Book Reviews
Mother India by Gayatri Chatterjee
(London: British Film Institute, 2002) Gayatri Chatterjee’s book on the Indian epic film Mother India (Mehboob Khan, 1957) is one of a series of books
The Girls in the Back Room: Looking at the Lesbian Bar by Kelly Hankin
(Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2002) This book explores the representation of lesbian bars across various genres of film and in popular US television series.
Moved By Animation – Animation: Genre and Authorship by Paul Wells
(London: Wallflower, 2002) As Chuck Jones reminds us on the back cover of Norman Klein’s Seven Minutes (for my money, still the best book on
Left in the Dark: Film Reviews and Essays, 1988-2001 by Stuart Klawans
(Nation Books/Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2002) Tension marks the allure of superior criticism – ideally, there should be a conflict between text and subtext, between what
The Film Minister – Goebbels and the Cinema in the ‘Third Reich’ by Felix Moeller
(Stuttgart/London: Edition Axel Menges, 2000) “It is my ultimate goal to establish the German film as the dominant cultural world power.” - Joseph Goebbels in
For the Sake of Argument: Responding to Jake Wilson
I write to thank Senses of Cinema and Jake Wilson for giving my current book, How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia, the kind of
Ivan the Terrible by Yuri Tsivian (BFI Classics, 2002); October by Richard Taylor (BFI Classics, 2002)
In the concluding paragraph of Citizen Kane (BFI Classics, 1992), Laura Mulvey argues that this film has, built into its structure, the need to think
Unpacking Clothes: A Review of Costume and Cinema: Dress Codes in Popular Film by Sarah Street
It is only shallow people who fail to judge by appearances. - Oscar Wilde Wilde’s epigram is apt when considering Sarah Street’s Costume and cinema
Atom Egoyan by Carole Desbarats, Jacinto Lageira, Danièle Rivière, Paul Virilio
It seems nothing short of extraordinary that no book-length study of Atom Egoyan by English-language scholars has been published to date. Exhibit A: For over
“Crossing cultures, cinematic and other”: A Review of Laleen Jayamanne’s Toward Cinema and Its Double: Cross-Cultural Mimesis
Davis praises this recent book, and its rethinking of the relation between film and film criticism