Book Reviews

The Western: High Noon or Last Sunset? By Michael Coyne

Westerns: Aspects of a Movie Genre Philip French (2005) Manchester: Carcanet Press, 240 pp., ISBN 1857547470 (pbk), 39.95

Horizons West: Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood Jim Kitses (2004) London: British Film Institute, 342 pp., ISBN 1844570509 (pbk), 28.95, ISBN 1844570193 (hbk), 80.00

Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and US History Stanley Corkin (2004) Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 273 pp., ISBN 1592132545 (pbk), 23.95, ISBN 1592132537 (hbk), 69.50

Rio Bravo (BFI Film Classics) Robin Wood (2003) London: British Film Institute, 96 pp., ISBN 0851709664 (pbk), 14.95

Unforgiven (BFI Modern Classics) Ed. Buscombe (2004) London: British Film Institute, 95 pp., ISBN 1844570339 (pbk), 14.95

The Searchers: Essays & Reflections on John Ford's Classic Western Arthur M. Eckstein & Peter Lehman (2004) Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 440 pp., ISBN 0814330568 (pbk), 29.

John Wayne: A Giant Shadow C. McGivern (2004) Bracknell: Sammon Publishing, 465 pp., ISBN 0954003160 (pbk), 19.99

New Punk Cinema, Nicholas Rombes (ed.) (2005) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 256 pp., ISBN 0748620354 (pbk), 25.00, ISBN 0748620346 (hbk), 75.00

Silent Film Sound, Rick Altman (2005) New York: Columbia University Press, 528 pp., ISBN 0231116624 (hbk), 50.00, 32.50

A Culture of Light: Cinema & Technology in 1920s Germany Frances Guerin (2005) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 314 pp., ISBN 0816642869 (pbk), 24.95, ISBN 0816642850 (hbk), 74.95

Film Genre: Hollywood & Beyond Barry Langford (2005) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 310 pp., ISBN 0748619038 (pbk), 16.99, ISBN 074861902X (hbk), 50.00

If Mark Sinker (2005) London: BFI (BFI Film Classics Series), 88 pp., ISBN 1844570401 (pbk), 14.95

Withnail & I Kevin Jackson (2004) London: BFI (BFI Modern Classics), 95 pp., ISBN 1844570355 (pbk), 14.95

Signs of Life: Medicine & Cinema Graeme Harper and Andrew Moor (2005) London: Wallflower Press, 224 pp., ISBN 1904764169 (pbk), 22.50

Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City Mark Bould (2005) London: Wallflower Press, 144 pp., ISBN 1904764509 (pbk), 20.00

Lee Miller: A Life Carolyn Burke (2005) New York: Knopf, 448 pp., ISBN 0375401474 (hbk), 35.00

The Electronic Emporium: Senses of Cinema

The British Consumer Co-operative Movement and Film, 1890s1960s Alan G. Burton (2005) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 272 pp., ISBN 0719064163 (hbk), 85.00

Transnational Cinema in a Global North: Nordic Cinema in Transition Andrew Nestingen & Trevor G. Elkington (eds) (2005) Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 379 pp., ISBN 0814332439 (pbk), 26.95