Issue 55
Focus on Eastwood: Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity by Drucilla Cornell, Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood by Howard Hughes, Clint Eastwood: Evolution of a Filmmaker by John H. Foote
Since the mid-1970s, Clint Eastwood’s life and career have provided material for innumerable books, documentaries and magazine articles. While writers initially focused upon his role
Encountering Cinema: Casablanca: Movies and Memory by Marc Augé
“Some strange destiny”, John Thompson claims in The Cinema Book, “seems to have determined that the cinema is written about in France with superior perceptiveness
Film Curatorship: Archives, Museums, and the Digital Marketplace edited by Paolo Cherchi Usai, David Francis, Alexander Horwath and Michael Loebenstein
It’s tough being an archivist these days. The digital revolution has shaken the profession to its very foundations. All those hallowed archival values like originality,
Diasporas of Australian Cinema edited by Catherine Simpson, Renata Murawska and Anthony Lambert
There have always been earnest concerns for the relevance and representativeness of the Australian cinema: over the past few decades since feature production was re-established,
Screen Theorizing Today: A Celebration of Screen’s Fiftieth Anniversary edited by Annette Kuhn
It is difficult to overstate the impact the British journal Screen has had on the discipline of film and television studies. For the past 50
Correspondence
Letter from Nile Southern on his father, Terry Southern's, contribution to Easy Rider. And, Bernard Eisenschitz's letter alerts us to more of value on Eric
“‘I Build a Jigsaw Puzzle of a Dream-Germany’: An Interview with German Filmmaker Dominik Graf”
On the evidence of this absorbing and articulate interview alone, Dominik Graf is worthy of being better know outside the borders of the German speaking
The Berlin School – A Collage
In their our words a number of individuals closely associated with the Berlin School offer a informed panorama of ideas regarding the history, aesthetics and
Running on Failure: Post-Politics, Democracy and Parapraxis in Thomas Elsaesser´s Film Theory
With a long and distinguished body of writing to his name, Thomas Elsaesser is justly recognised as one of the foremost film historians and critical
Petra’s Place
An apartment, several women, and much angst make up the elements to one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most alluring and contentious films