Book Reviews

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 ...

(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 the ar...

(Stuttgart/London: Edition Axel Menges, 2000) “It is my ultimate goal to establish the German film as the dominant cultural world power.” - Joseph G...

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: F...

A revealing, sensitive response to Lawson's latest work of stories and essays.

Davis praises this recent book, and its rethinking of the relation between film and film criticism.

A lively appreciation of Phelps' latest book on early American comic strips and an astute appraisal of his unique and stylised prose.

Though Dumont's current filmography comprises only two films, Max argues a book length study is certainly not premature.

As a lapsed science fiction fan, I find it frustrating (and not a little depressing) that in spite of the genre's dominance of Hollywood and the incre...

(Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2001) Hmm. Another book about “new media”. I'd like to think that one day I'll be remembered as the scrooge w...

The title of this volume alludes to what is probably the best-known anecdote of John Ford's career. Rising at a Directors Guild meeting in 1950 to spe...

The 1970s have rightly been called the last golden age of American cinema, a reference not only to Hollywood and independent movies of this era but al...

Touch of Evil is “about a nice couple from Hollywood movies who stumble into a film by Orson Welles.” (1) Terry Comito's arresting line is a colourful...

A review of the recent book, The Money Shot, and a wider and thought-provoking discussion of art and criticism.

Part review of recent books on Cassavetes and part discussion of the fiction-documentary, art-life binaries and notions of performance operative in Cassavetes' cinema.

(British Film Institute, 1999) The Eloquence of the Vulgar, a collection of essays by Colin MacCabe recently published by the British Film Institut...

(New York/London: Routledge, 2001) The argument often made about film music and film sound books is that they are scarce when compared with books o...

This latest book pays tribute to legendary American critic Andrew Sarris.

(BFI London 1999) An early book by Raymond Durgnat - a monograph published in 1963 by Motion Publications (London) - was called Nouvelle Vague: the...

Steve Erickson reviews two important books that begin the task of documenting and analysing this dynamic cinema: David Bordwell's Planet Hong Kong and John Charles' The Hong Kong Filmography, 1977-1997.

Reflections on Deleuze's film theory and philosophy.

There are many books on Hitch around - this one is written by the author of The MacGuffin.