Christian Keathley is Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College, USA. He is author of Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees (2005) and co-author of The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound & Image (2016). His writing has been published in journals such as Screen and MOVIE. Robert B. Ray is Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA. He is author of A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930–1980 (1985), The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy (1995), How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies (2001), The ABCs of Classic Hollywood (2008), Walden X 40: Essays on Thoreau (2012) and The Structure of Complex Images (2020).
"An exemplary analysis of the workings of Pakula’s film, a truly insightful study of the way it has been put together and of the sense that its formal details make … I can’t recommend it highly enough. * Film Alert 101 * This stealthy dissection of Alan J. Pakula's seminal political thriller promises to ""imitate"" reporters Bernstein and Woodward by ""asking questions and taking notes and making connections"". Job Done. Strong on context, the book really takes flight with its often shot-by-shot analysis, which places everything from bicycle wheels to banjos under the microscope. -- James Mottram * Total Film *"