Book Reviews
Film & History strives to publish timely, insightful reviews of scholarly books on film and history, broadly conceived. If a book on the list below catches your scholarly interest, please consider reviewing it for us.
Reviews should be between 500 and 1500 words, and offer a critical assessment of the 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.
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Books Available for Review in Film & History (15 May 2013)
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A History of Documentary Film, Betsy A. McLane
A History of Swedish Experimental Film Culture, Andersson, Sundholm, Widding
A Social History of Iranian Cinema [3 vol.], Hamid Naficy
A Society in Distress, Jan Culik
African Video Movies and Global Desires, Carmela Garritano
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Deleyto and Azcona
American Jewish Story Through Cinema, Eric A. Goldman
American Showman, Ross Melnick
Becoming Jack Nicholson, Shaun R. Karli
Brutal Vision, Karl Schoonover
Camera Historica, Antoine De Baecque
CBS's Don Hollenbeck, Loren Ghiglione
Celluloid Activist, The Life and Times of Vito Russo, Michael Schiavi
Chaplin, Stephen Weissman, M.D.
Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films 1930-1960, Laurence Raw
Charles Burnett Interviews, Robert E. Kapsis
Chinese Women's Cinema, Lingzhen Wang
Choreographing the Global in European Cineman and Theater, Katrin Sieg
Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria, Mueller & Skidmore
Cinema of John Boorman, Brian Hoyle
Cinema's Alchemist, Nichols and Renov
Col. William N. Selig, the Man Who Invented Hollywood, Andrew A. Erish
Conjugations, Sangita Gopal
Consuming Visions, Maite Conde
Conversations with Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hamid Dabashi
Counter-Archive, Paula Amad
Creaturely Poetics, Anat Pick
Culture of Class, Matthew B. Karush
Dario Argento, L. Andrew Cooper
Detour, Noah Isenberg
Directors Close Up 2, Jeremy Kagan
Drive, Iain Borden
Early Cinema Today: The Art of Programming & Live Performance, Martin Loiperdinger
Ex-Cinema, Akira Mizuta Lippit
Ferocious Reality, Eric Ames
Figuring the Past, Belén Vidal
Film in the Middle East and North America, Josef Gugler
Film, Mobility and Urban Space, Les Roberts
First Films of the Holocaust, Jeremy Hicks
Frances Farmer, Peter Shelley
From Light to Byte, Markos Hadjioannou
From Rajahs and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond, Vijaya Mulay
Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture, Maria Stehle
Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia, Jonathan Rosenbaum
Gothic Machine, David J. Jones
Heritage Film Audiences, Claire Monk
Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema, Tan Ye & Yun Zhu
Historical Dictionary of Crime Films, Geoff Mayer
Hollywood 1938, Catherine Jurca
Hollywood's Africa After 1994, Maryellen Higgins
Hollywood's Chosen People, Bernardi, Pomerance & Tirosh-Samuelson
Hollywood's Last Golden Age, Jonathan Kirshner
Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada, Hafsteinsson & Bredin
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History, Walter Mirisch
Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
Kitano Takeshi, Aaron Gerow
Land of Smoke and Mirrors, Vincent Brook
Landscape Allegory in Cinema, David Melbye
Late Goddard and the Possibilities of Cinema, Daniel Morgan
Leslie Howard The Lost Actor, Estel Eforgan
Liberty Street, Peter Josyph
Life on Mars, Lacey and McElroy
Literary Lost, Sarah Clarke Stuart
Loretta Young, Bernard F. Dick
Lost Objects of Desire, Mark Nicholls
Love and Monsters, Miles Booy
Making a Promised Land, Paula J. Massood
Making Settler Cinemas, Peter Limbrick
Mediated Ethnicity, Muscio et. al.
Merchant-Ivory Interviews, Laurence Raw
Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue, Murray Pomerance
Millennial Masculinity, Timothy Shary
Muybridge The Eye in Motion, Stephen Barber
New Essays on Clint Eastwood, Leonard Engel
New Zealand Film & Television, Dunleavy & Joyce
Nollywood, Pierre Barrot
Not Hollywood, Sherry B. Ortner
One World, Big Screen, M. Todd Bennett
Parallel Plot, Matt Saunders
Paul on Mazursky, Sam Wasson
Place, Memory and Myth in Contemporary Israeli Cinema, Anat Y. Zanger
Precocious Charms, Gaylyn Studlar
Pretty, Rosalind Galt
Quit India, Dror Izhar
Raoul Walsh, Marilyn Ann Moss
Reaching Audiences, Knight and Thomas
Reading the Cinematograph, Andrew Shail
Remaking Chinese Cinema, Yiman Wang
Robert Bresson (revised), James Quandt
Robert Rodriguez Interviews, Zachary Ingle
Rule of Thumb Ebert at the Movies, Todd Rendleman
Scandinavian Cinema, Sundholm et. al.
Screen Jesus, Peter Malone
Screening Irish-America, Ruth Barton
Shadow of a Mouse, Donald Crafton
Soured on the System, Robert T. Schultz
Spectacles of Blood, Swaralipi Nandi & Esha Chatterjee
Stardom Italian Style, Marcia Landy
Stardust Monuments, Alison Trope
Steaming into a Victorian Future, Julie Anne Taddeo and Cynthia J. Miller
Stellar Encounters, Tytti Soila
Syd Chaplin, Lisa K. Stein
Taking Place, Rhodes and Gorfinkel
Taking The Long View, Richard Kilborn
Tashlinesque, Ethan de Seife
Teaching Film, Lucy Fischer and Patrice Petro
The Apu Trilogy, Andrew Robinson
The Aesthetics of Shadow, Daisuke Miyao
The Beauty of the Real, Mick LaSalle
The Cinema and It's Shadow, Alice Maurice
The Covert Sphere, Timothy Melley
The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott, Barkman, Barkman & Kang
The Donna Reed Show, Joanne Morreale
The Eyes Have It, Murray Pomerance
The French Road Movie, Neil Archer
The IRA on Film and Television, Mark Connelly
The King's Jester, Barry Anthony
The Last Laugh, Murray Pomerance
The Law of the Looking Glass, Sheila Skaff
The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema, Lawrence Baron
The Nicest Kids in Town, Mathew F. Delmont
The Oliver Stone Encyclopedia, James M. Welsh and Donald M. Whaley
The Poetics of Slumberland, Scott Bukatman
The Sopranos, Gary R. Edgerton
The Time of Our Lives, Yannis Tzioumakis and Sian Lincoln
The Utopia of Film, Christopher Pavsek
The West Wing, Janet McCabe
The Wire, Sherryl Vint
The World History of Animation, Stephen Cavalier
Tough as Nails, The Life and Films of Richard Brooks, Douglass K. Daniel
Transition Cinema, Jessica Stites Mor
Twentieth Century Fox, Peter Lev
Uneven Modernity, Haomin Gong
War, Politics and Superheroes, Marc DiPaolo
White Gypsies, Eva Woods Peiró
Widescreen Worldwide, Belton, Hall and Neale
World Cinema and the Visual Arts, David Gallagher
World Film Locations Mumbai, Helio San Miguel
