A Robin Wood Bibliography
A descriptive, illustrated bibliography of the work of noted film critic
Robin Wood
Magazines
The Advocate
[Wood may have contributed to this publication, most likely in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, but certainly no later than 1996.]
American Film
"Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen," Volume 7, No. 10, 1982, pages 57 - 64, 81. [Here, Wood is one of several contributor to a discussion conducted by Albert LaValley, about the representation of gayness and gay/lesbian relationships in recent Hollywood films.]
"Beauty Bests the Beast, " September, 1983.
"Fear of Spying, " November, 1983, Volume 9, No. 2, pages 28 - 35. [The title of this article waseditorially imposed, the original title being "Male desire, Male anxiety: The Essential Hitchcock," under which title the material re-appears in Wood's Hitchcock's Films Revisited.]
The Australian Journal of Screen Theory
"The Homosexual Subtext: Raging Bull, " Issue No. 15 - 16, 1983.
Canadian Forum
"Cruising and Gay Lib, " May, 1980, pages 41 and 39.
"Hollywood Recuperates, " November, 1980, pages 38 - 39.
"Love Stories, " March, 1981, page 38.
"'Art' and Alligators, " August, 1981, pages 38, 49.
"Airing the Closet [a review of Vito Russo's book The Celluloid Closet]," February, 1982, pages 35 - 36.
"Losey vs. Mozart, " February, 1982, pages 45 - 46.
"Returning the Look: Eyes of a Stranger, " June - July, 1982, pages 47 - 48.
"Bertrand Tavernier: Realism Rehabilitated, " December- January, 1982-3, pages 47, 49.
"The Radicalism of Scorsese, " May 1983, pages 39 - 40.
"Hollywood and the Other, " July, 1983, pages 41 - 42.
"Who Am I to Doubt the Jedi?, " August - September, 1983, pages 44 - 45.
"Heaven's Gate Reopened, " October, 1983, pages 37, 41.
"Call Me Ishmael, " November, 1983, pages 41 - 42.
"Merry Christmas, Mr. Oshima, " December, 1983, pages 37 - 38.
"King Meets Cronenberg, " January, 1984, pages 35 - 36.
"Screening Catastrophe, " February, 1984, pages 40 - 41.
"Directing Women, " March, 1984, pages 41 - 42.
"Directing Women II, " April, 1984, pages 37 - 38.
"Feminist Strategies, " May, 1984, pages 39 - 40.
"The Beresford Mystery, " June - July, 1984, pages 46 - 47.
Letter on Bruce Beresford, October, 1984, page 5.
"Repo Man, " October, 1984, pages 35, 38.
"Feeling Sorry for Men, " November, 1984, pages 41 - 42.
"Other Countries, " December, 1984, pages 38 - 39.
"Dead End, " January, 1985 [misprinted 1984 in the issue], pages 41 - 42.
"Country Matters, " March, 1985, pages 40 - 41.
"Kate and Keaton, " April, 1985, pages 39 - 40.
Letter entitled "Freud, Fetishism and the Phallus, " May 1985, pages 5 - 6.
"Whose Cinema?, " May, 1985, pages 37 - 38 [A response to Bruce Eder's controversial essay "The Cinema We Need, " in Canadian Forum, February, 1985, pages 32 - 35].
"Bertrand Tavernier, " June - July, 1985, pages 49 - 50.
"Yentl Goes to Hollywood, " August - September, 1985, pages 49 - 50.
"The Dragonslayers, " November, 1985, pages 41 - 42.
"Xmas Hollywood Style, " December, 1985, pages 33 - 34.
"The Leaden Times, " January, 1986, pages 41 - 42.
Cahiers du cinema
"Psychanalyse de psycho, " Issue No. 113, November, 1960.
Chaplin
"Marnie, " Issue No. 54, March, 1965.
"Hawks!, " Issue No. 62, March, 1966.
Christopher Street
[Still subject to research. Wood apparently contributed to Christopher Street c. 1978 - 1983. ]
Cine
"El retorno de lo reprimido, " Issue No. TK, June - July, 1980.
December
"The Question of Fellini Continnued, " Issue No. 2 - 3, Summer, 1967.
Definition
"The Toad in the Road," Issue No. 3, 1960 .
"New Criticism?, " Issue No. TK, 1961 (?).
Film Comment
"Tabu, " Issue No. 2, Summer, 1971.
"Shall We Gather At the River?: The Late Films of John Ford, " Issue No. 3, Fall, 1971.
"Lost in the Wood, " Issue No. 4, November - December, 1972. [Under the pseudonym of George Kaplan, which is the name of the non existent spy in North By Northwest: the essay is an extended auto-critique, and was later reprinted in subsequent editions of Wood's Hitchcock book.]
"Letter", Volume 9, No. 2, January - February, 1973, page 70. [This is an interesting anomaly in the Wood bibliography. This is a letter written in "Swedish" English under the pseudonym "Cornelius Spegel," a character in Bergman's The Face, from 1958. The letter concerns "George Kaplan"'s article on Wood's treatment of Hitchcock (see the citation above).
"To Have (Written) and To Have Not (Directed), " Issue No. 3, May - June, 1973.
"Art and Ideology: Notes on Silk Stockings, " Issue No. 3, May - June, 1975.
"Against Conclusions, " Issue No. 5, September - October, 1975.
"New Cinema at Edinburgh, " Issue No. 6, November - December, 1975.
"Democracy and Shpontanuity: Leo McCarey and the Hollywood Tradition, " Issue No. 1, January - February, 1976.
Review of the book Jacques Tourneur, Issue No. 1, January - February, 1976.
"Acting Up, " Issue No. 2, March - April, 1976.
"Murnau's Midnight to Sunrise, " Issue No. 3, May - June, 1976.
"Old Wine, New Bottles: Structuralism or Humanism?, " Issue No. 6, November - December, 1976.
"Ideology, Genre, and Auteur, " Issue No. 1, January - February, 1977.
"Realism and Revolution, " Issue No. 3, May - June, 1977.
"Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic, " Issue No. 1, January - February, 1978.
"Return of the Repressed, " Issue No. 4, July - August, 1978.
"Gods and Monsters, " Issue No. 5, September - October, 1978, pages 19 - 25. [A longer version of material that was later truncated for Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan.]
"Never Never Change, Always Going to Dance [on Fred Astaire], " September - October, 1979.
"The Dyer's Hand: Stars and Gays, " Issue No. 1, January - February, 1980.
"Neglected Nightmares, " Issue No. 2, March - April, 1980.
"The Players: Film Comment's Nineties Poll, " Issue No. 1, January - February, 2000.
"Fresh Meat, " Volume 44, Issue No. 1, January - February, 2008, pages 28 - 31.
" A Better Tomorrow," Volume 44, Issue No. 2, March - April, 2008, pages 30 - 31.
" Private Property: Patrice Chéreau's Gabrielle and the Collapse of Western Civilization," Volume 44, Issue No. 6, November - December, 2008, pages 50 - 52, 54, 56 - 57.
Film Criticism
" Critical Positions and the End of Civilization: or, A Refusal to Join the Club, " Issue No. 2 - 3, Winter - Spring, 1993.
Filmhäftet
" 'I Just Went Gay All of a Sudden': Bögar i 1990-talets amerikanska komedier, " Issue No. 109, 1, 2000.
" Ur marionetternas liv: Ingmar Bergman, Sverige och jag, " Issue No. 111, 3, 2000.
" Michael Haneke: bortom alla kompromisser, " Issue No. 114, 1, 2001.
Film International
This magazine is the reborn version of the previous listing. Some of its content is one line, but as of 2006, apparently only during the shelf life of the physical issue. Frankly, it is unclear where the two essays listed below first appear, in issue 21 or earlier, or neither. For now, we are guessing that they appear in issue No. 21.
"Against and For Irreversible," Volume 1, No. 5, September, 2003.
"Revenge is Sweet: The Bitterness of Audition," Volume 2, No. 7, January, 2004.
Claire Dennis: Cinema of Transgression, Part One," Volume 2, No. 9, May, 2004.
"Only (Dis)Connect; and Never Relaxez-Vous; or, 'I Can't Sleep', Claire Denis: Cinema of Transgression, Part Two," Volume 2, No. 11, September, 2004.
"The Heroism of Disobedience and Deceit: Where Is the Friend," Volume 3, No. 14, March, 2005.
"Exodus Collides with the Kedma," Volume 3, No. 18, November, 2005. [On Preminger and Amos Gitai.]
"Vive L'Amour," Volume 4, No. 19, January, 2006. [On Tsai Ming-liang.]
"The skull beneath the skin: Patrice Chéreau and Son Frère," Volume 4, No. 21, July, 2006.
"Wild Reeds: a film of the past, for our future," Volume 4, No. 23, October.
"From Ruggles to Rally; or, America, America! The strange career of Leo McCarey," Volume 5, No. 3, May, 2007.
[One publication may be missing from the Film International list, as Wood may have contributed an essay on Michael Haneke to the publication.]
Film Quarterly
"Narrative Pleasures: Two Films by Jacques Rivette, " Issue No. 1, Fall, 1981.
"On and Around Brokeback Mountain, " Volume 60;Issue No. 1, Spring, 2007, pages 28 - 31.
Focus!
"Who the Hell is Howard Hawks?," [part one] Issue No. 1, February 1967.
"Who the Hell is Howard Hawks?," [part two] Issue No. 2, March[?], 1967.
Fugue
[From May, 1978 to June, 1980, Wood contributed nine reviews of newly released classical music recordings for the Toronto publication Fugue. These reviews are about one page long. The order may be incorrect, as the format of record reviews doesn't establish much continuity. ] [Research contributed by Michael Celec.]
Mozart, a selection of piano concertos, recorded by The Prague Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Paul Bodura-Skoda.
Berwald, various recordings, by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Dvorak, various recordings, by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mendelssohn, various recordings, by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Schubert, Quartet in D Minor, by the Smetana Quartet.
Schubert, Symphony No. 9 in D, by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
Stravinksy, The Rite of Spring, and Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet, by the Minnesota Orchestra.
Suk, piano works, by Pavel Stepan.
Tchaikovsky, various recordings, by various orchestras.
Lumiere
"Essays on the Swedish Cinema, " Issue No. 32, March 1974.
"Essays on the Swedish Cinema, " Issue No. 33, April - May 1974.
Mosaic
"Burying the Undead: The Use and Obsolescence of Count Dracula, " Issue No. 2, March 1967.
Motion
"The Criminal, " Issue No. 4, February, 1963.
The New Left Review
"Jean-Luc Godard, " Issue No. 39, September - October, 1966, pages 77 - 8. [The material in this essay later appeared in longer form in "Society and Tradition: An Approach to Jean-Luc Godard" in Jean-Luc Godard, edited by Toby Mussman, Dutton, New York, 1968, pages 179 - 190.]
[The article is followed by a reply by Peter Wollen, writing under the
pseuodonym "Lee Russell," pages 83 - 87]
New York Film Bulletin
"New Criticism?, " Issue No. 2, 1961.
Oxford Opinion
"Apu, Les Bonnes Femmes, and the Critics," Issue No. TK, Month TK, 1960.
"The Adventure, " Issue No. 47, May 1961.
Positif
" Avec la même sérénité," Issue No. 126, April, 1971, pages 1 - 8. [Written with Aline Wood; translated from the English by Jeannine Ciment; A critical analysis of Arthur Penn's Little Big Man].
"Ingmar Bergman et Le Lien," Issue No. 137, April, 1972, pages 27 - 34. [translated from the English by Jeannine Ciment; A critical analysis of Bergman's The Touch]
Screen
"Ghostly Paradigm and H.F.C.: A Reply to Alan Lovell, " Issue No. 3, May - June, 1969.
Screen Education
" Film Studies at the University of Warwick, " Issue No. 19, Summer, 1976.
Se — det er Film
"Den ny kritik, " Issue No. 3, 1966.
Sight and Sound
"Top Ten 1972, " Issue No. 1, January - February, 1972.
"Top Ten 1982, " Issue No. 4, Autumn, 1982.
"Top Ten Films, " Issue No. 8, December, 1992.
Take One
"Hitchcock's British Films, " Volume 6, Number 1, May, 1978, pages 53 - 54 [a review of Maurice Yacowar's critical study, Hitchcock's British Films].
University Vision
"Film Studies at Warwick, " Issue No. 12, December, 1974.
[ Cambridge Student Magazine, Title Currently Unknown]
[According to Wood's introductin to the latest version of Hitchcock's Films, Robin Wood contributed fiction to a Cambridge student magazine in the very early 1950s. Research continues in tracking down these titles. ]
The Welwyn Garden City High School Film Bulletin
[This school publication may contain the first film criticism by Robin Wood. Research continues about this and other early.]
Wide Angle
"Filmmaking: An Interview with Wim Wenders," Peter Lehman, Robin Wood, and Edward Lachman, Wide Angle, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1978, pages 73 - 79.
"The American Family Comedy: From Meet Me in St. Louis to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ," Peter Lehman, Robin Wood, and Edward Lachman, Wide Angle, Vol. TK, No. 2, 1979, pages TK.
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