Books, 9/6.

Kristin Thompson offers an index of sorts to her and David Bordwell's blog by lining up links suggesting "some possibilities for using specific blog entries to cast light on topics in our text," Film Art: An Introduction.

At SF360, Max Goldberg reviews Jonathan Rosenbaum's Discovering Orson Welles: "Welles is the type of artist whose life and work can seem to get more and more opaque the deeper one submerges into his oeuvre..., but Rosenbaum leaves no doubt that the difficulties and frustrations are worth it - not just for what this research tells us about Welles, but also, more generally, for what it reveals about the 'incompatibility of art and commerce,' the way market forces can distort a career, and perhaps more damningly, a legacy."

"I thought I was becoming a little bored with Spartacus until I read this book." Theresa Urbainczyk in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review on Spartacus: Film and History. Via Bookforum.

PopMatters runs extracts from Hitchcock and Philosophy: Dial M for Metaphysics.

Posted by dwhudson at September 6, 2007 9:30 AM