Book Reviews -

Assessing the Media Landscape for Common Ground

December 11, 2017

“The Storytellers Dilemma: Overcoming the Challenges in the Media Age” is meant for everyone who works in the media industries, whether in content creation, post-production finance or distribution.

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History, Horses’ Hooves and Homicide

September 1, 2013

‘The Inventor and the Tycoon’ is an engrossing book that could have been made sleeker and more significant.

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Cinema Europa: Is American Editing Lost in Translation?

September 1, 2006

The diversity of techniques and point of view in Roger Crittenden’s new book on European film editing is fairly astonishing.

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Against Condemnation: New York and the Post-Censor Movie Culture

September 1, 2007

Raymond J. Haberski Jr.’s fascinating history of the film culture wars covers a series of controversies from the 1950s and ‘60s up to the early ‘70s.

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The Unheard Magic

January 1, 2008

Some essential words are offered about cutting room etiquette and potential traps for the dialogue editor.

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Kubrick Cubed

May 16, 2009

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

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Open to Criticism: Chronicling Cinema’s Most Exclusive Club

July 1, 2010

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

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Spectacle from Dross: Art-Making as a Political Act

September 1, 2011

The act of filmmaking, for Ken Jacobs, is an interrogation of both space and time.

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CineMemories: Flashing Back on Favorite Films

January 1, 2012

Richard Pepperman has written his most personal book yet and, once again, it is a work that only the most accomplished editor could produce.

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L’Arrivée du 3D

May 1, 2008

The book is a thorough, precise, comprehensive and deeply revealing analysis of its subject.

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