94 | Sight&Sound | September 2012
ADVERTISING FEATURETWIN PEAKS
By Julie Grossman and Will Scheibel,
Wayne State University Press, TV
Milestones Series, 122pp, paperback,
£18.50/$19.99, ISBN 9780814346228
Twin Peaks takes fans through the
world that Mark Frost and David
Lynch created, and examines its
impact on society, genre and the
television industry. Julie Grossman
and Will Scheibel explore the
influences of melodrama and film
noir and the significance of the idea
of ‘home’, as well as female trauma
and agency. The book argues that the
show has transcended conventional
binaries not only in film and television
but also in culture and gender, and
explores the ways in which the
series critiques multiple forms of
objectification in culture. Readers
interested in film, television, pop
culture and gender studies, as well as
fans and new audiences discovering
Twin Peaks, will embrace this book.
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In North America:
http://www.wsupress.wayne.eduTHE JAPANESE
CINEMA BOOK
Edited by Hideaki Fujiki and Alastair Phillips,
British Film Institute, 624pp, illustrated,
paperback, £32.99, ISBN 9781844576784
The Japanese Cinema Book is a new,
comprehensive survey of one of the
world’s most fascinating and widely
admired filmmaking regions. Ranging
from renowned directors such as
Akira Kurosawa to neglected popular
genres such as the film musical and
encompassing topics such as ecology,
spectatorship, home movies, colonial
history and relations with Hollywood
and Europe, the book presents a
set of new, and often surprising,
perspectives on Japanese film.
With its plural range of
interdisciplinary perspectives based
on the expertise of established
and emerging scholars and critics,
The Japanese Cinema Book provides
a groundbreaking picture of the
different ways in which Japanese
cinema may be understood as a local,
regional, national, transnational
and global phenomenon.
shop.bfi.org.ukTHE GHASTLY ONE
The 42nd Street Netherworld
of Director Andy Milligan
By Jimmy McDonough, FAB Press,
332pp, hardcover, illustrated,
£75, ISBN 9781903254998
Nicolas Winding Refn presents
the compelling biography of Andy
Milligan. An actor and director,
Milligan cranked out exploitation
movies on threadbare budgets. Due
to their many limitations, his films
made him a laughing stock. Author
Jimmy McDonough changed all that
by providing context and pathos,
allowing Milligan’s chaotic yet highly
personal body of work to be seen in a
new and sympathetic light. The Ghastly
One studies the history of New York’s
shadowy sexploitation business and
the café culture that nurtured Off-Off
Broadway theatre. Starring a cast of
unforgettable, elusive characters,
the gripping narrative is told with
unflinching honesty. Finally getting the
presentation it deserves in this lavish
production full of previously unseen
images and memorabilia, The Ghastly
One is by turns hilarious, unsettling
and ultimately heartbreaking.
http://www.fabpress.comTHE ARCHITECTURE
OF CINEMATIC SPACE
By Interiors
By Mehruss Jon Ahi and Armen
Karaoghlanian, Intellect, 96pp, paperback,
£20, ISBN 9781789382051
A highly visual, graphic analysis
of film in terms of architecture,
cinematic spaces and production
design. Architectural floor-plan
drawings are presented alongside
short, critical discussions of key 20th-
and 21st-century films which help the
reader to evaluate architectural spaces
in film and think about the stories
they tell. Including The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari, Rope, Le Mépris, Playtime, 2001:
A Space Odyssey, Home Alone, Panic
Room, A Single Man, Her and Columbus.
http://www.intellectbooks.com/the-
architecture-of-cinematic-spaces