Book Reviews
Pride and Prejudice: Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
Not long after joining the staff of The New Yorker in 1968, Pauline Kael wrote a review of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George
Wild/Lives: Trickster, Place and Liminality on Screen by Terrie Waddell
In the late 19th century, film as a technology, art form and social phenomenon and psychoanalysis as theoretical and practical working with untamed parts of
Timeless or Timely – The Perils of Editing a Queer Film Classics Series: Word is Out by Greg Youmans; Montreal Main by Thomas Waugh and Jason Garrison; Zero Patience by Susan Knabe and Wendy Gay Pearson
I imagine editing a book series is somewhat akin to curating an art show or even a film retrospective: in all three cases the curators/editors
Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin by William Beard; and Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin edited by David Church
At the time of writing we are but a few weeks out from the 84th Academy Awards. Extraordinarily, the two films most likely to be
New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past, edited by Alistair Fox, Barry Keith Grant, and Hilary Radner
“[T]he space in which historical and cinematic narratives intersect remains an insufficiently examined but potentially fecund area of study.” (Reid Perkins cited on p. 16)
Addressing the Political to the Personal: Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness, and the Queer Moving Image by Roger Hallas
As film scholar Jane Gaines notes in her groundbreaking article “Political Mimesis” (1), documentaries have a reputation for being a catalyst for social change, yet
The Newest New Wave: New Austrian Film edited by Robert von Dassanowsky and Oliver C. Speck
Is there an Austrian National Cinema? The concept of national cinema has always been difficult to pin down. Especially in a country whose domestic market
The 21st Century Screenplay: A Comprehensive Guide to Writing Tomorrow’s Films by Linda Aronson; Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice by Steven Maras
The study of screenwriting has become increasingly popular at Australian universities, and a perpetual question for the screenwriting lecturer is what sources are appropriate as
Better off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human edited by Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro
How often have we longed for well-researched and documented scholarly works on zombie literature and films? And how equally often have we been disappointed by
Twentieth Century Prodigal Son: Nicholas Ray – The Glorious Failure of an American Director by Patrick McGilligan
In Bigger Than Life (1956) schoolteacher Ed Avery fragments in the broken medicine-cabinet mirror that his wife Lou furiously slams shut when in a pharmaceutically
