girgus, Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan. Cambridge University Press, 1998 ISBN 0521 1625521 A$33.95 (paper) Uploaded 12 November 1999…

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Family Fictions: Representations of the Family in 1980s Hollywood Cinema

  • Post author:Margaret Nixon
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
  • Post category:Issue 8 - Reviews

Sarah Harwood, Family Fictions: Representations of the Family in 1980s Hollywood Cinema. London: Macmillan Press, 1997. ISBN 0-333-64844-7. 265 pp. A$39.95 (paper) (Review copy supplied by Macmillan Education Australia) Uploaded…

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Close up, 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism

  • Post author:Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
  • Post category:Issue 8 - Reviews

James Donald, Anne Friedberg & Laura Marcus (ed), Close up, 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism. London: Cassell, 1998. ISBN 0691004625 256pp US$19.95 (paper) (Review copy received from Princeton University Press) Uploaded…

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The Films of Gillian Armstrong

  • Post author:Patrice Petro
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
  • Post category:Issue 8 - Reviews

Felicity Collins, The Films of Gillian Armstrong. Melbourne: The Moving Image no. 6, Atom, 1999. ISBN 1 876467 037 98pp A$19.95 (paper) (Review copy received from Australian Teachers of Media)…

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Second Take: Australian Film-makers Talk

  • Post author:Rick Thompson
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
  • Post category:Issue 8 - Reviews

Raffaele Caputo and Geoff Burton, Second Take: Australian Film-makers Talk. St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1999. ISBN 1 86448 765 8 342 pp A$24.95 (paper) (Review copy supplied by Allen…

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City of Dreams: The Making and Unmaking of Universal Pictures

  • Post author:Timothy R. White
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
  • Post category:Issue 8 - Reviews

Bernard F. Dick, City of Dreams: The Making and Unmaking of Universal Pictures. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1997 ISBN 0813120160. US$29.95 249pp Uploaded 12 November 1999 Bernard F.…

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Contemporary Spanish Cinema

  • Post author:Sophy Williams
  • Post published:December 22, 2014
  • Post category:Issue 8 - Reviews

Barry Jordan and Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas, Contemporary Spanish Cinema. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1998. 216pp ISBN 0 7190 4412 X £35.00 stg. (cloth) ISBN 0 7190 4413 8…

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