Category: Other Writing

• Will Straw and Catherine Russell discuss “My Winnipeg”

• “Kitsch Historiography: Barbara Stanwyck in the Jungle.” In Media Res (7 Aug. 2013).
• Isabel Maria, “La cámara como escritura” interviewed for artist’s documentary on Experimental film, October 2009
• “Double Obsession: Sex, Death, and Oshima,” Video Essay for Criterion Collection DVD release of Empire of Passion, April 2009
• “Mini-cinema: A Digital Diary for iPod,” in DVD box set of the Films and Videos of Midi Onodera, 2010.
• “When a Woman Ascends the Stairs: Diary of a Ginza Bar Hostess,” Essay included in Criterion Collection DVD release of When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (dir. Naruse Mikio, 1960), 2007.
• Liner notes for three disks by Naruse Mikio Meshi, Sound of the Mountain, Flowing. Masters of Cinema (U.K., 2006).

“Whose Violence Is It?” My response to Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers’s Violence’s Fabled Experiment (2018) is included in this book forum post, Book Forum.

• Review of Johnny Guitar Olive Films Blueray release, Cineaste Vol. XLII No. 2 (Winter 2017)
• Review of A Life of Barbara Stanwyck and Barbara Stanwyck. Cineaste 39.4 (Fall 2014): 71-73.
• Review of Frank Capra: The Early Collection DVD Box Set (web exclusive) Cineaste (Summer 2013). http://www.cineaste.com/articles/emfrank-capra-the-early-collectionem-web-exclusive
• Review of Barbara Stanwyck, Miracle Woman by Dan Callahan, Cineaste Vol. XXXVII No.3 2012 (Summer 2012), 61-62.
• Review of Senso, Criterion Collection DVD Cineaste Vol. XXXVI no. 3 (Summer 2011), 52-54.
• Review of Observational Cinema: Anthropology, Film, and the Exploration of Social Life by Anna Grimshaw and Amanda Ravetz, Cultural Anthropology 26:1 (Feb. 2011), 143-149.
• Review of The Human Condition, Criterion Collection DVD Cineaste Vol. XXXV no. 3 (Summer 2010): 53-55.
• Review of An Autumn Afternoon, Criterion Collection DVD Cineaste Vol. XXXIV no. 2 (Spring 2009): 83-84.
• Review of Silent Ozu, Criterion Collection DVDs, Cineaste Fall 2008 web exclusive  http://www.cineaste.com/articles/silent-ozu.htm
• Review of The Burmese Harp and Fires on the Plain Criterion Collection DVDs by Kon Ichikawa, Cineaste. Vol. XXXII No. 4 (Fall 2007): 63-64.
• Review of Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel, Jeffrey Ruoff Ed. International History Review June 2007.
• Review of Late Spring DVD Cineaste Vol. XXXII, No2, Spring 2007: 65-67.
• Review of Ugetsu DVD Cineaste Vol. XXXI, no. 3 (Summer 2006), 64-66.
• “A Ménage à trois Gone Wrong: Review of Sontag  Kael: Opposites Attract Me By Craig Seligman,”  Synoptique 7 Feb. 14, 2005. http://www.synoptique.ca/core/en/articles/sontagkael/
• Review of Story of Floating Weeds and Floating Weeds DVD Cineaste Vol. XXX No. 1 (Winter 2004): 56-58.
• Review of Tokyo Story DVD Cineaste Vol. XXIX no. 3 (Summer 2004): 50-51.
• Review of Metropolis DVD Cineaste Vol. XXIX no. 1 (Winter 2003): 70-71.
• Review of Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology by Jay Ruby.  American Ethnologist 28:3 (2001): 735-737.
• Review of Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto. Cineaste Vol. XXVI No.2 (Spring 2001): 53-54.
• Review of The Birds by Camille Paglia and The Wizard of Oz by Salmon Rushdie, as part of review of BFI Classics and Modern Classics Film Series, co-written with Bart Testa and Carole Zucker. Canadian Journal of Film Studies Vol. 7 no. 2 (Fall 1998): 78-87 (refereed journal).
• Review of Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction by Scott Bukatman, Canadian Journal of Film Studies 5:1 (Spring 1996) 79-82 (refereed journal).
• Review of Cinema, Censorship and the State: the Writings of Nagisa Oshima, 1956-1978 (MIT Press 1992), Cineaste XX:1: 57-58.
• Review of The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory, by D.N. Rodowick, Recherches Sémiotique / Semiotic Inquiry Vol 11 no.2-3 (1991) 253-257 (refereed journal).
• Review of Psychoanalysis and Cinema. E. Ann Kaplan Ed. Queen’s Quarterly 97:4 (Winter 1990): 660-662 (refereed journal).
• “Past Pleasures: New Histories of German and American Cinemas,” Review of: The American Film Musical by Rick Altman, American Film Melodrama by Robert Lang, Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany by Patrice Petro, and New German Film: A History by Thomas Elsaesser, Queen’s Quarterly (Spring 1990) 88-101 (refereed journal).
• “Will the Reel Avant-Garde Please Stand Up?” Review of the International Experimental Film Congress, Toronto, May-June 1989, Fuse XIII:1-2 (Fall 1989) 37-43.
• “On Experimental Film,” Cinema Canada April 1989.
• Review of Chris Gallagher’s Undivided Attention in Recent Work from the Canadian Avant-Garde, Catherine Jonasson and Jim Shedden eds., (Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1988) 23-24.
• Review of Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema, by David Desser, in Cineaste 16:4 (1988).
• “Yvonne Rainer Eats Her Cake,” Cinema Studies, Department Newsletter, New York University 2:3 (Fall 1986).