Thanks to some rifling around at the great UPenn.edu search tool The Online Books Page, the always bountiful Film Studies For Free can now proudly present you with some wonderful new links to the following, online and freely accessible, Film Studies E-books (most of these ‘scholarship editions’ were made available online by the mighty University of California Press – thank you UC!):
- Andrew Horton and Stuart Y. McDougal (eds), Play It Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes
- Barton Byg, Landscapes of Resistance: The German Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
- Charles Musser, Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company
- John M. Frame, Theology at the Movies
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Moving Places: A Life at the Movies
- Thomas J. Saunders, Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany
- William C. Wees, Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film
These join Film Studies For Free‘s existing links to the following great books:
- David Bordwell, Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema
- Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema
- Jennifer E. Langdon, Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
- Robert Philip Kolker, The Altering Eye
Happy E-reading, folks!
[Addendum – at 16.43: An old friend from my early Kent days, Dr David Sorfa [now Managing Editor of the peerless (…but peer-reviewed!) Open-Access journal Film-Philosophy, and Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University], got in touch with two further and very welcome additions to the E-books list. Both these classics are offered up courtesy of the Centre for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan:
- Donald Richie, Japanese Cinema
- Nöel Burch, To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema
Díky moc / Arigatou gozaimasu / Thank you very much!]
CATHERINE GRANT 