Viewfinder Reviews

• Projecting Tomorrow

  Review type: Text | Posted on: 17 May, 2013

  Mark Bould reviews a new history of the Science Fiction genre.

• Fear and Desire

  Review type: Video | Posted on: 8 May, 2013

  Stanley Kubrick’s debut film, long unavailable, is now on disc.

• Drive

  Review type: Text | Posted on: 8 May, 2013

  We take a new book on road movies out for a spin.

• Zaprudered

  Review type: Text | Posted on: 26 April, 2013

  Professor John Beck on the cultural import of the Zapruder film.

• Fatherland

  Review type: Video | Posted on: 5 April, 2013

  Laura Mayne looks at a re-release of Ken Loach’s 1986 film.

• Meshes of the Afternoon

  Review type: Text | Posted on: 2 April, 2013

  We review a monograph on Maya Deren’s avant-garde classic.

• Annie Leibovitz – Life Through a Lens

  Review type: Video | Posted on: 2 April, 2013

  We consider an airbrushed profile of photographer Annie Leibovitz.

• Filming the Middle Ages

  Review type: Text | Posted on: 13 March, 2013

  Dr Lesley Coote reviews a study of medieval films.

• Vampyr

  Review type: Video | Posted on: 7 March, 2013

  Dr Stacey Abbott reviews the classic by Carl Theodor Dreyer.

• Sonic Persuasion

  Review type: Text | Posted on: 22 February, 2013

  Sam Coley reviews a history of radio looking at how sound can be ‘read’