Book Reviews
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Book Reviews
Contents Dimitrios Latsis on Film, Art, New Media: Museum without Walls? Kath Dooley on The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn From Contemporary French
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To Sign One’s Life (With Cinema) Francesco Rosi, Giuseppe Tornatore. Io lo Chiamo Cinematografo.
In the midst of one of his conversations with fellow director Giuseppe Tornatore, Francesco Rosi interrupts his own argument and says: ‘You should have called this book A life,
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Angela Dalle Vacche (ed), Film, Art, New Media: Museum without Walls?
A salient characteristic of theoretical discourse in any field is its cyclical nature. Debates of one generation of theorists are mirrored in their time’s scholarship,
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Giorgio Mangiamele. Cinematographer of the Italian Migrant Experience
After years of neglect, the story and films of Giorgio Mangiamele has now become the object of wider attention with the release of a DVD
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Goldsmith B, Ward S and O’Regan T, 2010, Local Hollywood: Global Film Production and the Gold Coast
In 1988 Warner Roadshow Studios opened on the Gold Coast in south-east Queensland, with four soundstages and other facilities to support film and television production.
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Jedda by Jane Mills
In her new book Jane Mills reinterprets and critiques one of Australia’s most controversial film classics, Jedda (Charles Chauvel, 1955). This book belongs to the
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Alexander Kluge: ‘something almost monstrous in so much talent’
Alexander Kluge: Raw Materials for the Imagination by Tara Forrest (ed.) Is there anybody on the face of the Earth, in any field of the arts
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The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn From Contemporary French Actresses by Mick LaSalle
In 2008 French actress Catherine Deneuve (then aged sixty-four) made her 100th screen appearance in Arnaud Desplechin’s Un Conte de Noel/A Christmas Tale. In the
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The Confessions of a Justified Filmgoer
J. Hoberman’s Film After Film: Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema? In Totally, Tenderly, Tragically, critic and essayist Phillip Lopate says, “it isn’t that I’m
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Book Reviews
Contents Nicholas Godfrey on The long game: Conversations with independent iconoclasts Roger Corman, George A. Romero, and Charles Burnett Douglas Gomery on America’s Corporate Art: