Viewfinder Reviews

• Live Cinema and its Techniques

  Review type: Text | Posted on: 9 January 2018

  John Wyver of Illuminations reviews Francis Ford Coppola’s reflections on live cinema.

• Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers

  Review type: Text | Posted on: 21 November 2017

  Prof Alan O’Leary at the University of Leeds reviews Sohail Daulatzai’s book on the The Battle of Algiers (1966).

• Trying to Get Over

  Review type: Text | Posted on: 3 October 2017

  Adrian Smith, University of Sussex, reviews Keith Corson’s book on an overlooked period of black filmmaking.

• Visions of Avant-Garde Film

  Review type: Text | Posted on: 6 September 2017

  Donatella Valente, doctoral candidate at Birkbeck, reviews Kamila Kuc’s study of Polish avant-garde film.

• Jonathan Miller – One Thing and Another

  Review type: Text | Posted on: 14 July 2017

  Prof John Cook looks at a new collection of writing by the influential author, writer and director.

• Spanish Gothic

  Review type: Text | Posted on: 22 June 2017

  Dr Leon Hunt reviews Xavier Reyes’ detailed study of the Spanish Gothic in literature and on film.

• Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century

  Review type: Text | Posted on: 7 June 2017

  Dr Lorna Jowett reviews Stacey Abbott’s new book about the undead in twenty-first century film and television.

• The New Scottish Cinema

  Review type: Text | Posted on: 14 March 2017

  Dr Simon Brown reviews Jonathan Murray’s study of new Scottish cinema.

• Slums on Screen

  Review type: Text | Posted on: 17 February 2017

  Tamara Courage reviews Igor Krstić’s exploration of slums and their representation in world cinema.

• Mexican Cinema

  Review type: Text | Posted on: 3 January 2017

  Prof Stephen M. Hart reviews Charles Ramírez Berg’s analysis of classical Mexican cinema.