Book reviews by Allen
1983
Review of the journal Ciné-tracts 1977-1982, Framework 20, 57-8.
1985
"Re-Writing American Film History", on The Classical Hollywood Cinema by Bordwell, Staiger & Thompson, Framework 29, 86-95.
1988
"Brushing classical Hollywood narrative against the grain of history", on Power and Paranoia: History, Narrative and the American Cinema, 1940-1950, by Dana Polan, Camera Obscura 18 (September), 136-45.
1992
Signatures of the Visible, by Fredric Jameson, Film Quarterly 45:4 (Summer), 63-4.
Film reviews etc
Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (US, Charles Musser, 1982), Framework 22-23 (Autumn, 1983), 12-13.
Crimes and Misdemeanors (US, Woody Allen, 1989), Cineaste 17:4 (1990), 44-46.
The Life and Death of 9413 A Hollywood Extra (US, Florey & Vorkapich, 1928), Framework 21 (Summer, 1983), 10-14.
El Norte (US, Gregory Nava, 1983), Framework 26-27 (1985), 86-89.
Festival report: Turin 1982, "Turin - electric shadows", Framework 19 (1982), 53-55.
Festival report: Pesaro 1983, Framework 22-23 (Autumn, 1983), 74.
Richard Allen has also frequently written film criticism for The Psychoanalytic Review.
1996
Carroll, Noël, "Replies to Hammett and Allen" (on "Representation, Illusion and Cinema", in Carroll: Theorizing the Moving Image, 360-371.
1997
Buckland, Warren, "Traditions and Innovations in Film Theory" (on Projecting Illusion & Murray Smith's Engaging Characters), Quarterly Review of Film and Video 16:2, 297-19.
1998
Bardsley, Karen, "The 'I' of the Beholder", Film-Philosophy Electric Salon March, 1998.
Dix, Andrew, Review of Projecting Illusion, Journal of American Studies 32:2 (August), 363-7.
Projecting Illusion: Film Spectatorship and the Impression of Reality (Cambridge UP, 1995) 176 pp. [ISBN:0-521-47015-3]
Anthology edited with Murray Smith: Film Theory and Philosophy (Clarendon Press, 1997) 474 pp. [ISBN:0-19-815921-8]
Anthology, edited with S. Ishii Gonzalès: Alfred Hitchcock : Centenary Essays (Indiana University Press / Bfi Publishing, 1999)
Articles
1987
"Critical Theory and the Paradox of Modernist Discourse", Screen 28:2 (Spring), 69-85.
1990
"From Exhibition to Reception: Reflections on the Audience in Film Theory", Screen 31:4 (Winter), 347-356.
Dissertation: Representation, Meaning, and Experience in the Cinema: A Critical Study of Contemporary Film Theory
1993
"Cinema, Psychoanalysis, and the Film Spectator", Persistence of Vision 10, 5-33.
"Representation, Illusion, and the Cinema" Cinema Journal 32:2 (Winter), 21-48.
1997
"Avian Metaphor in The Birds", Hitchcick (1997-98), 40-67.
"Introduction: Film Theory and Philosophy" (with Murray Smith), in Film Theory and Philosophy, 1-36.
"Looking at Motion Pictures", in Film Theory and Philosophy, 76-94.
1998
Discussion: "Film Spectatorship: A Reply to Murray Smith", The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56:1, 61-3, with a reply by Smith following, 63-5.
1999
"Hitchcock, or the Pleasures of Metaskepticism", October 89 (Summer). Reprinted in Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays, 221-237.
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