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An Alternative to Haptic Cinema: Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema, by Greg Hainge

Troy Michael Bordun
June 2018
Book Reviews
Issue 87
In the first book-length study of French filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux, Greg Hainge meticulously outlines and details the director’s œuvre, in a...
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Subjectivity, Spectatorship and Social Change: The Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century, by Brian Winston, Gail Vanstone and Wang Chi

Katherine Balsley
June 2018
Book Reviews
Issue 87
In the fall of 2017, I was approached by a colleague at the public liberal arts college where I teach film studies and production. My colleague, a...
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Road Trip Through A Cinematically-Constructed America: The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema, 1960-2000 by Christian B. Long

Shannon Scott
June 2018
Book Reviews
Issue 87
For film scholars interested in the narrative settings of cinema examined through a “cultural materialist approach to film history” (p. 4),...
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Iron Roses: Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorgical Cinema of Jean Rollin, ed. Samm Deighan

Dean Brandum
March 2018
Book Reviews
Issue 86
Like many, I was aware of the films of the French director Jean Rollin long before I viewed any of his work. It would have been some time in the...
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From the Banal to the Extreme… and Back Again: Troubled Everyday: The Aesthetics of Violence and the Everyday in European Art Cinema by Alison Taylor

Felicity Chaplin
March 2018
Book Reviews
Issue 86
The sustained critical success of auteur directors like Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier, the emergence in the 1990s and 2000s of the “new...
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The Cinema Hypothesis: Teaching Cinema in the Classroom and Beyond, by Alain Bergala

Tony McKibbin
March 2018
Book Reviews
Issue 86
If Bazin's classic essay collection was titled What is Cinema?, along comes contemporary French critic Alain Bergala asking how the subject should be...
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Re-framing the city: Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums, by Igor Krstić

Tim O’Farrell
March 2018
Book Reviews
Issue 86
Most academic literature on cinema uses familiar framing mechanisms such as author studies, national cinema or genre lenses. A less typical...
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Against Auteurism: Cinéma Militant: Political Filmmaking and May 1968, by Paul Douglas Grant

Michael Sandlin
March 2018
Book Reviews
Issue 86
Cinéma Militant is academic and film historian Paul Douglas Grant’s admirable attempt to recover and reconsider the long-overlooked cadre of...
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Thinking Back, Thinking Forward: Utopian Television: Rossellini, Watkins, and Godard Beyond Cinema, by Michael Cramer

Jonathan Wright
March 2018
Book Reviews
Issue 86
Michael Cramer’s new book, Utopian Television, is an impressively constructed work of scholarship that does more than display certain utopian...
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Defining the Cinematic Essay: The Essay Film by Elizabeth A. Papazian & Caroline Eades, and Essays on the Essay Film by Nora M. Alter & Timothy Corrigan

Katherine Balsley
December 2017
Book Reviews
Issue 85
  From 2011 until 2015, I taught a course entitled “Documentary Production” at a small liberal arts college north of Chicago. Rather than...
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Ici et ailleurs: Decentring France by Gemma King

James Waters
December 2017
Book Reviews
Issue 85
“Cinema is the art of ghosts, the battle of phantoms. That’s what I think cinema is about, when it’s not boring. It’s the art of allowing...
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The Toad and the Insect: On Mark Bartholomew’s Adcreep: The Case Against Modern Marketing

Nafis Shafizadeh
December 2017
Book Reviews
Issue 85
Several years ago, my wife and I spent a fall week in a remote cabin in the hills of Big Sur. We spent the time mostly enjoying the seclusion of the...
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