PictureLike at Troynovant:
Projecting light through a theater darkly
via books about Moving Pictures (Movies, Film)
and of course Television series;
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 only if the review is framed with a smidgen of discussion about some principle of film-making technique (beware plot spoilers) . For reviews of films and television presentations in themselves, see Feature Films by Title and Reels 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.
  


       
Cocoanuts, The Marx Brothers RW Franson
Complete Fawlty Towers, The John Cleese
  & Connie Booth
RW Franson
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
Harlan Ellison's Watching Harlan Ellison RW Franson
Harpo Speaks Harpo Marx
  & Rowland Barber 
RW Franson
Lord of the Rings, The
      (with Balrog Eggs)
Tolkien / Jackson RW Franson,
DH Franson
Print the Legend:
  The Life and Times of John Ford
Scott Eyman RW Franson
Seeking Chivalry and Finding Serenity S Farrell
Serenity Joss Whedon WH Stoddard
Watching Off-Center:
  Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity
RW Franson
      

[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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