Film Criticism back issues from December 2005:
Convergence and divergence in the movie review: Bonnie and Clyde.
Dec 22, 2005; ... ... when a text fails to respond to the rules applied to it, it is not always clear whether the text or the reader is at fault. --Peter Rabinowitz, Before Reading, 211 In general, divergence of readings is more interesting than convergence .... --Jonathan ...
Creativity and the "B" feature: Terence Fisher's crime films.(British director)
Dec 22, 2005; ... Very little attention has been given to the postwar British "B" or second feature, despite its importance through to the end of the double bill in 1964, although Brian McFarlane began to map out the territory in an earlier volume of this journal (McFarlane 1996). The aim of this article is ...
Foucauldian muscles: celebrating the male body in Thom Fitzgerald's Beefcake.
Dec 22, 2005; ... The male body, and the gay male body in particular, exposed in magazines, Internet websites, posters, postcards, dance clubs, and shows, is directly involved in a political field. Beyond its erotic, stimulating, and consumerist character, the physique image, as an art and business of ...
The Art and Politics of Bolivian Cinema.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2005; ... The Art and Politics of Bolivian Cinema By Jose Sanchez-H. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1999 265 pp.; $55.00 cloth It is an understatement to say that Bolivian films do not enjoy wide distribution. Given this fact, I suspect that even scholars of international ...
The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2005; ... The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries By Eva Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli Wallflower, 2004 208 pp., $70.00 cloth, $20.00 paper Nanni Moretti and his films are something of an enigma: difficult to categorize, and steeped in the complex traditions of contemporary ...
Dames in the Driver's Seat: Rereading Film Noir.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2005; ... Dames in the Driver's Seat: Rereading Film Noir By Jans B. Wager Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005 202 pp.; $21.95, paper; $50.00, cloth In her lively and persuasively argued new book, Jans B. Wager continues a project begun in her 1999 publication, Dangerous Dames: Women ...
Reinventing China: A Generation and Its Films.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2005; ... Reinventing China: A Generation and Its Films By Paul Clark Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2005 257 pp.: $20, paper; $39, cloth The 1984 release of Chen Kaige's film Yellow Earth announced the emergence of a major new movement in world cinema. That movement, China's ...