Books – Catherine Russell

The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star

About the Book From The Lady Eve, to The Big Valley, Barbara Stanwyck played parts that showcased her multidimensional talents […]
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New Books Network podcast about Archiveology

[Listen to the podcast] In her book Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices (Duke University Press, 2018), Catherine Russell […]
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Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices

In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology—the reuse, recycling, appropriation, […]
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The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity

Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2008. One of the most prolific and respected directors of Japanese cinema, Naruse Mikio (1905–69) […]
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Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video

Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1999. Experimental film and ethnographic film have long been considered separate, autonomous practices on the […]
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Narrative Mortality: Death, Closure and New Wave Cinemas

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. What seems like closure might be something more, as Catherine Russell illustrates in this […]
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Classical Japanese Cinema

The book approaches Japanese cinema as an industry closely modelled on Hollywood. The classical period refers to the years in […]
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