[Commlist] New book: At the Movies, Film Reviewing, and Screenwriting

Intellect is pleased to share that /At the Movies, Film Reviewing, and 
Screenwriting: Selective Affinities and Cultural Mediation 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/at-the-movies-film-reviewing-and-screenwriting>/, by Steven 
Maras, is out in hardback!

/At the Movies, Film Reviewing, and Screenwriting/ discusses the 
interplay between film criticism and screenwriting, providing a 
different view on how reviewers engage with story and dialogue. Steven 
Maras draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of cultural taste to examine 
film reviewing as a key site of cultural production, analyzing ten years 
of television scripts from At the Movies (2004–2014). Hosted by 
Australia’s most influential film critics Margaret Pomeranz and David 
Stratton, this long-running program shaped public discourse on cinema 
and left an indelible mark on Australian screen culture.

Studying the program’s broadcast scripts, this book addresses how film 
reviewing operates as both critique and storytelling. Of particular 
interest to media scholars, screenwriting researchers and cinephiles 
alike, it provides fresh insights into the evolving role of criticism in 
contemporary screen culture. Engaging and deeply researched, this work 
rightfully emphasizes the cultural significance of movie criticism in 
film culture in Australia and beyond.


*_Table of Contents
_*
*List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
About/ At the Movies/
Preface*

*1. /At the Movies/, Reviewing and Screenwriting *
- From Elective to Selective Affinities
- Film Reviewing

    Two Approaches: Functionalism and Rhetoric
    Shifting the Criticism/Reviewing Distinction

- Screenwriting

*2. At the Movies and Its Influence
*- The Business of Managing the Review Process

    Debunking the Powerful Critic Theory

- The Margaret and David Effect
- A Variable Cultural Field: From Restricted to Large-Scale
- The Persona of the Critic
- The Responsibilities of the Reviewer

    Proximity to Industry
    The Australian New Wave


*3. Arbiters of Taste
*- Inside the Gut
- Where the Reviewer Sits
- Summary Judgements
- The Gospel According to David and Margaret
- Taste, Taste Culture or Cultural Forum

*4. The Politics of Classification
*- /Ken Park/ (2002)
- /Romper Stomper/ (1992)
- /Wolf Creek 2/ (2013)

*5. Three Discourse Frames (Australia, 1987–2002)
*- Frame 1: Funding Methods and Creative Outcomes
- Frame 2: The Crisis in the Film Industry and the Script as Problematic 
Object
- Frame 3: The Doxa

*6. The Discursive Construction of Screenwriting in /At the 
Movies/ (2004–2014)*
- Method
- Coding: Script, Screenplay, Screenwriter
- Analysis

*7. The Well-Made Screenplay: /At the Movies/ as an Aesthetic Enterprise
*- Performing the Doxa
- Problematizations and Conclusions

*8. In Interview: David Stratton on Reviewing and /At the Movies/*

*9. In Interview: Margaret Pomeranz on Reviewing and /At the Movies/*

*Appendix 1:* Notes on Method, Verification and Exclusions
*Appendix 2: *‘Written by’
*Appendix 3:* DVD Classics
*Appendix 4:* Selective Reference List of Descriptors used by Margaret 
and David
*List of Film and Television Works Cited
References
Index*

Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/at-the-movies-film-reviewing-and-screenwriting 
<http://www.intellectbooks.com/at-the-movies-film-reviewing-and-screenwriting>

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