Cheerfully Chopping up the World
Michael Wood: Film theory, 2 July 1998
The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium
by Gilberto Perez.
Johns Hopkins, 466 pp., £25, April 1998,0 8018 5673 6 Show More
by Gilberto Perez.
Johns Hopkins, 466 pp., £25, April 1998,
On the History of Film Style
by David Bordwell.
Harvard, 322 pp., £39.95, February 1998,0 674 63428 4 Show More
by David Bordwell.
Harvard, 322 pp., £39.95, February 1998,
Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine
by D.N. Rodowick.
Duke, 260 pp., £46.95, October 1997,0 8223 1962 4 Show More
by D.N. Rodowick.
Duke, 260 pp., £46.95, October 1997,
The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema
by Jean Mitry, translated by Christopher King.
Athlone, 405 pp., £45, February 1998,0 485 30084 2 Show More
by Jean Mitry, translated by Christopher King.
Athlone, 405 pp., £45, February 1998,
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
by Peter Wollen.
BFI, 188 pp., £40, May 1998,0 85170 646 0 Show More
by Peter Wollen.
BFI, 188 pp., £40, May 1998,
“... Westerns and gangster films, to what he calls the ‘history lessons’ of Abbas Kiorastami and Jean-Marie Straub/Daniele Huillet, to Godard and to Antonioni. The chapters on Keaton and Renoir are stunning, full of perceptive remarks; the chapter on Godard is a persuasive rehabilitation; none of the chapters is without memorable insights. We learn that ... ”
