Australian Book Review

June-July 2018, no. 402

June-July 2018, no. 402

Welcome to the June-July Film and Television issue! Highlights include:

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Commentary

'Witch-hunt or a great awakening?: Tensions surrounding the #MeToo movement' by Felicity Chaplin

by Felicity Chaplin

Commentary

'The drama of it: Television comedy's new aesthetic' by James McNamara

by James McNamara

Film

2018 Australian Book Review Film Survey

by Hidden Author

Society

Rape and Resistance: Understanding the complexities of sexual violation by Linda Martín Alcoff

by Alecia Simmonds

Advances

Note from the guest editor - James McNamara

by James McNamara

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk - June–July 2018

by Hidden Author

Commentary

'The Brodie set" Muriel Spark’s "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"' by Sally Grant

Commentary

On 'Black Panther' by Dilan Gunawardana

by Dilan Gunawardana

Film

Hitler and Film: The Führer’s hidden passion by Bill Niven

by Peter Goldsworthy

Film

'La Parisienne' in Cinema: Between art and life by Felicity Chaplin

by Philippa Hawker

Film

Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s filmmakers changed movie storytelling by David Bordwell

by Desley Deacon

Film

Warner Bros: The Making of an American movie studio by David Thomson

Film

Beyond the Silver Screen: A history of women, filmmaking and film culture in Australia 1920–1990 by Mary Tomsic

by Suzy Freeman-Greene

Film

Making a Meal of It: Writing about film by Brian McFarlane

Cultural Studies

Love and Lament: An essay on the arts in Australia in the twentieth century by Margaret Plant

Economics

The Big Four: The curious past and perilous future of the global accounting monopoly by Ian D. Gow and Stuart Kells

by Rémy Davison

Economics

Fair Share: Competing claims and Australia’s economic future by Stephen Bell and Michael Keating

by Richard Walsh

Fiction

Census by Jesse Ball

by Beejay Silcox

Fiction

Last Stories by William Trevor

by Geordie Williamson

Fiction

Bohemia Beach by Justine Ettler

by Fiona Wright

Fiction

The Friendly Ones by Philip Hensher

by Robert Dessaix

Fiction

The Bridge edited by Enza Gandolfo

by Carol Middleton

Fiction

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin, translated by Michael Hofmann

by Joachim Redner

Poetry

Zanzibar Light by Philip Mead

by Judith Bishop

Poem

'Interruption: An Assay', a new poem by Jane Hirshfield

by Jane Hirshfield

Philosophy

Enlightenment Now: The case for reason, science, humanism and progress by Steven Pinker

by Benjamin Madden

Psychology

The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment by Gina Perry

Memoir

The year everything changed: 2001 by Phillipa McGuinness

True Crime

Waiting for Elijah by Kate Wild

by Johanna Leggatt

Biology

The Story of Shit by Midas Dekkers, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier

Memoir

Do Oysters Get Bored?: A curious life by Rozanna Lilley

by Susan Sheridan

Poet of the Month

Poet of the Month with Philip Mead

Poetry

Hard Horizons by Geoff Page & The Left Hand Mirror by Ron Pretty

by Dennis Haskell

Critic of the Month

Critic of the Month with Brenda Niall

Letters

Letters to the Editor - June–July 2018

by Hidden Author