Book Reviews

Robin Wood Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan And Beyond (Revised and Expanded Edition) New York: Columbia University Press 2003 Jonathan Romney Atom Egoyan (World Directors) London: British Film Institute, 2003. Steve Chibnall & Julian Petley (eds.) British Horror Cinema London: Routledge 2002 Stan Brakhage Essential Brakhage: Selected Writings on Film-making by Stan Brakhage (ed. by Bruce R. McPherson) Kingston, NY: McPherson & Co. 2001 Eric Cazdyn The Flash of Capital. Film and Geopolitics in Japan Duke University Press, 2002 Scott Simmon The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half-Century Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003 Ginette Vincendeu Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris London: BFI 2003 Robert B. Ray How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001 Val Holley Mike Connolly and the Manly Art of Hollywood Gossip Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company Annalee R. Ward Mouse Morality: The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003 Peter Lehman Roy Orbison: The Invention of an Alternative Rock Masculinity Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2003 Mark Kermode The Shawshank Redemption London: BFI 2003 Jan Lumholdt (ed.) Lars von Trier: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series) Jackson: University Press of Mississippi 2003 Sarah Street Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the U.S.A. (Rethinking British Cinema) New York: Continuum International Publishing Group 2002