Book Review: Alfred Hitchcock’s America
Ciara O’Brien on Murray Pomerance’s book that focuses on the cultural critique inherent to Hitchcock’s work, while aso managing to provide great insight into the man himself.
Category: Book Reviews
Book Review: The Filmmaker’s Handbook – A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age
Stephen McNeice takes a look at ‘The Filmmaker’s Handbook – A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age’
Book Review: Watching the World: Screen Documentary and Audiences
Nicola Marzano checks out one of the most up-to-date works on the documentary rise both among cinema goers and TV audiences.
Book Review: World Film Locations: Dublin
Providing an insight into how Dublin has both shaped and been shaped by filmmakers, World Film Locations:Dublin is an engaging journey through Dublin and its representation on screen.
Book Review: The Naked Brando: An Intimate Friendship
Nicola Marzano reviews George Englund’s captivating, crafty and insightful account of the life of a screen legend.
Book Review: Censoring Hollywood: Sex and Violence in Film and on the Cutting Room Floor
Martin Cusack reviews Aubrey Malone’s daringly ambitious and panoramic overview of the history of film censorship.
Book Review: Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin
Ciara O’Brien recommends Pierre Assouline’s stunning biography ‘Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin’ – a must for all comic fans.
Book Review: Maurice Pialat (French Film Directors)
Nicola Marzano finds a lot to admire in Marja Warehime’s accomplished study of the life and career of the anti-conformist director.
Book Review: Anthony Asquith (British Film Makers)
Tom Ryall’s indispensable study of Anthony Asquith’s career, which seemed to run in a sort of strange, reverse parallel with the development of film form itself.
Book Review: Ken Loach: The Politics of Film and Television
John Hill explores the crossing of the boundaries between Loach, the television director, and Loach, the film director.
Book Review: Humphrey Jennings (British Film Makers)
Keith Beattie examines the work of one of the great innovators of documentary.
A Divided World: Hollywood Cinema and Emigré Directors in the Era of Roosevelt and Hitler 1933-1948
Examines some of the important programs of the Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s and the subsequent response of the Hollywood film community with a focus on three European directors in particular – Billy Wilder, Ernst Lubitsch, and Fritz Lang, whose works are compared and contrasted with the products of mainstream Hollywood.
New Irish Storytellers: Narrative Strategies in Film
Díóg O’Connell’s exemplery study positions Irish film as an integral part of our storytelling traditions and an inescapable part of our culture.
French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics in Film
Susan Hayward throws light on an overlooked genre of French cinema and its significance in terms of political cultural history.
The Reality of Film: Theories of Filmic Reality
Rushton’s lively work argues that film is not merely a representational art, passively holding a mirror to our reality, but is, in fact, a reality in and of itself.
Basics Film-Making: The Language of Film
A useful introductory guide to how film constructs meaning.
