Screening the Past 16.

Although the new issue of Screening the Past features the sort of longish essays you'd expect to find in such a journal, albeit here not so much academic in language and tone as in concern - Philip Butterss, for example, contributes "A 'careful little housewife': C. J. Dennis and masculinity in The sentimental blokes" - two pieces by Sam Rohdie stand out for their meandering pace and richness of allusion. "Citations" and "Film and landscape" weave informed references to Griffith and Godard, Homer and Hawks through a personal and quiet series of reflections that are all the more welcome as Cannes and the summer movie season kick up an incessant (yet necessary) whirlwind of buzz.

For cinephiles who also happen to love reading books, the real motherlode here is the collection of nearly 40 reviews on the most disparate of film-related titles, reviews written by names you've seen pop up in other journals such as Senses of Cinema and maybe even on your own bookshelf.

Posted by dwhudson at May 16, 2004 10:24 AM