Book Reviews

‘The Complete History of American Film Criticism’ is an encyclopedic effort to chronicle the rise and flowering of film criticism in the 20th century

‘Being Hal Ashby’ examines the director’s tormented personal life and childhood, and traces the troubled personal skein into an exemplary body of work in motion pictures

Viera’s fine history provides an insightful look into this legendary producer.

The central issue in ‘The Lean Forward Moment’ is emotional engagement in the narrative.

Bernard Mendiburu’s book contains the requisite technical information about stereoscopic perception and its relation to cinema.

The films of Stanley Kubrick, rich in their aesthetic complexity, have generated a considerable bibliography.

‘The Invisible Cut: How Editors Make Movie Magic’ will stand as a deft introduction to the “invisible art” of editing and would prove highly useful as a textbook.

John Thornton Caldwell, a Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA, has published an up-to-date field study of contemporary production.

‘Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive’ by Valerie Orpen is a highly theoretical examination of editing as an essential but greatly misunderstood aspect of motion picture production.

Da Capo has given us ‘The B List’ with film critics’ picks and observations about “low-budget beauties, genre-bending mavericks and cult classics.”