Walking with the Wind: Poems by Abbas Kiarostami, Trans. by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkad and Michael Beard. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. Trade paper: $19.95. 240pp. ISBN 0-67400-844-8. It is April 2000.[…]
Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race During the Civil Rights Struggle, by Allison Graham. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Cloth, $39.95, 224pp. ISBN 0-80186-615-4. If you watch Hollywood[…]
The Money Shot: Cinema, Sin, and Censorship, by Jane Mills. Annandale, New South Wales, Australia. Pluto Press, 2001. Cloth, $32.95 (U.S.D./AUD), 255pp. ISBN 1-86403-142-5. It is perhaps significant to Jane[…]
Addicted: The Myth and Menace of Drugs in Film, ed. by Jack Stevenson. London: Creation Books, 2000. Trade paper, $19.95, 272pp, ISBN 1-84068-023-7 America’s War on Drugs has been raging[…]
Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall, by Chris Fujiwara. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Trade paper, $18.95, 328pp, ISBN 0-8018-6561-1. Jacques Tourneur has long been a favorite of horror fans, French[…]
Close Up: Iranian Cinema Past Present and Future, by Hamid Dabashi. Trade paper. New York: Verso Books. Cloth: $70.00. Trade paper: $20.00. 2001, 320pp. ISBN 1-85984-332-8 In 1995, introducing one[…]
“It’s Only a Movie!”: Films and Critics in American Culture, by Raymond J. Haberski Jr. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Cloth. $27.50. 2001. 264pp. ISBN 0-8131-2193-0 “It’s Only a Movie!” was[…]
The Western Genre: From Lordsburg to Big Whiskey, by John Saunders. London: Wallflower Press, £11.99. New York: Columbia University Press, $16.95. 2001, 144pp, ISBN 1-903364-12-4 The best film books combine[…]
Searching for John Ford: A Life, by Joseph McBride. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001. Cloth, $40.00. ISBN 0-312-24232-8. John Ford, born Sean Aloysius O’Fearna in Cape Elizabeth, Maine in[…]
Actors Talk: Profiles and Stories from the Acting Trade, by Dennis Brown. New York: Limelight Editions, 1999. 280 pages, $25.00, ISBN 0-87910-287-X. I hate watching actors talk about acting. Humor, intelligence, and[…]
France on Film: Reflections on Popular French Cinema, edited by Lucy Mazdon. London: Wallflower Press (£13.99)/New York: Columbia University Press ($55.00 cloth, $20.00 trade paper), 2001, 196pp. Since the Lumieres[…]
My Son Divine, by Frances Milstead, with Kevin Heffernan and Steve Yeager. New York: Alyson Books, 2001. 256 pages, $18.95. ISBN 1555835945 Divine has been dead for 13 years, and[…]
The Nashville Chronicles: The Making of Robert Altman’s Masterpiece, by Jan Stuart. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. 366 pages, $26.00 Fans of 1975’s Nashville, of which there are many, have reasons[…]
Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood, by Mick LaSalle. Thomas Dunne Books, 279 pages, $24.95. While hardly a household word, even among some cinephiles, pre-Code cinema — those “naughty” Hollywood[…]
On Cukor, by Gavin Lambert, edited by Robert Trachtenberg. Rizzoli, 208 pp., $50.00. One day in the early 1980s, George Cukor, the octogenarian director of such celebrated Hollywood films as Dinner at[…]
Celluloid Mavericks: A History of American Independent Film, by Greg Merritt. Thunder’s Mouth Press. Paperback. Suggested list price: $18.95. There are plenty of film histories, but not so many of[…]
Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film, edited by Ellis Hanson (NC: Duke University Press, 1999), Trade paper, $19.00 U.S., ISBN 0-82232-342-7 Out Takes is the latest offering from Duke[…]
Back Lot: Growing Up with the Movies, by Maurice Rapf. (Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1999). Cloth, $39.50. 211pp. ISBN 0-8108-3583-5 Maurice Rapf was a communist. He also forced[…]
Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood, by Mark A. Vieira. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999). Cloth, $39.95, 340pp. ISBN 0-81094-475-8 “Pre-Code” is the catchall term, now familiar to[…]
The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Things, by Brad Steiger. (Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1999). Trade paperback, $19.95, 397pp. ISBN 1057859-078-7 The werewolf, like most other monsters of folklore, has[…]
