PictureLike at Troynovant: works about moving pictures

PictureLike at Troynovant:
projecting light through a theater darkly
via works about moving pictures:
movies, film, & television;
listed by Title

These mostly are reviews of books about the history and culture of film and its best practitioners. Source reviews (of films, novels, stories, histories) are listed here if the review includes discussion of some principle of film-making technique (beware plot spoilers). For reviews of films and television presentations in themselves, see Feature Film reviews by Title and Reel reviews by Title. For a companion list dealing with literature and the critical process, see LitCrit at Troynovant. We do not shoot for comprehensive coverage of actors and actresses and so on, but for insights into how and why the medium of film works its wonders for us.


Big Chill, The	Lawrence Kasdan / William Hurt, Kevin Kline	RW Franson
Broadway Babies Say Goodnight Musicals Then and Now	Mark Steyn	RW Franson

Campaign of the Century, The Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics	Greg Mitchell	RW Franson
Cocoanuts, The	Marx Brothers	RW Franson
Coining at Troynovant quantifying value into commodity; true coin, false coin, enterprise & economics [Ginger Rogers]
Complete Fawlty Towers, The [scripts]	John Cleese & Connie Booth	RW Franson

Everything is Fake Now		D Greenfield

Fawlty Towers: Fully Booked	Morris Bright & Robert Ross	RW Franson
Finding Serenity Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly	Jane Espenson	RW Franson
Firefly dvd series	Joss Whedon	RW Franson, DH Franson

Goodnight, Irene	The Weavers / Duke Goldstone	RW Franson

Harlan Ellison's Watching	Harlan Ellison	RW Franson
Harpo Speaks	Harpo Marx & Rowland Barber	RW Franson

Jack of Eagles	James Blish	RW Franson

Lord of the Rings, The (with Balrog Eggs)	J.R.R. Tolkien / Peter Jackson	RW Franson, DH Franson

Magic in the Moonlight	Woody Allen / Colin Firth, Emma Stone	RW Franson
Miracle	Connie Willis	RW Franson
Miracle and Other Christmas Stories	Connie Willis	RW Franson

Old Cars in the Movies Prop Cars, Comedy Trick Cars, Gangster Cars		WR Franson
Our Accretive Creation, the Man of Steel America's "Superman" Myth		K Spell

Print the Legend The Life and Times of John Ford	Scott Eyman	RW Franson
Proud Robot, The (Robots Have No Tails)	Henry Kuttner	RW Franson

Remake	Connie Willis	RW Franson

Seeking Chivalry and Finding Serenity		S Farrell
Serenity	Joss Whedon	WH Stoddard

Victory at Sea	Henry Salomon; Richard Rodgers	RW Franson

Watching Off-Center Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity		RW Franson
Western and the West, The		K Spell
Why Superheroes Wear Capes		WH Stoddard

[Caius Martius' house in Rome.]

Volumnia:

honour ... was no better than, picture-like, to hang by th' wall if renown made it not stir —

William Shakespeare
Coriolanis, 1.3.8-10



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