Karen Burroughs Hannsberry. Femme Noir: Bad Girls of Film. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1998. x + 633 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7864-0429-2.
Reviewed by Walter Metz (Montana State University) Published on H-Film (April, 1999)
Classical Hollywood
Linda Troost, Sayre Greenfield, eds. Jane Austen in Hollywood. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 240 pp. $27.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8131-2084-3.
Reviewed by Wendy J. Donat (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Film (April, 1999)
Opening Line
Kathryn Bernheimer. The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies: A Critic's Ranking of the Very Best. Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Publishing Group, 1998. xi + 212 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55972-457-9.
Reviewed by Solomon Davidoff (Bowling Green State University) Published on H-Film (April, 1999)
Eight Fingers
Jonathan Veitch. American Supperrealism: Nathaniel West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. 232 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-299-15704-3; $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-15700-5.
Reviewed by Joseph Dorinson (Long Island University) Published on H-Film (April, 1999)
Social Tendencies
David Puttnam. The Undeclared War: The Struggle for Control of the World's Film Industry. London: HarperCollins, 1997. xii + 413 pp. $18.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-00-255675-0.
Reviewed by Dina Lordanova (Leicester University) Published on H-Film (April, 1999)
Michael L. Stephens. Art Directors in Cinema: A Worldwide Biographical Dictionary. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1998. x + 350 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7864-0312-7.
Reviewed by James Everett (Mississippi College) Published on H-Film (April, 1999)
The Highest Tribute
Jan-Christopher Horak, ed. Lovers of Cinema: the First American Film Avant-garde, 1919-1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. 416 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-14680-1.
Reviewed by Michael S. Shull (The Washington Center) Published on H-Film (March, 1999)
Experimental Films
Don G. Smith. The Poe Cinema: A Critical Filmography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1998. vii + 307 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7864-0453-7.
Reviewed by Michael Strada (West Liberty State College and West Virginia University) Published on H-Film (March, 1999)
A Full Day's Work
Christian Braad Thomson. Fassbinder: The Life and Work of a Provocative Genius. London: Faber and Faber, 1997. 358 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-571-17842-1.
Reviewed by Peter Rollberg (The George Washington University) Published on H-Film (March, 1999)
Several Themes
Michael Ankerich. The Sound of Silence: Conversations with 16 Film and Stage Personalities Who Bridged the Gap Between Silents and Talkies. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1998. xii + 260 pp. $42.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7864-0504-6.
Reviewed by Robert C. Sickels (University of Nevada, Reno) Published on H-Film (March, 1999)
Living Resources
Joyce A. Evans. Celluloid Mushroom Clouds: Hollywood and the Atomic Bomb. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. xi + 212 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8133-2613-9.
Reviewed by Mick Broderick (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Film (March, 1999)
Robert Burgoyne. Film Nation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. ix + 137 pp. $22.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8166-2071-5; $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8166-2070-8.
Reviewed by Ron Briley (Sandia Preparatory School) Published on H-Film (March, 1999)
National Narrative
Cari Beauchamp. Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 475 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-21492-7; $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-684-80213-8.
Reviewed by Liza Black (University of Washington) Published on H-Film (March, 1999)
A Boa Constrictor
Nick Browne, ed. Refiguring American Film Genres. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 320 pp. $26.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-20731-8; $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-20730-1.
Reviewed by Pearl Stratyner (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Film (March, 1999)
Another Look
Larry Richards. African American Films Through 1959: A Comprehensive Illustrated Filmography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1998. 312 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7864-0307-3.
Reviewed by Harvey Young (Cornell University) Published on H-Film (March, 1999)
A Beacon of Light
