Nicole Kidman: Stardom, Performance and Persona Tessa Chudy March 2014 Book Reviews I started reading Pam Cook’s study of Nicole Kidman at the same time that I started listening to the new David Bowie album. The song, “The Stars (Are out Tonight)”, with its arch and scathing portrait of remote...
The Psychology of Seeing and the Cinema of Roman Polanski by Davide Caputo Tessa Chudy November 2012 Book Reviews The films of Roman Polanski make a provocative and challenging body of work, but one which is also difficult to separate from the almost melodramatic details of Polanski’s own life. It is also difficult to alig...
Film Noir: Hard-Boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization by Jennifer Fay and Justus Neiland Tessa Chudy March 2011 Book Reviews The fabulous and fascinatingly contested thing that is film noir is not only alive and kicking, it appears to be undergoing something of a re-evaluation in critical thought. Gone is the stubborn insistence that...
