Current Issue Table of Contents


42.1 (Spring 2012)
The Critic's Choice: Book and Film Reviews

Book Reviews

8
Keith Reader, French Film Guide: La Règle du jeu
reviewed by Judith Holland Samecki
11

Nick Dawson (ed), Hal Ashby: Interviews
Karen McNally (ed), Billy Wilder, Movie Maker: Critical Essays on His Films
reviewed by Ron Briley
15
Karla Oeler, A Grammar of Murder: Violent Scenes and Film Form
reviewed by Inga Meier
17

Marnie Hughes-Warrington (ed), The History on Film Reader
reviewed by Cynthia Childs
19 Jonathan Conlin, Civilisation
reviewed by Kevin M. Flanagan
21 S. A. Thornton, The Japanese Period Film: A Critical Analysis
reviewed by Ronald Wilson
24 Yingjin Zhang, Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China
reviewed by Jane Parish Yang

26 Aaron Gerow, Visions of Japanese Masculinity
reviewed by Ronald P. Loftus
29 Ron Krabill, Starring Mandela and Cosby: Media and the End(s) of Apartheid
reviewed by Julie Lavelle
32 Neil Sinyard, Richard Lester
reviewed by David Lancaster
34 Amy Lawrence, The Passion of Montgomery Clift
reviewed by Michael DeAngelis
36 George Kouvaros, Famous Faces Not Yet Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America
reviewed by Steven Cohan
39 Ralph Donald and Karen MacDonald, Reel Men at War: Masculinity and the American War Film
reviewed by Robert Fyne
41 Anke Bernau and Bettina Bildauer (eds), Medieval Film
reviewed by Margaret Hostetler
44 M. Elise Marubbio, Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film
reviewed by Chris Stone
46 Jeanette Roan, Envisioning Asia: On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U. S. Orientalism
reviewed by Monica Rico
48 Anthony Burke-Smith, The Look of Catholics: Portryals in Popular Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War
reviewed by Erin Hill-Parks
50 Martin Winkler, The Fall of the Roman Empire: Film and History
reviewed by Jonathan Theodore
52 Thomas Schatz, The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
reviewed by Ron Briley
55 Louis Menashe, Moscow Believes in Tears: Russians and their Movies
reviewed by Denise J. Youngblood

 

Film Reviews

59
Divided Heaven (Der geteilte Himmel)
Stars (Sterne/Zvezdy)
reviewed by Scott Weiss
62

Surviving the Dust Bowl
reviewed by John Shelton Lawrence
64
Tales from the Script
reviewed by Laurence Raw
67

Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority
reviewed by Michael C. Reiff
69
 The Schumann Encounter
reviewed by John C. Tibbetts
72
 Mystery of the Megavolcano
Monster of the Milky Way
Mystery of the Megaflood
reviewed by A. Bowdoin Van Riper
76
 Farewell
reviewed by D. B. Jones
80
 Shooting Women
reviewed by Monika Raesch
82
 Belzec
reviewed by Donna Yarri
85
 Belfast Girls
reviewed by Ian Scott
87
 Gimme Shelter -- The Rolling Stones
reviewed by Tracy Santa
90
 Something to do with The Wall
reviewed by Glenn Marcus and John Cooper


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