Film Matters is seeking current undergraduate students to review some recent academic titles for us. The available books are listed below:
- TAKEN Bollywood’s India: A Public Fantasy, by Priya Joshi (Columbia UP)
- TAKEN Critical Approaches to the Films of Robert Rodriguez, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama (U of Texas P)
- TAKEN Documenting Cityscapes: Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film, by Ivan Villarmea Alvarez (Wallflower)
- TAKEN Documents of Utopia: The Politics of Experimental Documentary, by Paolo Magagnoli (Wallflower)
- TAKEN The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, second edition, edited by Barry Keith Grant (U of Texas P)
- TAKEN The Encyclopedia of Film Composers, by Thomas S. Hischak (Rowman & Littlefield)
- TAKEN Guerrilla Film Scoring: Practical Advice from Hollywood Composers, by Jeremy Borum (Rowman & Littlefield)
- TAKEN Hollywood and Hitler 1933-1939, by Thomas Doherty (Columbia UP)
- TAKEN Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora, by Noah A. Tsika (Indiana UP)
- TAKEN The Oxford Handbook of Film Music Studies, edited by David Neumeyer (Oxford UP)
- TAKEN Studying the British Crime Film, by Paul Elliott (Auteur)
Students interested in this opportunity should send a statement of interest (taking care to indicate any relevant qualifications for reviewing a specific title, like past course work, etc.) to: futurefilmscholars AT gmail.com
Priority will be given to emails received before May 15, 2015.
Students who are selected for this opportunity will receive a review copy of the book, which they can keep with our (and the publisher’s) compliments in exchange for the written review. This is an excellent way to build experience and CVs!
