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Reviews

Special Tenth Anniversary Book Review: Jan-Christopher Horak reviews The Story of the Kelly Gang DVD, and Ina Bertrand and William D. Routt, “The Picture That Will Live Forever”: The Story of the Kelly Gang.

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Neil Bather reviews Steve Macek, Urban Nightmares: The Media, the Right, and the Moral Panic over the City.

John Benson reviews Graeme Turner, Ending the Affair: the decline of television current affairs in Australia.

Ina Bertrand reviews Daniel J. Leab, Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm.

Susan Bye reviews Elana Levine, Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television.

John Conomos reviews Rachel Moore, Hollis Frampton (nostalgia).

John Conomos reviews McKenzie Wark, Gamer Theory.

Anna Dzenis reviews Nicole Brenez, Abel Ferrara.

David Ehrenstein reviews James Morrison (ed.), The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All That Heaven Allows.

Tony Fonseca reviews Robert Spadoni, Uncanny Bodies: The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre.

Freda Freiberg reviews Christine L. Marran, Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture.

Jan-Christopher Horak reviews Dana Polan, Scenes of Instruction. The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film.

Irene Javors reviews Steven Bach, Leni, The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl, and Gerd Gemunden and Mary R. Desjardins (eds.), Dietrich Icon.

D.B. Jones reviews Melanie J. Wright, Religion and Film: an Introduction.

Hester Joyce reviews Gail Jones, The Piano.

Mike Lim reviews Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy.

Martin Manning reviews Marie-Laure Ryan, Avatars of Story.

Harriet Margolis reviews Ehrhard Bahr, Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism.

Ben McCann reviews James Chapman, Mark Glancy & Sue Harper (eds.), The New Film History: Sources, Methods, Approaches.

Brian McFarlane reviews Gene D. Phillips, Beyond the Epic: The Life & Films of David Lean.

Brian McFarlane reviews Laraine Porter and Bryony Dixon (eds.), Picture Perfect: Landscape, Place and Travel in British Cinema before 1930.

Angela Ndalianis reviews Alan Cholodenko (ed.), The Illusion of Life 2: More Essays on Animation.

Jaime S. Ong reviews Scott Nygren, Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History.

Michael Paris reviews Jo Fox, Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II Cinema.

Arthur Pomeroy reviews Gideon Nisbet, Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture.

Thomas Redwood reviews Jonathan Rosenbaum, Discovering Orson Welles.

Rick Thompson reviews Michael Barrier, The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney, and Tom Sito, Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson.

Errol Vieth reviews Peter Decherney, Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American.

Terrie Waddell reviews Petra Kupper, The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art.

Saige Walton reviews Anne Friedberg, The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft.

Nicholas Witham reviews J. E. Smyth, Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane.