Book Reviews

Book reviews are reviewed by the editorial board and by the section editor, Maria Irene Aparício. If you wish to review one of these books (list below), please email me: cinema.book.editor@gmail.com.

Next deadline for review submissions: 15th September 2025
Reviews must be sent in word format to cinema.book.editor@gmail.com

Review copies: Please contact Cinema Book Editor
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Books available for review:

A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick Edited by Elsa Colombani (London: Lexington Books, 2020, 284 pp).

Animated the Spirited. Journeys and Transformations Edited by Tze-yue G. Hu, Masao Yokota and Gyongyi Horvath (University Press of Mississippi, 2020).

On Women`s Films Across Worlds and Generations Edited by Ivone Margulies and Jeremi Szaniawski (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 397 pp.).

A Critical Companion to James Cameron Edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna (Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books, 2019, 220 pp.)

The Films of Lenny Abrahamson. A Filmmaking of Philosophy by Barry Monahan (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, 234 pp.)

Re-Viewing the Past. The Uses of History in the Cinema of Imperial Japan by Sean D. O`Reilly (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, 308 pp.)

Sensuous Cinema. The Body in Contemporary Maghrebi Film by Kaya Dvies Hayon (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, 181 pp.)

Lars von Trier`s Renewal of Film 1984-2014 by Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press | Oxbow Books Ltd, 2018, 363 pp.)

Dancing with the Nation. Courtesans in Bombay Cinema by Ruth Vanita (New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2018, 217 pp).

Seeing into Screens. Eye Tracking and the Moving Image Edited by Tessa Dwyer, Claire Perkins, Sean Redmond and Jodi Sita (New York: Bloomsbury, 2018, 275 pp.)

Mythopoetic Cinema: On the Ruins of European Identity by Kriss Ravetto-Biagiolli (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017, 314 pp.)

Nocturnal Fabulations. Ecology, Vitality and Opacity in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul by Érik Bordeleau, Toni Pape, Ronald Rose-Antoinette and Adam Szymanski (London: Open Humanitiies Press, 2017, 149 pp.)

Playable Bodies. Dance Games and Intimate Media by Kiri Miller (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, 237 pp.)

Speaking Pictures. Neuropsychoanalysis and authorship in Film and Literature by Alistair Fox (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016, 292 pp.)

Carceral Fantasies. Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America by Alison Griffiths (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016, 440 pp.)

The Grace of Destruction. A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinema by Elena del Río (New York and London: loomsbury Academic, 2016, 267 pp.)

Maghrebs in Motion. North African Cinema in Nine Movements by Suzanne Gauch (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, 234 pp.)

Bodies in Pain. Emotion and the Cinema of Darren Aronofsky by Tarja Laine (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015, 184 pp.)

The Moving Image and Assamese Culture. Joymoti, Jyotiprasad Agarwala, and Assamese Cinema by Bobbeeta Sharma (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014, 184 pp.).

Postcolonial Theory and Avatar by Gautam Basu Thakur (London: Bloomsbury, 2016, 195 pp.)

Outside the Lettered City. Cinema, Modernity, and the Public Sphere in Late Colonial India by Manishita Dass (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 229 pp.)

Skepticism Films: Knowing and Doubting the World in Contemporary Cinema by Philipp Schmerheim (New York: Bloomsbury, 2016, 335 pp)

Darren Aronofsky`s Films and the Fragiliy of Hope by Jadranka Skorin-Kapov (New York: Bloomsbury, 2016, 183 pp.)

Klein, Sartre and Imagination in the Films of Ingmar Bergman by Dan Williams (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 236 pp.)

Latin Hitchcock. How Almodóvar, Amenábar, De la Iglesia, Del Toro and Campanella became Notorious by Dona M. Kercher (London & New York:Wallflower Press / Columbia University Press, 2015, 384 pp.).

Afterlifes. Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Cinema by Steve Choe (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Cinepoetry. Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry by Christophe Wall-Romana (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013)

In nome della legge: la giustizia nel cinema italiano by Guido Vitiello (Org.) (Editore Rubbetino 2013)

Imagem, Corpo, Tecnologia. A função Háptica das Novas Imagens Tecnológicas by Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco (Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2013)

Manoel de Oliveira. Cinema, parola, politica by Francesco Saverio Nisio (Genova: Le Mani, 2010)

Les Titres de Film. Économie et évolution du titre de film français depuis 1969 by Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly (Michel Houdiard Éditeur, 2011).