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,
“... the vocalist makes his entry. It’s Tony Bennett singing ‘From Rags to Riches’. The film is Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990). All kinds of things are going on here, artful, intelligent, violent and ironic. The broadest effect is that of the song, with its implication of a sarcasm as old as gangster movies themselves. Organised crime is a ... ”