Film Quarterly (Summer 1976) [cover: Diane Nelson in DREAMWOOD]
- Periodical
- Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976
Berkeley: University of California Press. Near Fine. 1976. (Vol. XXIX, No. 4). Periodical. [nice clean copy, faint handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) Feature articles: "Celebration: Four Films by James Broughton," by Terry Sheehy; "Confessions of a Festival Goer," by Gideon Bachmann; "From Militant Cinema to Neo-Realism: The Example of PUEBRO CHICO," by Erich Keel (commentary on the Bolivian film of that name. Also: a round-up of (mostly) brief reviews of recent film books, including "Movie-Made America," by Robert Sklar, "Latin American Cinema: Film and History," by E. Bradford Burns, and "The Cubist Cinema," by Standish D. Lowder. Film reviews: TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese); F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles); A PAGE OF MADNESS (Teinosuke Kinugasa); A VILLAGE PRODUCTION OF HAMLET (a Yugoslavian feature film); THE HART OF LONDON (Jack Chambers); CROSSROADS (Bruce Conner); DIANE (Mary Feldhaus-Weber). A "Controversy and Correspondence" section entitled "A Short Defense of Screwball Comedy" presents Leland Poague's beefs about writer Karyn Kay's definition of screwball comedy (embedded in a film review from a previous issue) and Kay's response. .