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Archive: Book Reviews, May 2003

African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze By Olivier Barlet
Reviewer: Martin Stollery

An Argentine Passion: María Luisa Bemberg and her Films By John King, Sheila Whitaker and Rosa Bosch (eds.)
Reviewer: Bernard McGuirk

Anatomy of Film, Third Edition By Bernard F. Dick
Reviewer: Bob Rehak

Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation By Susan J. Napier
Reviewer: Jay McRoy

The Bare Facts Video Guide By Craig Hosoda
Reviewer: Rebecca D. Feasey

Blockbuster TV: Must-See Sitcoms in the Network Era By Janet Staiger
Reviewer: Brett Mills

Britain and the American Cinema By Tom Ryall
Reviewer: Sarah Street

Celluloid Indians By Jacqueline Kilpatrick
Reviewer: Ragan Rhyne

Close Up: Iranian Cinema Past, Present and Future By Hamid Dabashi
Reviewer: Lina Khatib

The Cognitive Semiotics of Film By Warren Buckland
Reviewer: Tico Romao

The Documentary Film Movement: An Anthology By Ian Aitken (ed.)
Reviewer: John W. Campbell

Fan Cultures By Matt Hills
Reviewer: Lincoln Geraghty

Film Music: Critical Approaches By K. J. Donnelly (ed.)
Reviewer: Annette Davison

Hearing Film: Tracking Identifications in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music By Anahid Kassabian
Reviewer: David Sanjek

Hollywood Spectatorship: Changing Perceptions of Cinema Audiences By Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby (eds.)
Reviewer: Stephen Harper

How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, and Multimedia: Language, History, Theory. (Third Edition, Completely Revised and Expanded) By James Monaco
Reviewer: Stacy Gillis

Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies By Chris Holmlund
Reviewer: Rebecca Janicker

Korean Broadcasting Institute Report 2001 By Korean Broadcasting Institute
Reviewer: Jeongmee Kim

Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies By Matthew Tinkcom and Amy Villarejo (eds.)
Reviewer: David Inglis

The Movies as History: Visions of the Twentieth Century By David W. Ellwood (ed.)
Reviewer: Lincoln Geraghty

New Documentary: A Critical Introduction By Stella Bruzzi
Reviewer: Heather Nunn

New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision By John Sinclair, Elizabeth Jacka, Stuart Cunningham (eds.)
Reviewer: Ragan Rhyne

The Oxford Companion to Australian Film By Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer and Ina Bertrand (eds.)
Reviewer: Julia Hammett-Jamart

Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology By Jay Ruby
Reviewer: David Murray

Political Film: The Dialectics of Third Cinema By Mike Wayne
Reviewer: Martin Stollery

Post-War Cinema and Modernity: A Film Reader By John Orr and Olga Taxidou (eds.)
Reviewer: Richard Armstrong

Reading Hollywood: Spaces and Meanings in American Film By Deborah Thomas
Reviewer: Sarah Heaton

Retrovisions: Reinventing the Past in Film and Fiction By Deborah Cartmell, I.Q. Hunter, and Imelda Whelehan (eds.)
Reviewer: Lincoln Geraghty

Scriptwriting for the Screen By Charlie Moritz & A Poetics for Screenwriters By Lance Lee
Reviewer: Cynthia Baron

A Skin For Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft and Voodoo in Film By Tanya Krzywinska
Reviewer: Brigid Cherry

Spectacular Narratives: Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster By Geoff King
Reviewer: Marlon Kuzmick

Technology and the Logic of American Racism: A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence By Sarah E. Chinn
Reviewer: Richard H. King

Television: An International History By Anthony Smith (ed.) and Richard Paterson (ass. ed)
Reviewer: Michael Curtin

Understanding Disney By Janet Wasko
Reviewer: Paul Grainge

Writing for Radio By Vincent McInerney
Reviewer: Martin Shingler

 

 

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