Books for Review Autumn 2021

IAMHIST received copies of the following books and is looking for reviewers (Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television). If you are interested, please send a message (mentioning the full title of the book and your postal address) to Ciara Chambers (ciarachambers3@gmail.com).  It would help if you could tell us a bit about your own research and expertise and/or why you are interested in reviewing this title. Please also note that some books may still be available from previous lists.

Alexander, Lisa Doris. Homicide: Life on the Street. Wayne State University Press, 2021. Already assigned for review.
Bannister, Matthew. Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi. Wayne State University Press, 2021.
Berton, Mireille. Le Médium (au) cinéma. Georg Editeur, 2021.
Chapman, Llewella. Fashioning James Bond: Costume, Gender and Identity in the World of 007. Bloomsbury, 2021. Already assigned for review.
Fritzsche, Sonja, ed. The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film. Liverpool University Press, 2021.
Galt, Rosalind. Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization. Columbia University Press, 2021. Already assigned for review.
Gates, Philippa. Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited. Wayne State University Press, 2021. Already assigned for review.
Grosvenor, Chris. Cinema on the Front Line: British Soldiers and Cinema in the First World War. University of Exeter Press, 2021. Already assigned for review.
Hutchings, Peter. Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film. Edited by Johnny Walker. Manchester University Press, 2021. Already assigned for review.
J.P., Telotte, and Gerald Duchovnay, eds. Science Fiction Double Feature: The Science Fiction Film as Cult Text. Liverpool University Press, 2021.
Keller, Sarah. Barbara Hammer: Pushing out of the Frame. Wayne State University Press, 2021.
Konkle, Amanda. Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Nuanced Postnetwork Television. Syracuse University Press, 2020.
Koszarski, Richard. Keep ’Em in the East: Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance. Columbia University Press, 2021. Already assigned for review.
Macdonald, Scott, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, eds. William Greaves – Filmmaking As Mission. Columbia University Press, 2021.
Mizejewski, Linda and Tanya D. Zuk, eds. Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia. Wayne State University Press, 2021. Already assigned for review.
Niemeyer, Katharina, ed. Nostalgies Du Present. Revues d’études cinematographiques, 2021.
Odino, Simone, and Filippo Ulivieri. 2001 Between Kubrick and Clarke. Amazon, 2019.
Polan, Dana. Dreams of Flight: The Great Escape in American Film and Culture. University of California Press, 2021. Already assigned for review.
Sandberg, Claudia. Peter Lilienthal: A Cinema of Exile and Resistance. Berghahn Books, 2021.
Sharrett, Christopher. Breaking Bad. Wayne State University Press, 2021.
Vich, Cynthia, and Sarah Barrow, eds. Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Zhou, Chenshu. Cinema off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China. University of California Press, 2021. Already assigned for review.

 

Books for Review Summer 2021

IAMHIST received copies of the following books and is looking for reviewers (Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television). If you are interested, please send a message (mentioning the full title of the book and your postal address) to Ciara Chambers (ciarachambers3@gmail.com).  It would help if you could tell us a bit about your own research and expertise and/or why you are interested in reviewing this title. Please also note that some books may still be available from previous lists.

Aiello, Thomas. The Life and Times of Louis Lomax. Duke University Press, 2021.Already assigned for review.
Baptiste, Bala James. Race and Radio: Pioneering Black Broadcasting in New Orleans. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. Already assigned for review.
Baron, Jaimie. Reuse, Misuse, Abuse: The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era. Rutgers University Press, 2020. Already assigned for review.

Downs, James. Anton Walbrook: A Life of Masks and Mirrors. Peter Lang, 2020.  Already assigned for review.

Filippo, Maria San, editor. After Happily Ever After: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age. Wayne State University Press, 2021. Already assigned for review.
Gonzalez, Vernadette Vicuña. Empire’s Mistress Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper. Duke University Press, 2021. Already assigned for review.
Hegnsvad, Kristoffer. Werner Herzog: Ecstatic Truth and Other Useless Conquests. Reaktion Books, 2021. Already assigned for review.
Jönsson, Mats, et al., editors. Thresholds: Interwar Lens Cultures 1919-1939. Verlaine Der Buchandlung Walther König, 2021.
Negra, Diane. Shadow of a Doubt. Liverpool University Press, 2021. Already assigned for review.
Ray, Sandeep. Celluloid Colony: Locating History and Etgnography in Early Dutch Colonial Films of Indonesia. National University of Singapore Press, 2021. Already assigned for review.
Rea, Christopher G. Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949. Columbia University Press, 2021.    Already assigned for review. 
Redrobe, Karen. Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures. University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
Spano, Carmen. Emerging Dynamics in Audiences’ Consumption of Trans-Media Products. Anthem Press, 2020.
Torlasco, Domietta. The Rhythm of Images: Cinema beyond Measure. University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
Tremlett, Sarah. The Poetics of Poetry Film. Intellect, 2020.
Ward, Elizabeth. East German Film and the Holocaust. Berghahn Books, 2020.
Williams, Christy. Mapping Fairy-Tale Space. Wayne State University Press, 2021. Already assigned for review.

Books for Review Spring 2021

IAMHIST received copies of the following books and is looking for reviewers (Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television). If you are interested, please send a message (mentioning the full title of the book and your postal address) to Ciara Chambers (ciarachambers3@gmail.com).  It would help if you could tell us a bit about your own research and expertise and/or why you are interested in reviewing this title. Please also note that some books may still be available from previous lists.
A., Miller, D. Second Time Around – from Art House to DVD. Columbia University Press, 2021.
Barnett, Kyle. Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry. University of Michigan Press, 2020. Already assigned for review. 
Cherchai Usai, Paolo, David Francis, Alexander Horwath and Michael Loebenstein. Film Curatorship – Archives, Museums, and the Digital Marketplace. Austrian Film Museum, 2020.  Already assigned for review. 
Forster, Ralf. Heimkino Auf Ozaphan. CineGraph, 2021.  Already assigned for review. 
Freedman, Carl. American Presidents and Oliver Stone. Intellect (UK), 2020. Already assigned for review. 
Griffen-Foley, Bridget. Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers. Palgrave Pivot, 2020.Already assigned for review. 
Johnston, Andrew R. Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation. Minnesota University Press, 2020. Already assigned for review. 
Kelly, Gillian. Tyrone Power: Gender and Image in Classical Hollywood Cinema. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. Already assigned for review. 
Macnab, Geoffrey. The British Film Industry in 25 Careers. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Already assigned for review. 
Maltby, Richard. Decoding the Movies: Hollywood in the 1930s. University of Exeter Press, 2020. Already assigned for review. 
McElhaney, Joe. Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema. Wayne State University Press, 2021.
Mcnally, Karen. The Stardom Film – Creating the Hollywood Fairy Tale. Wallflower Press, 2020. Already assigned for review. 
Moraly, Yehuda. Revolution in Paradise. Sussex Academic Press, 2019. Already assigned for review. 
Prorokova-Konrad, Tatiana, ed. Cold War II: Hollywood’s Renewed Obsession with Russia. University Press of Mississippi, 2020 Already assigned for review. 
Redmond, Sean. Starring Tom Cruise. Wayne State University Press, 2021.  Already assigned for review. 
Sanders, Joe Sutliff. Batman: The Animated Series. Wayne State University Press, 2021. Already assigned for review. 
Tibbetts, John C. Peter Weir: Interviews. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. Already assigned for review. 
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