Film & History strives to publish timely, insightful reviews of films and of scholarly books on film and history, broadly conceived.
Reviews should be between 500 and 1500 words, and offer a critical assessment of the film’s or book’s value to scholars as well as an overview of its contents. Reviews may be submitted in any format, but are subject to editing to fit Film & History‘s house style. Film & History will consider unsolicited reviews for publication, provided they meet the journal’s standards for length, style, and content.
Interested in reviewing for Film & History? Contact the appropriate editor:
Book Reviews
Kevin Brianton
K.Brianton@latrobe.edu.au
Film Reviews
Rebecca Weeks
rebecca.weeks@mediadesignschool.com
Books to Review (a representative list only)
| Title | Author | Publisher | Copyright |
| 100 Essential Indian Films | Rohit K. Dasgupta and Sangeeta Datta | Rowman & Littlefield | 2019 |
| 1968 And Global Cinema | Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi | Wayne State University Press | 2018 |
| A Critical Companion To Steven Spielberg | Barkman and Sanna | Lexington Books | 2019 |
| Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative | Michael Peter Bolus | Anthem Press | 2019 |
| African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness | Mark A. Reid | Wayne State University Press | 2019 |
| African Cinema and Human Rights | Mette Hjort and Eva Jorholt | Indiana University Press | 2019 |
| American Obscurantism | Peter Lurie | Oxford University Press | 2018 |
| André Bazin’s Film Theory | Angela Dalle Vacche | Oxford University Press | 2020 |
| Animated Personalities | David McGowan | University of Texas Press | 2019 |
| Arab Modernism as World Cinema | Peter Limbrick | University of California Press | 2020 |
| Arctic Cinemas | Lilya Kaganovsky, Scott MacKenzie, Anna Westerstahl Stenport | Indiana University Press | 2019 |
| Audio-Vision | Michel Chion | Columbia University Press | 2019 |
| Beyond Method | Scott Balcerzak | Wayne State University Press | 2018 |
| Big Deal | Kevin Winkler | Oxford University Press | 2018 |
| Blood In The Streets | Austin Fisher | Edinburgh University Press | 2019 |
| Books to Film | Barry Keith Grant | Gale | 2018 |
| Bright Signals | Susan Murray | Duke University Press | 2018 |
| Cartoon Vision | Dan Bashara | University of California Press | 2019 |
| Celluloid Classicism, Early Tamil Cinema and the Making of Modern Bharatanatyam | Hari Krishnan | Wesleyan University Press | 2019 |
| Chinese Revolutionary Cinema: Propaganda, Aesthetics and Internationalsim 1949-1966 | Jessica Ka Yee Chan | I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. | 2019 |
| Cinema Against Doublethink | David Martin-Jones | Routledge | 2019 |
| Cinemagritte | Lucy Fischer | Wayne State University Press | 2019 |
| Cinema of Collaboration | Mariana Ivanova | Berghahn Books | 2020 |
| Cinematic Cryptonymies | Ofer Eliaz | Wayne State University Press | 2018 |
| Clarence Brown: Hollywood’s Forgotten Master | Gwenda Young | University Press of Kentucky | 2018 |
| Clocking Out | Karen Pinkus | University of Minnesota Press | 2020 |
| Cold War Cosmopolitanism | Christina Klein | University of California Press | 2020 |
| Comics and Pop Culture | Barry Keith Grant and Scott Henderson | University of Texas Press | 2019 |
| Coming Together | Ryan Powell | The University of Chicago Press | 2019 |
| Concrete and Countryside | Carmelo Esterrich | University of Pittsburgh Press | 2018 |
| Contemporary French Cinema | Alan Singerman and Michèle Bissière | Hackett Publishing Company | 2018 |
| Creating Interior Atmosphere | Jean Whitehead | Bloomsbury Publishing | 2018 |
| Creativity and Copyright | John L. Geiger & Howard Suber | University of California Press | 2019 |
| Creepshow | Simon Brown | Auteur Publishing | 2019 |
| Criminalization/Assimilation | Phillippa Gates | Rutgers University Press | 2019 |
| Critical Mass | Steven Ungar | University of Minnesota Press | 2018 |
| Dark Forces at Work | Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper | Lexington Books | 2020 |
| Derek Jarman’s Medieval Modern | Robert Mills | D.S. Brewer | 2018 |
| Detecting the South in Fiction, Film & Television | Deborah E. Barker & Theresa Starkey | Louisiana State University Press | 2019 |
| Difference and Orientation: An Alexander Kluge Reader | Richard Langston | Cornell University Press | 2019 |
| Digital Cinema | Stephen Prince | Rutgers University Press | 2019 |
| Documentary Across Platforms | Patricia R. Zimmermann | Indiana University Press | 2019 |
| Docu-Fictions of War | Tatiana Prorokova | University of Nebraska Press | 2018 |
| Double Visions, Double Fictions | Baryon Tensor Posadas | University of Minnesota Press | 2018 |
| Encyclopedia of Best Films: Volume 1, A-J | Jay Robert Nash | Rowman & Littlefield | 2019 |
| Encyclopedia of Best Films: Volume 2, K-R | Jay Robert Nash | Rowman & Littlefield | 2019 |
| Encyclopedia of Best Films: Volume 3, S-U | Jay Robert Nash | Rowman & Littlefield | 2019 |
| Encyclopedia of Best Films: Volume 4, V-Z | Jay Robert Nash | Rowman & Littlefield | 2019 |
| Enduring Images | Morgan Adamson | University of Minnesota Press | 2018 |
| Ennio Morricone | Alessandro De Rosa and Ennio Morricone | Oxford University Press | 2019 |
| Expanding the Black Film Canon: Race and Genre Across Six Decades | Lisa Doris Alexander | University Press of Kansas | 2019 |
| Fascism and Resistance in Italian Cinema | Dominic H. Gavin | Troubador Publishing Ltd. | 2020 |
| Fidel Between The Lines | Laura-Zoë Humphreys | Duke University Press | 2019 |
| Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics | Ryan Pierson | Oxford University Press | 2020 |
| Film And The Historian | Philip Gillett | Cambridge Scholars Publishing | 2019 |
| Film Bodies | Katharina Lindner | I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. | 2018 |
| Film, Music, Memory | Berthold Hoeckner | The University of Chicago Press | 2019 |
| Film Noir Prototypes | Alain Silver & James Ursini | Applause Theatre and Cinema Books | 2018 |
| Flaming Creatures | Constantine Verevis | Wallflower Press | 2020 |
| Foucault At The Movies | Michael Foucault, Patrice Maniglier, Dork Zabunyan | Columbia University Press | 2018 |
| Frame By Frame | Hannah Frank | University of California Press | 2019 |
| Free and Easy? A Defining History of the American Film Musical Genre | Sean Griffin | Wiley Blackwell | 2018 |
| Frenzy | Ian Cooper | Auteur Publishing | 2018 |
| Gender and Sexuality in East German Film | Kyle Frackman and Faye Stewart | Camden House | 2018 |
| Going Viral | Dahlia Schweitzer | Rutgers University Press | 2018 |
| Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film | Carmen A. Serrano | University of New Mexico Press | 2019 |
| Habsburg’s Last War | Hannes Leidinger | University of New Orleans Press | 2018 |
| Happiness by Design | Justus Nieland | University of Minnesota Press | 2020 |
| Historical Dictionary of German Cinema | Robert C. Reimer and Carol J. Reimer | Rowman & Littlefield | 2019 |
| History and Film | Eleftheria Thanouli | Bloomsbury Publishing | 2019 |
| Hollywood Diplomacy | Hye Seung Chung | Rutgers University Press | 2020 |
| Hollywood Goes Latin | Maria Elena de las Carreras and Jan-Christopher Horak | Indiana University Press | 2019 |
| Hollywood Harmony | Frank Lehman | Oxford University Press | 2018 |
| Hollywood Her Story | Jill S. Tietjen, P.E. and Barbara Bridges | Lyons Press | 2019 |
| Hollywood by Hollywood | Steven Cohan | Oxford University Press | 2019 |
| Hollywood in Havana | Megan Feeney | The University of Chicago Press | 2019 |
| Hollywood In San Francisco | Joshua Gleich | University of Texas Press | 2018 |
| Hollywood Math And Aftermath | J.D. Connor | Bloomsbury Publishing | 2018 |
| Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret | Hunter Vaughan | Columbia University Press | 2019 |
| Hooked on Hollywood | Leonard Maltin | GoodKnight Books | 2018 |
| House of Usher | Evert Jan Van Leeuwen | Auteur Publishing | 2019 |
| Imperial Benevolence | Scott Laderman and Tim Gruenewald | University of California Press | 2018 |
| Inception | David Carter | Auteur Publishing | 2019 |
| Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China | Xiao Liu | University of Minnesota Press | 2019 |
| Interpreting Anime | Christopher Bolton | University of Minnesota Press | 2018 |
| It Follows | Joshua Grimm | Auteur Publishing | 2018 |
| Jack Lord | Sylvia D. Lynch | McFarland & Company, Inc. | 2018 |
| James Friedrich and Cathedral Films | Kenneth Suit | Lexington Books | 2018 |
| Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies | Flavia Laviosa | Intellect Ltd. | 2018 |
| Justice on Demand | Tanya Horeck | Wayne State University Press | 2019 |
| Late Westerns | Lee Clark Mitchell | University of Nebraska Press | 2018 |
| Liberating Hollywood | Maya Montañez Smukler | Rutgers University Press | 2019 |
| Lights, Camera, Execution! | Helen J. Knowles, Bruce E. Altschuler & Jaclyn Schildkraut | Lexington Books | 2019 |
| Los Angeles Documentary | Joshua Glick | University of California Press | 2018 |
| Main Street Movies | Martin L. Johnson | Indiana University Press | 2018 |
| Making Images Move | Gregory Zinman | University of California Press | 2020 |
| Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Spike Lee | James F. Scott | Lexington Books | 2019 |
| Media In Mind | Daniel Reynolds | Oxford University Press | 2019 |
| Media In Postapartheid South Africa | Sean Jacobs | Indiana University Press | 2019 |
| Mel Brooks FAQ | Dale Sherman | Applause Books | 2018 |
| Memory, Place and Autobiography | Jill Daniels | Cambridge Scholars Publishing | 2019 |
| Meryl Streep | Alma H. Bond, Ph.D. | Bancroft Press | 2019 |
| Mock Classicism | Nilo Couret | University of California Press | 2018 |
| Monstrous Forms | Adam Charles Hart | Oxford University Press | 2020 |
| Movement Action Image Montage | Luka Arsenjuk | University of Minnesota Press | 2018 |
| Movies, Songs, and Electronic Sound | Charles O’Brien | Indiana University Press | 2019 |
| Movies to See before You Graduate from High School | Michael Howarth | Rowman & Littlefield | 2020 |
| Moving Images On The Margins | Seth Howes | Camden House | 2019 |
| Moving Pictures, Still Lives | James Tweedie | Oxford University Press | 2018 |
| Napoli/New York/Hollywood: Film Between Italy And The United States | Giuliana Muscio | Fordham University Press | 2019 |
| Narrative Humanism | Wyatt Moss-Wellington | Edinburgh University Press | 2019 |
| Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary | Donna Kornhaber | University of Chicago Press | 2020 |
| No End In Sight | Anna Krakus | University of Pittsburgh Press | 2018 |
| Nobody’s Girl Friday | J.E. Smyth | Oxford University Press | 2018 |
| Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere | Anna Westerstahl Stenport and Arne Lunde | Edinburgh University Press | 2019 |
| On The Screen | Ariel Rogers | Columbia University Press | 2019 |
| Palestinian Cinema In The Days Of Revolution | Nadia Yaqub | University of Texas Press | 2018 |
| People Only Die Of Love in Movies: Film Writing by Jim Ridley | Steve Haruch | Vanderbilt University Press | 2018 |
| Perpetrator Cinema | Raya Morag | Columbia University Press | 2020 |
| Phantom Lady, Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, The Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock | Christina Lane | Chicago Review Press | 2020 |
| Politics, Hollywood Style | John Heyrman | Lexington Books | 2018 |
| Posthumous Images | Chad Elias | Duke University Press | 2018 |
| Preston Sturges | Nick Smedley and Tom Sturges | Intellect | 2019 |
| Race And The Revolutionary Impulse In The Spook Who Sat By The Door | Michael T. Martin, David C. Wall and Marilyn Yaquinto | Indiana University Press | 2018 |
| Ray Bolger: More Than a Scarecrow | Holly Van Leuven | Oxford University Press | 2019 |
| Ray by Ray | Nicca Ray | Three Rooms Press | 2020 |
| Red Hot Mama | Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff | University of Texas Press | 2018 |
| Refocus The Films of Barbara Kopple | Jeff Jaeckle and Susan Ryan | Edinburgh University Press | 2019 |
| Reorienting Ozu | Jinhee Choi | Oxford University Press | 2018 |
| Residual Futures | Franz Prichard | Columbia University Press | 2019 |
| Resistance, Heroism, Loss | Thomas Cragin and Laura A. Salsini | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press | 2018 |
| Re-Viewing The Past | Sean D. O’Reilly | Bloomsbury Publishing | 2018 |
| Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema | Ian Christie | The University of Chicago Press | 2019 |
| Robin Wood On The Horror Film | Barry Keith Grant | Wayne State University Press | 2018 |
| Robocop | Omar Ahmed | Auteur Publishing | 2018 |
| Roger Sandall’s Films and Contemporary Anthropology | Lorraine Mortimer | Indiana University Press | 2019 |
| Rollerball | Andrew Nette | Auteur Publishing | 2018 |
| Runaway Hollywood | Daniel Steinhart | University of California Press | 2019 |
| Ruth Beckermann | Eszter Kondor and Michael Loebenstein | Film Museum Synema Publication | 2019 |
| Scenarios II | Werner Herzog | University of Minnesota Press | 2018 |
| Scenarios III | Werner Herzog | University of Minnesota Press | 2019 |
| Scream | Steven West | Auteur Publishing | 2019 |
| Screen Stories | Carl Plantinga | Oxford University Press | 2018 |
| Screened Encounters | Caroline Moine | Berghahn Books | 2018 |
| Screening The Red Army Faction | Christina Gerhardt | Bloomsbury Publishing | 2018 |
| Seeing By Electricity | Doron Galili | Duke University Press | 2020 |
| Sensations of History | James J. Hodge | University of Minnesota Press | 2019 |
| Sensuous Cinema | Kaya Davies Hayon | Bloomsbury Publishing | 2018 |
| Shooting The Somme | Bob Carruthers | Pen and Sword | 2018 |
| Show Trial | Thomas Doherty | Columbia University Press | 2018 |
| Sidney Lumet | Maura Spiegel | St. Martin’s Press | 2019 |
| Silent Cinema | Paolo Cherchi Usai | British Film Institute | 2019 |
| Silent Serial Sensations | Barbara Tepa Lupack | Cornell University Press | 2020 |
| Silver Screen Hasidic Jews | Shaina Hammerman | Indiana University Press | 2018 |
| Sofia Coppola | Anna Backman Rogers | Berghahn Books | 2019 |
| Some Kind of Mirror | Amanda Konkle | Rutgers University Press | 2019 |
| Sound, Image, Silence: Art and the Aural Imaginationin the Atlantic World | Michael Gaudio | University of Minnesota Press | 2019 |
| Southern History on Screen | Bryan M. Jack | University Press of Kentucky | 2019 |
| Specters of Slapstick & Silent Film Comediennes | Maggie Hennefeld | Columbia University Press | 2018 |
| Stan Brakhage in Rolling Stock, 1980-1990 | Jerry White | Wilfrid Laurier University Press | 2018 |
| Stanley Kubrick | Nathan Abrams | Rutgers University Press | 2018 |
| Star Wars After Lucas | Dan Golding | University of Minnesota Press | 2019 |
| Starring Red Wing! | Linda M. Waggoner | University of Nebraska Press | 2019 |
| Studying Horror Cinema | Bryan Turnock | Auteur Publishing | 2019 |
| Studying Ida | Sheila Skaff | Auteur Publishing | 2018 |
| Studying The Hurt Locker | Terence McSweeney | Auteur Publishing | 2019 |
| Technology and Film Scholarship Experience, Study, Theory | Santiago Hidalgo | Amsterdam University Press | 2018 |
| Telling Migrant Stories | Esteban E. Loustaunau and Lauren E. Shaw | University of Florida Press | 2018 |
| That Was Entertainment: The Golden Age of the MGM Musical | Bernard F. Dick | University Press of Mississippi | 2018 |
| The Apartment Complex | Pamela Robertson Wojcik | Duke University Press | 2018 |
| The Arts of Cinema | Martin Seel | Cornell University Press | 2018 |
| The Berlin School And Its Global Contexts | Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher | Wayne State University Press | 2018 |
| The Bible Onscreen in the New Millenium | Wickham Clayton | Manchester University Press | 2020 |
| The Birth of a Nation | Michael T. Martin | Indiana University Press | 2019 |
| The Cinema of John Milius | Alfio Leotta | Lexington Books | 2019 |
| The Cinema of Louis Malle | Philippe Met | Wallflower Press | 2018 |
| The Coen Brothers And The Comedy Of Democracy | MacDonald and Craig | Lexington Books | 2019 |
| The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader 2005-2016 | Rimgaila Salys | Academic Studies Press | 2019 |
| The Damned | Nick Riddle | Auteur Publishing | 2019 |
| The Devils | Darren Arnold | Auteur Publishing | 2019 |
| The Dynamic Frame | Patrick Keating | Columbia University Press | 2019 |
| The Eloquent Screen | Gilberto Perez | University of Minnesota Press | 2019 |
| The Empathic Screen | Vittorio Gallese and Michele Guerra | Oxford University Press | 2020 |
| The Films of Bill Morrison | Bernd Herzogenrath | Amsterdam University Press | 2018 |
| The Films of Clint Eastwood | Matt Wanat and Leonard Engel | University of New Mexico Press | 2018 |
| The Films of Jess Franco | Antonio Lázaro-Reboll and Ian Olney | Wayne State University Press | 2018 |
| The Fly | Emma Westwood | Auteur Publishing | 2018 |
| The Handmaid’s Tale | Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Janis L. Goldie | Lexington Books | 2019 |
| The Hell of War Comes Home | Owen W. Gilman Jr. | University Press of Mississippi | 2018 |
| The Hollywood Renaissance | Peter Kramer and Yannis Tzioumakis | Bloomsbury Publishing | 2018 |
| The Holocaust In Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Films | Sarka Sladovnikova | Ibidem Press | 2018 |
| The Limits of Auteurism | Nicholas Godfrey | Rutgers University Press | 2018 |
| The Lost World of DeMille | John Kobal | The University Press of Mississippi | 2019 |
| The Optical Vacuum | Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece | Oxford University Press | 2018 |
| The Proximity of Other Skins | Celine Parrenas Shimizu | Oxford University Press | 2020 |
| The Semiotics of Light and Shadows | Piotr Sadowski | Bloomsbury Publishing | 2018 |
| The Sound of Things To Come | Trace Reddell | University of Minnesota Press | 2018 |
| The Supervillain Reader | Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert G. Weiner | University Press of Mississippi | 2020 |
| The Twilight Zone | Barry Keith Grant | Wayne State University Press | 2020 |
| The United States Constitution in Film | Eric T. Kasper and Quentin D. Vieregge | Lexington Books | 2018 |
| The Voice of Technology | Lilya Kaganovsky | Indiana University Press | 2018 |
| Transcendental Style in Film | Paul Schrader | University of California Press | 2018 |
| Transforming Harry | John Alberti, P.Andrew Miller | Wayne State University Press | 2018 |
| Transgender Cinema | Rebecca Bell-Metereau | Rutgers University Press | 2019 |
| Traumatic Imprints | Noah Tsika | University of California Press | 2018 |
| Treme | Jaimey Fisher | Wayne State University Press | 2019 |
| Tropical Dream Palaces | Odile Goerg | Oxford University Press | 2020 |
| Tropical Travels | Lisa Shaw | University of Texas Press | 2018 |
| Twin Peaks | Julie Grossman and Will Scheibel | Wayne State University Press | 2020 |
| Understanding Kubrick’s 2001 a space odyssey | James Fenwick | Intellect | 2018 |
| University Babylon | Curtis Marez | University of California Press | 2020 |
| Werner Schroeter | Roy Grundmann | Film Museum Synema Publication | 2018 |
| When the Movies Mattered | Jonathan Kirshner & Jon Lewis | Cornell University Press | 2019 |
| Where Truth Lies | Kris Fallon | University of California Press | 2019 |
| White Masculinity in Crisis in Hollywood’s Fin De Millenium Cinema | Pete Deakin | Lexington Books | 2019 |
| Women in the Irish Film Industry | Susan Liddy | Cork University Press | 2020 |
| Working in Hollywood | Ronny Regev | University of North Carolina Press | 2018 |
| Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé | James Leo Cahill | University of Minnesota Press | 2019 |