Reel Politique: Book Review, Close-Up p2
Over at QuickStopEntertainment, they’ve published my review of the second issue of Close-Up, a film journal in book form.
The thrust of the issue is to explore the implications, strengths, and weaknesses of what could be called Tonal Studies in film. Under the editorship of Douglas Pye and John Gibbs, the issue makes a dramatic statement about the utility of this approach to film. What is Tonal Studies? Click the link and find out! In addition to the book review itself, I’ve appended two interviews with the high priests of Tonal Studies, one with editor Pye himself, and the second with George Wilson, the author of Narratives in Light, one of the key texts in the movement.