Film 2008
Content
New and Noteworthy Titles 2008
Film Studies
CONTENTS
Film History ................................................... 2 History on Film ..............................................6 Film Criticism ................................................8 Gender & Film ............................................. 22 Film Genres ................................................. 23 Cultographies by Wallflower Press .............. 28 Film Reference .............................................29 International Film .........................................31 Film Directors .............................................. 39 Film Making .................................................44 Sound & Music ............................................46 Television & Radio ....................................... 47 Author / Title Index ..................................... 50 Order Form ...................................................51
FILM HISTORY
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AliSon GriffithS
ShiverS Down Your Spine
Cinema & the History of the Immersive View
Shivers Down Your Spine
Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View
Alison Griffiths
“An important historical and theoretical voyage of discovery, this book leads the reader into neglected realms of spatial illusions that preceded, inflected, and may outlast the movies as we know them.”—Tom Gunning, University of Chicago
Cover Illustration: Film Strip: © Alex White, Fotolia.com Manuscript queries and proposals can be sent to the Film Studies editor, Jennifer Crewe at jc373@ columbia.edu For a complete listing of Columbia’s titles or for more information about any book in this catalog, visit our web site: www.cup.columbia.edu To order Wallflower Press books outside of the United States, Canada and Latin America, please contact Wallflower Press directly at: www.wallflowerpress.co.uk To order Auteur Publishing books outside of the United States, Canada and Latin America, please contact Auteur Publishing directly at: www.auteur.co.uk Most titles in this catalog pulished by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the Press. If no UK price appears, it is most likely from Columbia only in the United States, its possessions, and Canada Titles published by Wallflower Press are available in the United States, Canada and Latin America from Columbia. Titles published by The Chinese University Press are available from Columbia only in Canada and the United States. Titles published by Edinburgh University Press are available from Columbia only in the United States and Latin America.
Since their inception, museums of science and natural history have mixed education and entertainment to incredible, eye-opening effect. Such modern technologies as touch-screen kiosks, videowalls, 3-D animation, podcasts, and IMAX draw spectators to museums in large numbers, promising a deeper understanding of the natural world through an expansive form of sensual experience. These interactive modes of exhibition send “shivers” down our spines, reflecting the distinct cognitive and visceral mapping skills we bring to spectacular architecture and illusionistic media. Focusing on several historical case studies, Alison Griffiths explores the uncanny and unforgettable impact of the panorama, planetarium, IMAX theater, and the medieval cathedral on the spectator. Through her analysis Griffiths reveals the sometimes surprising antecedents of our modern forms of media.
$45.00 / £6.50 cloth 978-0-231-12988-6 july 008 448 pages film and culture series
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Eye of the Century
Film, Experience, Modernity
Francesco Casetti
“An extraordinarily rich meditation on the ways that cinema operated at the very heart of the unruly twentieth century.”—Charles Musser, Yale University
Hollywood’s Censor
Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration
Thomas Doherty
“Doherty writes with such wit and verve, bringing the past to life... a very entertaining read.” —Publishers Weekly “Compelling, colorful, insightful, and nearly encyclopedic in detail...destined to become the definitive scholarly biography of Breen. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal “[An] entertaining and rigorous biography of Breen.”—New York Times Book Review
In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco Casetti situates the cinematic experience within discourses of twentiethcentury modernity. He suggests that film defined a unique gaze, not only because it recorded many of the century’s most important events, but also because it determined the manner in which they were received. Casetti begins by examining film’s nature as a medium in an age obsessed with immediacy, nearness, and accessibility. He considers the myths and rituals cinema constructed on the screen and in the theater and how they provided new images and behaviors that responded to emerging concerns, ideas, and social orders.
$7.50 / £16.00 paper 978-0-231-13995-3 $79.50 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-13994-6 june 008 288 pages film and culture series
From 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a mediasavvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office responsible for censoring the American screen. Though little known outside the ranks of the studio system, this former journalist and public relations agent was one of the most powerful men in the motion picture industry. Cultural historian Thomas Doherty tells the absorbing story of Breen’s ascent to power and the widespread effects of his reign.
$9.50 / £17.50 cloth 978-0-231-14358-5 007 496 pages
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FILM HISTORY
George Gallup in Hollywood
Susan Ohmer
“A well-detailed account of this obscure chapter in cinema history . . . Recommended.”—Library Journal “A fascinating and exciting book.”—Public Opinion Quarterly
Silent Film Sound
Rick Altman
Winner of the Limina Award for Best Cinema Studies Book Winner of the Theater Library Association Award
“Rick Altman has given us a magnum opus... a stunningly original work of film history.”—Film Quarterly “Silent Film Sound is a bible of reference information and vintage photos.”—Bookwatch “A magisterial effort of a type rarely seen in cinema today... Altman’s history is precise, reflective, and human.”—Cinema Journal
George Gallup’s polling techniques first achieved fame when he accurately predicted that Franklin D. Roosevelt would be reelected president in 1936. Hollywood studio executives quickly pounced on the value of Gallup’s research, and soon Gallup was gauging reactions to stars and scripts for RKO Pictures, David O. Selznick, and Walt Disney and taking the public’s temperature on Orson Welles and Desi Arnaz, couples such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and films like Gone with the Wind, Dumbo, and Fantasia. Through interviews and extensive research, Susan Ohmer traces Gallup’s groundbreaking approach to market research from his early education in the advertising industry to his later work in Hollywood.
$5.50 / £15.00 paper 978-0-231-12133-0 $7.50 / £4.50 cloth 978-0-231-12132-3 006 336 pages / 17 illus. film and culture series
Based on extensive original research and filled with gorgeous illustrations, Silent Film Sound reconsiders all aspects of sound practices during the silent film period in America. Beginning with sound accompaniment and continuing through to the more familiar sound practices of the 1920s, renowned film historian Rick Altman discusses the variety of sound strategies cinema exhibitors used to differentiate their products.
$9.00 / £17.00 paper 978-0-231-11663-3 $75.00 / £44.00 cloth 978-0-231-11662-6 007 480 pages film and culture series
Also by Rick Altman
A Theory of Narrative
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The Story of the Century!
An International Newsfilm Conference
Edited by C. Jeavons, J. Mercer, and D. Kirchner With contributions by cameramen, editors, producers, film and television researchers, and academics, this book provides lively insights into the world of the newsfilm.
$5.00 paper 978-0-901299-69-7
Electric Sounds
Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media
Steve J. Wurtzler
“Essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century audio: the hum and buzz of amplified sound as well as the corporate ka-ching that helped to make it so pervasive.”—Lisa Gitelman, author of Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture “Extensively researched. . . Recommended.” —Choice
006 170 pages Wallflower Press, Distributor of the British Universities Film & Video Council
Subversion
The Definitive History of Underground Cinema
Duncan Reekie Duncan Reekie explores the history of underground cinema, including the British independent and French avant-garde cinemas of the 1920s, the counterculture film movements of the 1960s, the microcinema resurgence of the 1990s, and beyond. Dispensing with simplistic “art versus commerce” discourses, Subversion not only discovers the cultural roots of underground filmmaking in bohemian cabarets of nineteenth-century Paris and the fairbooths of medieval London, but situates the underground as a radical and popular subculture separate from mainstream cinema and avant-garde film.
$6.00 paper 978-1-905674-21-3 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-22-0 007 260 pages / 20 illus. Wallflower Press
Electric Sounds brings to vivid life an era when innovations in the production, recording, and transmission of sound revolutionized a number of different media, especially the radio, the phonograph, and the cinema. Steve J. Wurtzler’s impeccably researched history adds a new dimension to the study of sound media, proving that the ultimate form technology takes is never predetermined. Rather, it is shaped by conflicting visions of technological possibility in economic, cultural, and political realms.
$4.50 / £0.50 cloth 978-0-231-13676-1 007 416 pages / 15 illus. film and culture series
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The Columbia Companion to American History on Film
How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past
Edited by Peter C. Rollins
Winner of the Popular Culture Association’s Ray and Pat Browne Award for a reference work. Finalist: Theater Library Association Award
The Battle of Britain on Screen
‘The Few’ in British Film and Television Drama
S. P. Mackenzie The Battle of Britain on Screen examines the origins, development, and reception of the screen representations of “The Few” in the Battle of Britain. It explores both continuity and change of presentation in relation to a wartime event that acquired near-mythical dimensions in popular consciousness even before it happened. In addition to technical developments, considerable social, cultural, and political fluctuations occurred during this period.
$5.00 paper 978-0-7486-2390-7 $75.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2389-1 007 160 pages societies at war Edinburgh University Press
“Film buffs will find the mix of history and cinematic analysis captivating, while historians will be intrigued by the book’s analysis of popular culture.”—Publishers Weekly “An excellent print source. . . . Highly recommended.”—American Reference Books Annual “Highly recommended.”—Choice
$1.50 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-11223-9 $9.50 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-11222-2 006 696 pages
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Haunted Images
Film, Ethics, Testimony, and the Holocaust
Libby Saxton
“Haunted Images takes the study of Holocaust representation to new levels of theoretical sophistication. The various arguments are presented with lucidity, depth and dramatic finesse, offering an exciting reading to complex aesthetic issues and demanding ethical considerations, ultimately suggesting how the representations of the Holocaust and their critical discourse offer insights into the future of the image as witness.”—Ilan Avisar, Tel Aviv University
Uncovering the Holocaust
The International Reception of Night and Fog
Edited by Ewout van der Knaap Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog, 1956) by Alain Resnais carried the impact of the Holocaust to the cinema screen and to societies across the world. This volume, which coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the film’s release, examines its representation of the Holocaust and documents its reception in different contexts, countries, and societies, as well as its continuing place in the cultural memory of the Holocaust. It comprises a comparative study of the place of the film in the debates around the actuality and the meaning of the Holocaust in France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, the UK, and the U.S.
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-64-9 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-65-6 007 208 pages / 20 illus. Wallflower Press
Haunted Images considers a range of cinematic treatments of the Holocaust, using sustained textual analysis to radically rethink film as a witness to history. This volume redefines the particular challenges genocide presents to filmmakers, suggesting that filmic representations address the Holocaust as much through what is unseen as through what is visualized directly. Incorporating discussion of film such as Kapo (1960), Shoah (1985), and Histoire(s) du cinéma (1997), this work provides a compelling reading of European cinema’s response to the problems the Holocaust presents to filmmakers.
$8.00 paper 978-1-905674-35-0 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-36-7 008 256 pages Wallflower Press
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FILM CRITICISM
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Cinema and History
The Telling of Stories
Michael Chopra-Gant With its unparalleled capacity for realism, cinema seems uniquely positioned to bring history to life for a mass audience. Whether retelling stories about past events or reflecting more contemporary issues, cinema has been arguably the primary source of historical knowledge for many people from its earliest years up to the present. This volume examines key historical issues raised by popular film, including what film might tell us about the past, the reliability of movies as sources of historical knowledge, and how film might compare to more "serious" works of history. Cinema and History discusses the historical resonance of films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Gangs of New York (2002), and United 93 (2006).
$.00 paper 978-1-905674-59-6 june 008 144 pages short cuts
A Theory of Narrative
Rick Altman
“Altman draws on examples ranging from the Bible to Hollywood films, from classical epic and pastoral to medieval heroic poetry, and from saints’ lives to nineteenth- and twentiethcentury French, British, and American novels, all analyzed within an impressively parsimonious scheme.”—Peter Garrett, University of Illinois
Breaking away from traditional forms of analysis, award-winning scholar Rick Altman introduces a new approach to studying narrative, identifying three basic strategies: single focus, dual focus, and multiple focus. Analyzing an intentionally diverse selection of texts, Altman demonstrates how these strategies function in context, and illustrates their theoretical and practical applications in terms of textual analysis, literary and film history, social organization, religion, and politics. Altman employs his inventive terminology and precise analytical methods throughout this groundbreaking work, making it an ideal teaching tool for literary and film theory courses and for the general reader interested in exploring narrative.
$7.50 / £16.00 paper 978-0-231-14429-2 $79.50 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-14428-5 july 008 384 pages
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Scenes of Love and Murder
Renoir, Film, and Philosophy
Colin Davis Jean Renoir (1894–1979) is one of cinema history’s greatest directors. La Grande illusion (1937) and La Règle du jeu (1939) rank among the masterpieces of film. Turning to thinkers such as Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Girard, Derrida, and Cavell, Colin Davis examines Renoir’s films and illustrates how his work engages with some of the great philosophical questions. In particular, Renoir’s films reflect on the nature of murder and its link to desire, community, ethics, and the mystery of other minds. As his films strive, and often fail, to avoid the impasse of violence, they find creative ways of reinventing what it means to be human.
$7.50 paper 978-1-905674-63-3 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-64-0 july 008 224 pages Wallflower Press
The New European Cinema
Redrawing the Map
Rosalind Galt
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
“Brilliant.. . This book will interest all students of European culture, not just European Cinema. . . Essential.”—Choice “In her ambitious scope, analytical acumen and deep research, Rosalind Galt makes a daring and much-needed intervention.”—Film International
Rosalind Galt offers innovative readings of some of the most popular and influential European films of the 1990s, including Emir Kusturica’s Underground, Lars Von Trier’s Zentropa, and Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso. She considers how these films, made around the time of the revolutions of 1989, grappled with contemporary anxieties relating to the reunification of Germany, the disintegration of the Balkans, and a sense of historical loss and disenchantment. Going beyond the conventional focus on national cinemas, Galt considers how films from the Balkans to Scandinavia are recasting relationships among European cinema, history, and identity.
$4.50 / £16.00 paper 978-0-231-13717-1 $64.50 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-13716-4 006 336 pages / 53 illus. film and culture series
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Religion and Film
Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World
S. Brent Plate The religious altar and the film screen appear as cousins. Religion and film both re-create the known world and then present that alternative vision to their audience. Religion and Film explores the connection of these two worlds and how they mutually affect each other. The hypothesis is that by paying attention to the way films are constructed, we can shed light on the way religions are constructed, and vice versa. This book brings together religious studies and film studies, asking questions about film’s effect on religious attitudes and how millennia-old myths and rituals alter the making of film.
$.00 paper 978-1-905674-69-5 july 008 144 pages / 12 illus. short cuts Wallflower Press
Film and Philosophy
Taking Movies Seriously
Daniel C. Shaw In Film and Philosophy: Taking Movies Seriously philosophers and philosophical film theorists discuss movies in a way that takes cinema as seriously as any other fine art, leaving little doubt that the philosophy of film is a serious intellectual enterprise. After discussing the philosophical commitments of such early film theorists as Hugo Münsterberg and Sergei Eisenstein, this book offers detailed profiles of Stanley Cavell and Noël Carroll, providing archetypal examples of what it means to regard film philosophically.
$.00 paper 978-1-905674-70-1 july 008 144 pages / 12 illus. short cuts Wallflower Press
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Documentary Display
Re-Viewing Nonfiction Film and Video
Keith Beattie Not all documentary films and videos are sober depictions of the real world. Documentary representations can present expressive, entertaining, and spectacular images and explore modes of “showing,” in which sensation is the vehicle of cognition and knowledge. This display is analyzed within the popular and prominent forms of found-footage film, “rockumentary,” the city film, nonfiction surf film and video, and certain views of natural science. An accessible and informed study, its focus on entertaining, popular, spectacular, and sensational forms of nonfiction representation is an important contribution to theoretical analysis of documentary film and video.
$9.50 paper 978-1-905674-72-5 $90.00 cloth 978-1-905674-73-2 june 008 224 pages nonfictions Wallflower Press
Josef von Sternberg
The Case of Lena Smith
Edited by Alexander Horwath and Michael Omasta In his 1929 Hollywood production The Case of Lena Smith, director Josef von Sternberg brought to life his youthful memories of Vienna at the turn of the nineteenth century. Only a short fragment of this film survives, making The Case of Lena Smith one of the legendary lost masterpieces of American cinema. Bringing together 150 original stills and set designs, numerous script and production documents, and essays by eminent film historians, this book reconstructs Sternberg’s dramatic film about a young woman fighting the oppressive class system of imperial Vienna.
$.50 paper 978-1-901644-22-1 008 304 pages Wallflower Press, Distributor for the Austrian Film Museum
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Studying Blade Runner
Sean Redmond In Studying Blade Runner, Sean Redmond uses the key concepts of media and film studies—film language, representation, institutions, and audiences—to explore the significance of the film. Specifically, the book looks at the film’s breakthrough use of special effects as a narrative tool; its revolutionary representation of the future city; its treatment of racial and sexual politics; and its unique status as a text whose meaning was fundamentally altered in the re-released “Director’s Cut.”
$15.00 paper 978-1-903663-79-0 may 008 96 pages / 12 illus. studying films Auteur Publishing
Studying The Matrix
Anna Dawson Following the release of the sequels to the 1999 hit film, The Matrix, producer Joel Silver declared 2003 as “the Year of The Matrix.” Interest in all three films remains high and the original film makes an ideal case study in science fiction cinema. SF fans are absorbed in the film’s revolutionary special effects; action-movie buffs relish the conjunction of Hong Kong martial arts techniques with mainstream Hollywood aesthetics; and intellectuals immerse themselves in the film’s explicit evocation of Baudrillard and higher mathematics.
$15.00 paper 978-1-903663-82-0 may 008 96 pages / 12 illus. studying films Auteur Publishing
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Studying City of God
Stephanie Muir City of God was a huge international success, a combination of intoxicating, Hollywoodstyle filmmaking and hard-hitting, socialrealist subject matter. Stephanie Muir provides a consideration of the historical and industrial context of the film, a brief history of Latin American cinema, then a detailed account of filmmaking in Brazil. She looks at how the film uses the components of narrative to experiment with time while using traditional genre conventions. A detailed, illustrated analysis of the kinetic, scene-setting opening sequence is used to dissect the formal elements of the film.
$15.00 paper 978-1-903663-81-3 may 008 96 pages / 12 illus. studying films Auteur Publishing
Studying Chungking Express
Sean Redmond Wong Kar-Wai’s 1994 Chungking Express explores time and desire and, on an allegorical level, the perceived loss of independence that many felt would take place post-1997. Studying Chungking Express considers these historical details but also the key issues of form, authorship, representation, and identity. In particular, the book studies the film’s central place within the Hong Kong New Wave film movement; its radical film form— notably the cut-and-mix play with editing techniques, Wong Kar-wai’s signature as an auteur; its representation of the postmodern city, and its relationship to both Hollywood cinema and European art film.
$15.00 paper 978-1-903663-80-6 may 008 96 pages / 12 illus. studying films Auteur Publishing
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instructor’s editions of studying films available in an 8.5” x 11.65” format from auteur publishing Studying Surrealist and Fantasy Cinema
Neil Coombs
$0.00 paper 978-1-903663-73-8 007 70 pages / 20 illus.
Studying City of God
Stephanie Muir
$0.00 paper 978-1-903663-59-2 005 56 pages / 12 illus. studying films
Studying The Lord of the Rings
Anna Dawson
$0.00 paper 978-1-903663-66-0 006 82 pages / 30 illus.
Studying The Wicker Man
Andy Murray and Lorraine Rolston
$0.00s paper 978-1-903663-10-3 00 26 pages / 10 illus.
Studying The Matrix
Anna Dawson
$0.00 paper 978-1-903663-26-4 00 54 pages / 12 illus.
Studying American Beauty
Jeremy Points
$0.00s paper 978-1-903663-27-1 004 86 pages / 30 illus.
Studying The Usual Suspects
Judith Gunn
$0.00 paper 978-1-903663-69-1 006 72 pages / 20 illus.
Studying Donnie Darko
Danny Powell
$0.00s paper 978-1-903663-68-4 006 70 pages / 20 illus.
Studying The Third Man
Lynne Hibberd
$0.00 paper 978-1-903663-34-9 005 78 pages / 20 illus.
Studying Blade Runner
Sean Redmond
$0.00s paper 978-1-903663-24-0 00 50 pages / 12 illus. studying films
Studying Gladiator
Sandy Irvine
$0.00 paper 978-1-903663-57-8 005 62 pages / 20 illus.
Studying Chungking Express
Sean Redmond
$0.00s paper 978-1-903663-30-1 004 44 pages / 12 illus. studying films
Studying The Sixth Sense
Mark Kirwan-Hayhoe
$0.00 paper 978-1-903663-63-9 006 60 pages / 20 illus.
Studying From Russia with Love
Will Rimmer
$0.00s paper 978-1-903663-78-3 008 52 pages / 12 illus.
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Classroom Resources and Teacher’s Guides from Auteur Publishing
Features exercises, essay questions, discussion topics, and activities that help teachers work with students to create an engaging course in film study.
Action/Adventure Films
Rob McInnes
Teacher’s Guide: 008 238 pages / 12 illus. $5.00 wire 978-1-903663-15-8 Classroom Resource: 008 96 pages $0.00 wire 978-1-903663-16-5
Feminist Film Studies
Terri Murray
Teacher’s Guide only: 008 140 pages / 12 illus. $5.00 wire 978-1-903663-72-1
Alternatives to Hollywood
Sarah Perks, Isabelle Vanderschelden, and Andy Willis
Teacher’s Guide only: 008 160 pages / 12 illus. $5.00 wire 978-1-903663-25-7
Film and Television Textual Analysis
Keith McDonald
Teacher’s Guide: 008 96 pages / 12 illus. $5.00 wire 978-1-903663-53-0 Classroom Resource: 008 60 pages $0.00 wire 978-1-903663-54-7
Approaches to Pop Music
Cath Davies
Classroom Resource and Teacher’s Guide Combined: $0.00 wire 978-1-903663-71-4 008 100 pages / 20 illus.
The Horror Genre
Kate Domaille
Teacher’s Guide: 008 94 pages / 8 illus. $5.00 wire 978-1-903663-06-6 Classroom Resource: 008 40 pages $0.00 wire 978-1-903663-07-3
Children’s Comics
Wendy Helsby
Teacher’s Guide: 008 110 pages / 12 illus. $5.00 wire 978-1-903663-20-2 Classroom Resource: 008 80 pages $0.00 wire 978-1-903663-21-9
Teen Movies
Rob McInnes
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Comedy Films
Brian Dunbar
Teacher’s Guide: 008 120 pages / 12 illus. $5.00 wire 978-1-903663-13-4 Classroom Resource: 008 50 pages $0.00 wire 978-1-903663-14-1
Narrative in Film and TV
Eleanor Rehahn
Teacher’s Guide: 008 126 pages / 12 illus. $5.00 wire 978-1-903663-61-5 Classroom Resource: 008 50 pages $0.00 wire 978-1-903663-62-2
Early and Silent Cinema
Keith Withall
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Science Fiction Film
Elaine Scarratt
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Projecting Migration
Transcultural Documentary Practice
Edited by Alan Grossman and Áine O’Brien Migration is a major global issue, increasingly determining who we are and how we define ourselves. Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice is a groundbreaking book/dvd project that explores contemporary ethnographic narratives through film, photography, multimedia, and radio. The dvd contains media material from each essay, cross-referenced with the text, creating an interactive, multimedia study of migration. Audio and visual imagination is a crucial component of cultural identity, and this collection marks a major cross-media, interdisciplinary contribution.
$40.00 paper w/ dvd 978-1-905674-04-6 007 224 pages / 40 illus. nonfictions Wallflower Press
Cities in Transition
The Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis
Edited by Andrew Webber and Emma Wilson The city has been a modernist inspiration for silent classics such as Metropolis (1926) and contemporary films like The Matrix (1999). Cities in Transition is an ambitious collection of writings from film theorists, architects, and filmmakers discussing this complex yet enduring relationship and the impact of early cinema, digital technology, and changing urban geographies on representations of the city. Among the films discussed are Peeping Tom (1960); Performance (1970); Sans Soleil (1983); and Amores perros (2000).
$8.00 paper 978-1-905674-31-2 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-32-9 april 008 256 pages Wallflower Press
The Image and the Witness
Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture
Edited by Frances Guerin and Roger Hallas The Image and the Witness is an interdisciplinary collection of original essays concerning the ethical stakes of the image in our visually saturated age. It explores the role of the material image in bearing witness to historical events and the visual representation of witnesses to collective trauma. This unique collection debates post-traumatic memory, documentary ethics, embodied vision, and the recycling of images, and discusses works by Chris Marker, Errol Morris, Derek Jarman, Doris Salcedo, Gerhard Richter, and Boris Mikhailov.
$6.00 paper 978-1-905674-19-0 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-20-6 007 224 pages / 20 illus. nonfictions Wallflower Press
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A Family Affair
Cinema Calls Home
Edited by Murray Pomerance The family has been a central theme in movies since the earliest days of the medium. This new anthology brings the subject into sharp focus, collecting a range of multidisciplinary perspectives on the role of the family onscreen. Discussing a wide range of films—House of Strangers (1949); Mary Poppins (1964); Superstar (1987); The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); Brokeback Mountain (2005); and more—this study addresses not only the nature of family values in cinema but also the family nature of cinematic production in Hollywood. This volume provides a penetrating view of the oldest and most influential social institution as depicted on screen.
$8.00 paper 978-1-905674-55-8 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-56-5 april 008 256 pages Wallflower Press
Direct Cinema
Observational Documentary and the Politics of the Sixties
Dave Saunders Direct Cinema is the first major study of the pivotal “direct cinema” documentary movement of 1960s America. Using lightweight cameras and synchronised sound, filmmakers like Robert Drew, D.A. Pennebaker, and Frederick Wiseman intimately documented such events as John F. Kennedy’s bid for the White House (Primary, 1960), Bob Dylan’s 1965 British tour (Don’t Look Back, 1965), and the tune-in and drop-out ethos of hippy culture (Woodstock, 1970). This new volume provides a comprehensive account of these vastly influential yet politically underappreciated films and connects them with the greater artistic and political impulses of the sixties.
$6.00 paper 978-1-905674-15-2 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-16-9 007 224 pages / 20 illus. nonfictions Wallflower Press
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FILM CRITICISM Shakespeare on Film
Such Things as Dreams are Made Of
Carolyn Jess-Cooke Since the birth of Shakespearean cinema in 1899, there have been close to 500 film adaptations of the Bard’s work in which he has been taken to outer space, downtown Mumbai, and feudal Japan. Exploring this astonishing array from early cinema to the present, Shakespeare on Film analyzes Shakespearean cinema in four major contexts: performance, adaptation, film style, and popularization, interpreting his unique ability to penetrate cultures, mindsets, and languages across the world.
$0.00 paper 978-1-905674-14-5 007 144 pages / 10 illus. short cuts Wallflower Press
Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-first Century
Edited by Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray
“Genuinely new and illuminating.” —Peter S. Donaldson, MIT
John Mills and British Cinema
Masculinity, Identity and Nation
Gill Plain Although his film career extended from the early days of sound to the British New Wave and beyond, Sir John Mills is nonetheless remembered as the archetypal hero of the Second World War. Regarded as an English “everyman,” he came to represent a newly democratic masculine ideal. This penetrating study asks how was it possible for an actor to embody national identity. By exploring the cultural contexts in which Mills and the nation became synonymous, Gill Plain offers a new perspective on forty years of cinema and social change.
$0.00 paper 978-0-7486-2108-8 $85.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2107-1 006 256 pages / 31 illus. Edinburgh University Press
From Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet to Michael Radford’s Merchant of Venice and Peter Babakitis’ Henry V, this volume analyzes major and obscure productions, touching on advertisements, postcolonial reinventions, and mass media citations, arguing that Shakespeare is a magnet for debate over style, literary authority, nationality, ethnicity, and gender. Considering the Derry Film Initiative Hamlet, the New Zealand Maori Merchant of Venice, and the television documentary In Search of Shakespeare, this collection innovatively assesses the continuing relevance of Shakespeare.
$0.00 paper 0-7486-2351-5 $80.00 cloth 0-7486-2350-7 007 224 pages Edinburgh University Press
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The Unsilvered Screen
Surrealism on Film
Edited by Graeme Harper and Rob Stone Leading critics from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada, and Japan offer fresh, provocative views of canonical surrealist works from Luis Buñuel, Jan Svankmajer, and David Lynch. They also offer lively analyses of surrealist aspects of contemporary Japanese, Russian, and British cinema, Disney animation, digital cinema, and documentary, exploring the vibrant effect and considerable legacy of surrealism on film.
$5.00 paper 978-1-904764-86-1 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-87-8 006 256 pages Wallflower Press
Filmosophy
Daniel Frampton
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
“[An] elegant, deftly argued book... Essential.” —Choice
The Lord of the Rings
Popular Culture in Global Context
Edited by Ernest Mathijs
Foreword by Brian Sibley
Filmosophy is a provocative new manifesto for a radically philosophical way of understanding cinema. It coalesces twentieth-century ideas of film as thought (from Hugo Münsterberg to Gilles Deleuze) into a practical theory of “film-thinking,” arguing that film style conveys poetic ideas through a constant dramatic “intent” about the characters, spaces, and events of film. Discussing contemporary film-makers such as Béla Tarr and the Dardenne brothers, this timely contribution to the study of film and philosophy will provoke debate among audiences and filmmakers alike.
FILMOSOPHY® is a registered U.S. trademark owned by Valentin Stoilov (www.filmosophy.com) for educational services in the field of motion picture history theory and production. Mr. Stoilov is not the source or origin of this book and has not sponsored or endorsed it or its author.
$4.00 paper 978-1-904764-84-7 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-85-4 006 256 pages Wallflower Press
This volume brings together leading scholars in the fields of media and film studies to explore the various strategies and implications underlying the global presence of Lord of the Rings. Chapters address how the trilogy has been planned and received as a media business; how it was received by critics and fans; and how spin-offs, franchises, associated media, and indeed the text itself have been affected by its success and appeal.
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-82-3 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-83-0 006 224 pages Wallflower Press
Exploring Visual Culture
Definitions, Concepts, Contexts
Edited by Matthew Rampley An introduction to the study of visual culture, this book offers a view of ‘visual culture’ that includes images and other visual media and forms of expression, from architecture to fashion, design and the human body.
$.50 paper 978-0-7486-1845-3 006 224 pages Edinburgh University Press
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New in Paper
Sex and the Cinema
Tanya Krzywinska Sex and the Cinema traces the numerous factors and contexts — artistic, institutional, political, and socio-cultural — that have shaped the way that sex appears in film. Given that cinematic representations of sex have perhaps caused more controversy than any others, Krzywinska charts the cultural norms and contestations that are often diversely in play and explores forms and themes such as narrative, incest, romance, sado-masochism, and “real” sex. Films discussed include Don’t Look Now, Intolerance, The Blue Angel, Now, Voyager, Basic Instinct, Written on the Wind, Evil Dead II, Emmanuelle, A Taste of Honey, and The Night Porter.
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-73-1 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-74-8 006 224 pages / 16 illus. Wallflower Press
Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity
Narrative Time in National Contexts
David Martin-Jones
“[An] ambitious book. . . Recommended.” —Choice
Spectatorship
The Power of Looking On
Michele Aaron This book shows how cinema makes a spectacle of the everyday while turning the spectacular into something commonplace. It also muses on the consequences of our sharing in or witnessing the private or intimate acts of others and our enjoyment of events that often represent a gross break with legal and social mores.
$0.00 paper 978-1-905674-01-5 006 144 pages short cuts Wallflower Press
Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity challenges the traditional use of Deleuze’s philosophy to examine European art cinema. It explores how Deleuze can be used to analyse national identity across a range of different cinemas. Focusing on narrative time it combines a Deleuzean approach with a vast range of non-traditional material. The films discussed are contemporary and popular (either financial or cult successes), and include Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Terminator 3, Memento, Saving Private Ryan, Run Lola Run, Sliding Doors, Chaos and Peppermint Candy. Each film is examined in light of a major historical event—including 9/11, German reunification, and the Asian economic crisis—and the impact it has had on individual nations.
$4.50 paper 978-0-7486-3585-6 $85.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2244-3 008 256 pages 4 illus. Edinburgh University Press
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wallflower’s close-up series Close Up is an annual series devoted to the textual analysis of film and television.
Forthcoming
Close-Up 03
Series Edited by John Gibbs and Doug Pye
Close-Up 02
Movies and Tone / Reading Rohmer / Voices in Film
The second edition of Close-Up features pieces by Douglas Pye on how “tone” is a vital yet rarely used concept in film analysis; Jacob Leigh on the films of Eric Rohmer; and Susan Smith on the use of the human voice in narrative cinema.
$7.50 paper 978-1-905674-06-0 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-07-7 007 256 pages / 120 illus.
Weimar Cinema
Iris Luppa
Weimar Cinema examines three films of the postwar, stabilization, and prefascist period: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), People on Sunday (1929), and Kuhle Wampe (1932). Drawing on the ideas of Brecht, each chapter examines the way these films invite sophisticated readings through the use of distinct visual and narrative strategies.
The Police Series
Jonathan Bignell
The Police Series closely analyzes the mise-enscène of television programs from 1980 to 2003, including Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, NYPD Blue, Homicide: Life on the Street, and CSI.
Close-Up 01
To launch the series, Filmmakers’ Choices explores diverse areas of decision-making within film production; The Pop Song in Film offers detailed interpretations of moments in films where the pop song adopts a decisive storytelling role; Reading Buffy looks at the acclaimed television series through a close-reading approach more usually applied to films.
$5.00 / £14.50 paper 978-1-904764-57-1 $75.00 / £44.00 cloth 978-1-904764-66-3 006 256 pages / 40 illus.
Men’s Cinema
Stella Bruzzi
Men’s Cnema focuses on how film style conveys and articulates a sense of masculinity. It examines the use of mise-en-scène in classical cinema to emphasize the frequently repressed traumas of masculinity. The book then analyzes a selection of such contemporary “men’s” films as Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Raging Bull (1980), The Right Stuff (1983), and Gladiator (2000).
$9.50 paper 978-1-905674-77-0 $90.00 cloth 978-1-905674-78-7 may 008 256 pages / 40 illus.
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GENDER & FILM Sapphism on Screen
Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema
Lucille Cairns This book investigates mediations of lesbian desire in a variety of films (spanning the period (1936–2002) by male and female, French and Francophone directors. Films discussed include Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Quai des orfèvres, Louis Malle’s Milou en mai, Claude Chabrol’s La Cérémonie, André Téchiné’s Les Voleurs, and François Ozon’s Huit femmes. This study also includes analytical comparisons to Anglophone films.
$85.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2165-1 006 256 pages / 10 illus. Edinburgh University Press
Feminist Auteurs
Reading Women’s Films
Geetha Ramanathan Geetha Ramanathan examines a rich and diverse body of work that has received insufficient attention both in film studies and in feminist theory on film. Looking at individual films within the context of feminist film as a genre, Ramanathan examines works from diverse cultural traditions while paying close attention to what might be regarded as feminist in different cultural contexts. Films discussed include Vagabond, India Song, Bhaji on the Beach, Chocolat, and Daughters of the Dust.
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-69-4 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-70-0 007 224 pages / 12 illus. Wallflower Press
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FILM GENRES
New
Hollywood Science
Movies, Science, and the End of the World
Sidney Perkowitz
“An entertaining, maybe indispensable guide for film buffs everywhere.”—Booklist “A grand roundup of technical movie masterpieces . . . praising scientific accuracy (A Beautiful Mind) and exposing turkeys (Volcano).”—Los Angeles Magazine
Disaster Movies
The Cinema of Catastrophe Second Edition
Stephen Keane
“Throughout Keane’s writing is never too technical or marred with excessive film jargon but is both accessible and challenging, and his book will work in an undergraduate Film Studies course to compare and contrast specific movies from the last three decades.”—Film and History
In this entertaining book, Sidney Perkowitz discusses the portrayal of science in more than one hundred films, including scientific biographies and documentaries. Beginning with early films like Voyage to the Moon and Metropolis and concluding with more recent offerings like The Matrix, War of the Worlds, A Beautiful Mind, and An Inconvenient Truth, Perkowitz questions how much faith we can put into Hollywood’s depiction of scientists and their work; how accurately these films capture scientific fact and theory; whether cataclysms like our collision with a comet can actually happen; and to what extent these films influence public opinion about science and the future.
$4.95 / £14.95 cloth 978-0-231-14280-9 007 256 pages / 40 illus.
Stephen Keane’s history of the disaster genre offers a detailed analysis of films such as The Towering Inferno, Independence Day, Titanic, and The Day After Tomorrow. He looks at the ways in which disaster movies can be read in relation to both contextual considerations and the increasing commercial demands of contemporary Hollywood. In this second edition, he adds new material regarding cinematic representations of disaster in the wake of 9/11 and an analysis of disaster movies in light of recent natural disasters.
$0.00 paper 978-1-905674-03-9 006 144 pages short cuts Wallflower Press
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FILM GENRES
Romantic Comedy
Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre
Tamar Jeffers McDonald
“This volume crams everything from Doris Day to The 40 Year-Old Virgin. Each of its five broad catagories is examined over the lifespan of the genre and includes valuable case studies. Highly recommended.”—Empire
Crime Films
Investigating the Scene
Kirsten Moana Thompson
“Deals with the amazing variations on crime films down the ages. The gangster and detective type proliferate, and other aspects cover details of recent developments in the erotic thriller and film noir. The book is perceptively and intelligently written.”—Cinema Retro
Romantic Comedy offers an introduction to the analysis of a popular but overlooked film genre. The book provides an overview of Hollywood’s romantic comedy conventions, examining iconography, narrative patterns, and ideology. Chapters discuss important subgroupings within the genre: screwball sex comedy and the radical romantic comedy of the 1970s. A final chapter traces the lasting influence of these earlier forms within current romantic comedies. Films include: Pillow Talk (1959), Annie Hall (1977), and You’ve Got Mail (1998).
$0.00 paper 978-1-905674-02-2 007 144 pages short cuts Wallflower Press
Ever since Edwin S. Porter’s Great Train Robbery in 1903, audiences have been fascinated by films about crime and the world as seen from both sides of the law. Crime Films delves into recent developments in erotic thrillers like Basic Instinct (1992) and neo-noirs like Body Heat (1981) and LA Confidential (1997), and includes close readings of enduring crime films, from The Silence of the Lambs (1991) to Seven (1995) as well as such television series as Hill Street Blues, Homicide, and CSI.
$0.00 paper 978-1-905674-13-8 007 144 pages / 10 illus. short cuts Wallflower Press
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New
Film Noir
From Berlin to Sin City
Mark Bould This compelling volume explores the murky world of a genre responsible for many of film’s most enduring images. Mark Bould discusses problems of definition and the often ambiguous nature of film noir and considers modern films that could be called neo-noir. Iconic and enduring, film noir attracted great stars (Bogart, Bacall, Mitchum, and Lancaster), and many of the best directors of the era (Wilder, Lang, Preminger, Hawks, Siodmak, and Welles). This book is an indispensable guide to this popular genre.
$0.00 paper 978-1-904764-50-2 006 144 pages / 12 illus. short cuts Wallflower Press
Films of Fact
A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television
Timothy Boon Britain has long been recognized for its contribution to documentary cinema, yet its tradition of acclaimed scientific and medical documentaries remains largely unrecognized in the literature on nonfiction film. Films of Fact is the first in-depth history of the genre, which began with amateur hobbyists in the early twentieth century, played a key role in postwar health programs, and became a treasured part of popular culture with BBC2’s Horizon and the programming of Channel 4. Films of Fact is a landmark text on a rarely discussed element of British popular culture.
$8.00 paper 978-1-905674-37-4 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-38-1 007 224 pages nonfictions Wallflower Press
Teen Movies
American Youth on Screen
Timothy Shary Timothy Shary looks at the development of the teen movie — the rebellion, the romance, the sex, and the horror — up to contemporary portrayals of ever-changing youth. Films studied include Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass, Carrie, The Breakfast Club, and American Pie.
$0.00 paper 978-1-904764-49-6 006 144 pages 12 illus. short cuts Wallflower Press
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FILM GENRES
Forthcoming
The American Western
Stephen McVeigh
“McVeigh’s work lays claim to an impressive, interdisciplinary field of study. It should be read, taught, and appreciated.”—Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming
Crossing New Europe
Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie
Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli This comprehensive study of the European road cinema examines such crucial issues as individual and national identity crises and phenomena such as displacement, diaspora, exile, migration, nomadism, and tourism in postmodern, post-Berlin Wall Europe. Drawing on the work of Said, Hall, Shields, Urry, Bauman, Deleuze and Guattari, and other critical theorists, Crossing New Europe adopts a broad interpretation of “Europe” and discusses directors and films who have long been associated with the road movie, such as Wim Wenders (Alice in the Cities, Lisbon Story) and Aki Kaurismäki (Leningrad Cowboys Go America! ), and other more recent contributions such as Run Lola Run, Dear Diary, and The Last Resort.
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-67-0 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-68-7 006 224 pages / 12 illus. Wallflower Press
This wide-ranging book illuminates the importance of the Western in American history, exploring the interconnections between the Western in both literature and film in the twentieth century. Structured chronologically, McVeigh traces the evolution of the Western as a uniquely American form. He argues that America’s frontier past was quickly transformed into a set of symbols and myths, an American metanarrative that came to underpin much of the “American century.” He details how and why this process occurred, the form and function of Western myths and symbols, the evolution of this mythology, and its subversions and reconstructions throughout twentieth-century American history.
$6.00 paper 978-0-7486-2141-5 $85.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2140-8 september 008 256 pages Edinburgh University Press
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Forthcoming
Film Genre
Hollywood and Beyond
Barry Langford Barry Langford shows how notions of genre help shape the ways that filmmakers, critics and audiences view films and how the often complex scholarly debates around genre reflect important differences in the ways cinema is understood in relation to its social and historical contexts. The book encourages students to interrogate and broaden received ideas about genre.
$5.00 paper 978-0-7486-1903-0 $85.00 cloth 978-0-7486-1902-3 006 320 pages Edinburgh University Press
Studying Videogames
Julian McDougall and Wayne O’Brien Studying Videogames is the first book to look at videogames as media texts. Written specifically for advanced level/undergraduate students it covers a broad range of games, industry contexts, and research findings. The book challenges conventional mediaanalysis approaches; sets out the history, present, and future of games; and interrogates claims about their “social effects.” Featuring student activities, interviews with key players in the industry, and an extended case study of the Grand Theft Auto cycle, Studying Videogames seriously engages with this powerful media.
$9.50 paper 978-1-903663-84-4 $90.00 cloth 978-1-903663-85-1 june 008 192 pages / 12 illus. Auteur Publishing
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CULTOGRAPHIES by WALLFLOWER PRESS
New New
This Is Spinal Tap
Ethan de Seife A documentary, a mockumentary, indeed a rockumentary—Rob Reiner’s phony road movie following the exploits of a fictitional heavy metal band has long been celebrated as a comedy landmark. This book is the first attempt to provide a sustained critical appraisal of the film’s success, addressing general cinephiles and devoted Tapheads alike. The study considers the film within the context of cult cinema, real and mock documentaries, Hollywood comedies and musicals, and the history of rock music. This detailed stylistic and comic analysis offers new insights into the ardent Cult of Tap.
$15.00 paper 978-1-905674-49-7 007 144 pages cultographies Wallflower Press
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Jeffrey Weinstock In a surprisingly short period of time, The Rocky Horror Picture Show grew from a fringe musical into a celebrated cinematic experience notorious for its midnight features and outrageous audience participation. This study tells the extraordinary trajectory of the film from its initial reception to its eventual cult status. Focusing on the film’s nonconformist sexual politics and glam-rock attitude, this volume explores Rocky Horror’s emphasis on the theatrical body (tattooed, cross-gendered, and flamboyant), and its defiant queering of cinema history.
$15.00 paper 978-1-905674-50-3 007 144 pages cultographies Wallflower Press
New
Donnie Darko
Geoff King With its gothic tale of a troubled teen haunted by visions of a figure in a rabbit suit, Donnie Darko was one of the first cult movie phenomena of the twenty-first century and gripped the imagination of Gen X teenagers across the world. The film also made debut director Richard Kelly a hot property in Hollywood before he reached his thirtieth birthday. This study narrates the film’s evolution from a box-office curiosity to a word-of-mouth sensation, culminating in the release of the recent director’s cut of the film, and includes discussion of fans’ reactions to the film’s enigmatic conclusion.
$15.00 paper 978-1-905674-51-0 007 144 pages cultographies Wallflower Press
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FILM REFERENCE
New
Researcher’s Guide to British Cinemagazines
Edited by Emily Crosby and Linda Kaye This comprehensive guide tells the history of the British magazine film for the first time, detailing its use for entertainment, information, and propaganda. It also explores industrial concerns through such series as This Week in Britain, London Line, and Commonwealth Teleview.
$7.50 paper 978-0-901299-78-9 008 200 pages / 25 illus. Wallflower Press, Distributor of the British Universities Film & Video Council
TCM International Film Guide 2008
The Definitive Annual Review of World Cinema
Edited by Ian Haydn Smith
“The day I was hired as a film critic, I went to the bookstore and came home with a copy of the International Film Guide, and the current edition has been on my shelf ever since. This annual volume is unique and invaluable.”—Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and presenter of Ebert & Roeper at the Movies
Researcher’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film, Television, and Radio
Edited by Luke McKernan, Eve-Marie Oesterlan, and Olwen Terris This guide brings together compact histories of Shakespeare across different media and offers descriptions of archives and their use.
$7.50 paper 978-0-901299-76-6 august 008 250 pages / 25 illus. Wallflower Press, Distributor of the British Universities Film & Video Council
First published in 1963, the International Film Guide enjoys an unrivalled reputation as the most authoritative and trusted resource on world cinema. Now relaunched by Wallflower Press, the 2008 (44th) edition will cover the films and festivals of 2006 and 2007 in a “World Survey” section that encompasses the output of 110 countries. It includes directors of the year; a world box office survey; annual top 10 charts; a guide to film festivals; award reports and details; The Global Directory; and contact details for film archives, bookstores, magazines, and additional businesses in the industry.
$9.95 paper 978-1-905674-61-9 008 440 pages / 200 illus.
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FILM REFERENCE Moving Image Knowledge and Access
The BUFVC Handbook
Edited by Luke McKernan In its fourth edition, this handbook includes a directory of organizations and resources associated with education, film and video, and the media, and it features articles on issues such as online delivery of moving images and copyright and a host of useful information on film and video formats, digital media, and media legislation.
$40.00 paper 978-0-901299-77-2 007 220 pages / 20 illus. Wallflower Press, Distributor of the British Universities Film & Video Council
The Researcher’s Guide
7th Edition
Sergio Angelini Listing over 700 collections in the UK, this essential volume is recognized as the researcher’s “bible.” Now pocket-sized, it is designed to integrate with the Researcher’s Guide Online Web site.
$45.00 paper 978-901299-76-5 007 242 pages / 45 illus. Wallflower Press, Distributor of the British Universities Film & Video Council
New
Sequences
Contemporary Chronophotography and Experimental Digital Art
Edited by Paul St. George This volume explores a form of contemporary art that uses sequences of images to explore ideas of space, time, movement, and duration. “Chronophotographers” first explored these ideas at the end of the nineteenth century. At the beginning of the twenty-first, artists have found that sequences offer new opportunities for exploring the aesthetics at the intersection of time and space. This book contains a number of illustrated essays by international critics and theorists and discusses the work of a wide range of artists engaged in contemporary chronophotography.
$4.50 paper 978-1-905674-76-3 april 008 256 pages imagetime Wallflower Press
Film Curatorship
Archives, Museums, and the Digital Marketplace
Edited by Paolo Cherchi Usai, David Francis, Alexander Horwath, and Michael Loebenstein Film Curatorship offers neither a scholarly analysis nor a definitive answer to aesthetic as well as technological, economic, and political issues. The editors of this volume share their concerns, visions, and strategies in order to foster an open debate on the relationship of film to other forms of the moving image, as well as its presentation and preservation.
$.50 paper 978-3-901644-24-5 june 008 180 pages Wallflower Press, Distributor for the Austrian Film Museum
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INTERNATIONAL FILM
New
Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films
Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility
Rey Chow
“[Chow] captivates us with her challenging and refreshing arguments. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal
China on Screen
Cinema and Nation
Chris J. Berry and Mary Farquhar
“A standard reference for students of cinema studies...eminently adoptable for the clasroom.” —Nations & Nationalism
What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining specific to a particular culture in transition? Rey Chow explores these questions through nine contemporary Chinese directors (Chen Kaige, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou, Ann Hui, Peter Chan, Wayne Wang, Ang Lee, Li Yang, and Tsai Ming-liang) whose accomplishments have become historic events in world cinema. By naming these films sentimental fabulations—screen artifacts of cultural becoming with irreducible aesthetic, conceptual, and speculative logics of their own—Chow presents Chinese cinema first and foremost as an invitation to the pleasures and challenges of critical thinking.
$.50 / £1.00 paper 978-0-231-13333-3 $7.50 / £4.50 cloth 978-0-231-13332-6 007 288 pages film and culture series
Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of directors and actors, including Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li, Wong Kar-wai, and Ang Lee. Among the issues and themes covered are the tension between operatic and realist modes, male and female star images, transnational production and circulation of Chinese films, the image of the good foreigner—all related to different ways of imagining nation.
$6.00 / £17.00 paper 978-0-231-13707-2 $67.50 cloth 978-0-231-13706-5 006 336 pages film and culture series
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INTERNATIONAL FILM
New
Asian Cinemas
A Reader and Guide
Edited by Dimitris Eleftheriotis and Gary Needham This guide refuses to cast Asian cinema as a gallery of exotic and foreign curiosities. It places “unfamiliar” case studies within the context of “familiar” areas of critical discourse to investigate the limitations of western theoretical models and paradigms. Case studies include Hong Kong and Turkish cinema, Hindi melodramas, Godzilla films, Taiwanese directors, Fifth Generation Chinese cinema, and the works of Ozu and Bruce Lee.
$0.00 paper 978-0-7486-1777-7 $100.00 cloth 978-0-7486-1776-0 006 488 pages Edinburgh University Press
Representing Atrocity in Taiwan
The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film
Sylvia Li-chun Lin In 1945, Taiwan was placed under the administrative control of the Republic of China, and after two years, accusations of corruption and a failing economy sparked a local protest that was brutally quashed by the Kuomintang government. The February Twenty-Eighth (or 2/28) Incident led to four decades of martial law that became known as the White Terror. During this period, talk of 2/28 was forbidden and all dissent violently suppressed, but since the lifting of martial law in 1987, this long-buried history has been revisited through commemoration and narrative, cinema, and remembrance. Sylvia Li-chun Lin conducts a close analysis of the political, narrative, and ideological structures involved in the fictional and cinematic representations of the 2/28 Incident and White Terror. She assesses the role of individual and collective memory and institutionalized forgetting, while underscoring the dangers of re-creating a historical past and the risks of trivialization. She also compares her findings with scholarly works on the Holocaust and the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Japan, questioning the politics of forming public and personal memories and the political teleology of “closure.”
$40.00 / £.50 cloth 978-0-231-14360-8 007 240 pages
The Cinema of Prayoga
Indian Experimental Film and Video 1913–2006
Edited by Brad Butler and Karen Mirza NO.W.HERE LAB has reseached a rich vein of visual arts–based work from the early twentieth century onward that, despite the huge popularity of Indian cinema, remains relatively unknown. This project traces a history of powerful and personal filmmaking outside of the industrialized system.
$4.00 paper 978-0-955388-10-1 007 144 pages
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global chinese culture
Forthcoming
Chávez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
A Case Study of Politics and the Media
Rod Stoneman The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is a powerful film about the charismatic and controversial Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. It charts the attempt to overthrow him in April 2002 and provides an eyewitness account of his extraordinary return to power some forty-eight hours later. This book, which includes a DVD of this electrifying documentary, not only sheds light on contemporary politics in Latin America but also focuses on important issues in documentary filmmaking.
$9.50 paper plus DVD 978-1-905674-74-9 july 008 192 pages / 12 illus. nonfictions Wallflower Press
The Cinematic Tango
Contemporary Argentine Film
Tamara L. Falicov The Cinematic Tango explores the cultural politics of over sixty years of filmmaking in Argentina. From the 1940s when film was a successful studio product to the 1980s post-dictatorship period when national cinema was utilized as a public relations tool, Tamara L. Falicov explores how national culture on film has been shaped, articulated, and debated.
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-92-2 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-93-9 006 224 pages Wallflower Press
Remapping World Cinema
Identity, Culture and Politics in Film
Edited by Stephanie Dennison and Song Hwee Lim Remapping World Cinema explores many of the key critical and theoretical approaches and debates, including race, stardom, and postcolonialism, as well as national cinemas’ relationship with Hollywood. Covering a broad range of films, the authors examine the cinemas of Africa, East Asia, India, and Latin, Central, and South America as well as the various territories of Europe.
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-62-5 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-63-2 006 224 pages Wallflower Press
A Cinema of Contradiction
Spanish Film in the 1960s
Sally Faulkner A Cinema of Contradiction, the first book to focus in depth on the 1960s in Spain, analyzes key artistic movements and six films that reflected and interpreted transformations in Spanish cinema and society.
$75.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2160-6 006 224 pages Edinburgh University Press
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Each volume presents twenty-four concise and insightful essays that consider one significant film from the region
The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East
Edited by Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Preface by Abbas Kiarostami
The Cinema of Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Edited by Birgit Beumers
Preface by Sergei Bodrov
The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East explores the established film cultures of Turkey, Egypt, and Israel, and the nascent cinemas of Palestine and Syria. Selected films include Cairo Station (Egypt, 1958), The Runner (Iran, 1989), Once Upon a Time, Beriut (Lebanon, 1994), Ten (Iran, 2002), and Uzak (Turkey, 2003).
$9.50 paper 978-1-905674-10-7 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-11-4 007 288 pages / 24 illus.
This volume offers insight into the development of Soviet film from a propaganda tool to a means of entertainment in the Stalin era; the rise of “dissident” arthouse cinema in the 1960s to the films of the glasnost era; and recent Russian blockbusters. Films discussed include Strike (1925), Earth (1930), Ivan’s Childhood (1962), Mother and Son (1997), and Brother (1997).
$9.50 paper 978-1904764-98-34 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-99-1 006 288 pages
The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand
Edited by Geoff Mayer and Keith Beattie
Preface by John Hughes
The Cinema of the Balkans
Edited by Dina Iordanova
Preface by Dusan Makavejev
This book celebrates Australia and New Zealand’s feature films as well as key documentaries, shorts and independent films. Films and directors discussed include: The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir, 1982), The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993), Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001) and Rabbit Proof Fence (Philip Noyce, 2002).
$9.50 paper 978-1-904764-96-0 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-97-7 006 288 pages
These films represent the rich and diverse culture of the Balkans and reveal the stylistic and thematic affinities of a region often perceived as a disconnected cultural space. Films include: Stella (Greece, 1955), Goat’s Horn (Bulgaria, 1972), When I Am Dead and Pale (Yugoslavia, 1969), The Red Horse (Yugoslavia, 1984), Stone Wedding (Romania, 1971), and Walter Defends Sarajevo (Yugoslavia, 1972).
$9.50 paper 978-1-904764-80-9 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-81-6 006 288 pages
The Cinema of Canada
Edited by Jerry White
Preface by Atom Egoyan
$7.50 paper 978-1-904764-60-1 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-61-8 006 288 pages / 24 illus.
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Vision On
Film, Television, and the Arts in Britain
John Wyver Vision On sheds light on one of British television’s most innovative contributions to broadcasting—its coverage of the arts, chronicling the long history of collaboration between broadcasters and the Arts Council. The arts were central to many of the earliest public broadcasting documentaries, and by the 1980s Channel 4 and the Arts Council had redefined the relationship of the arts and the media by commissioning exclusive and innovative films. John Wyver illuminates the vanguard role the arts have played in the history of British public broadcasting and locates the place of arts broadcasting in today’s multichannel, multi-media world.
$8.00 paper 978-1-905674-39-8 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-40-4 007 224 pages nonfictions Wallflower Press
Fires Were Started
British Cinema and Thatcherism Second Edition
Edited by Lester Friedman This book offers a provocative analysis of the responses of British film to the policies and political ideology of the conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher, and it represents an original and stimulating contribution to our knowledge of British cinema. This second edition includes revised and updated contributions from some of the leading scholars of British cinema, including Thomas Elsaesser, Peter Wollen, and Manthia Diawara, and discusses prominent filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg, and Stephen Frears. Films discussed include Distant Voices, Still Lives; My Beautiful Launderette; Chariots of Fire; and Drowning by Numbers.
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-71-7 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-72-4 006 256 pages Wallflower Press
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Forthcoming Forthcoming
The Media in Scotland
Neil Blain and David Hutchison This book brings together academics, writers, and politicians to explore the range and nature of the media in Scotland. It includes chapters on the separate histories of the press, broadcasting, and cinema; the representation and construction of Scotland; the contemporary communications environment; and the languages used in the media. Other chapters consider television drama, soap opera, broadcast comedy, gender, the media and politics, race and ethnicity, gender, popular music, sports, and new technologies, the place of Gaelic, and current issues in screen fiction.
$.50 paper 978-0-7486-2800-1 $95.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2799-8 july 008 320 pages Edinburgh University Press
Contemporary British Cinema
From Heritage to Horror
James Leggott Contemporary British Cinema: From Heritage to Horror offers a detailed analysis of British film culture from 1997 to the present. Using a wide range of films as case studies—from Love Actually (2003) and The Queen (2006) to Dirty Pretty Things (2002) and Hot Fuzz (2007)—the book examines the ways in which recent British filmmaking might be regarded as distinctive, relevant, and successful. Ongoing questions about the state of the film industry and the significance of particular genres (such as the romantic comedy, the heritage drama, and the horror film) are placed within wider debates of national cinema.
$.00 paper 978-1-905674-71-8 july 008 144 pages / 12 illus. short cuts Wallflower Press
Contemporary World Cinema
Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and South Asia
Shohini Chaudhuri Highlighting transnational and cross-cultural structures, influences and themes, this book offers case studies of Scandinavian, Iranian, Hong Kong, and Indian cinema in addition to close readings of twelve landmark films, including Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen, Samira Makhmalbaf’s The Apple, and Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood For Love.
$5.00 paper 978-0-7486-1799-9 $75.00 cloth 978-0-7486-1798-2 006 200 pages Edinburgh University Press
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The French New Wave
A New Look
Naomi Greene The French New Wave was perhaps the biggest—and briefest—explosion in the history of world cinema, with over one hundred French directors shooting debut features between 1958 and 1964. Its aftershocks are still being felt today. This volume begins by tracing the social and cultural changes of postwar France that gave birth to the New Wave, then examines in detail the careers of artists like Alain Renais and Jean-Luc Godard.
$0.00 paper 978-1-905674-12-1 007 144 pages / 10 illus. short cuts Wallflower Press
German Expressionist Cinema
The World of Light and Shadow
Ian Roberts Before Hollywood’s golden age, German expressionist film was arguably the most important cinematic movement in the medium’s history. These “symphonies of . . . iridescent movement” of Weimar cinema provide some of cinema’s most iconic images. Its vivid contrasts and dark spaces constitute a major influence on Hollywood classics such as Citizen Kane (1941) and Sunset Blvd. (1950). This volume offers insights into the technical and thematic developments of the Weimar film, covering classics such as The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920), Nosferatu (1922), and Asphalt (1929).
$.00 paper 978-1-905674-60-2 june 008 144 pages short cuts Wallflower Press
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Reading the French New Wave
Critics, Writers, and Art Cinema in France
Dorota Ostrowska French New Wave directors such as JeanLuc Godard and Alain Resnais permanently shifted cinema’s aesthetic horizons by incorporating the narrative complexities of emerging modernist literature. This volume is the first title to comprehensively analyze the link between the French New Wave and the New Novel.
$8.00 paper 978-1-905674-57-2 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-58-9 008 256 pages Wallflower Press
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Forthcoming
Widescreen
Watching. Real. People. Elsewhere.
Mark Cousins Traveling to Britain, Europe, Iran, India, and Mexico, Mark Cousins charts the social trends and aesthetic implications of modern cinema’s major new developments: Asian filmmaking’s rise in popularity; the breakthrough of documentaries; digitization and DVD and their role in reviving film history and revolutionizing film projection; the shift toward the real and the visually grainy; and the triumph of animation, which has become more popular than at any time since Disney. This volume constitutes a perceptive and timely account of the creative dynamics of contemporary global cinema.
$5.00 paper 978-1-905674-62-6 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-79-4 july 008 224 pages / 16 illus. Wallflower Press
Talking Movies
Contemporary World Filmmakers in Interview
Jason Wood
Preface by Geoff Andrew
Jason Wood has collected interviews with directors whose work has defined how images are processed and appreciated by modern audiences. These pioneers frankly discuss their craft and the social, political, and technological forces that inform it: Laurent Cantet, Robert Guédiguian, and Bertrand Tavernier (France); David Gordon Green, Hal Hartley, and Richard Linklater (USA); Alejandro González Iñárritu and Carlos Reygadas (Mexico); Stephen Frears and Andrew Kötting (UK); Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey); Atom Egoyan (Canada); Suzanne Bier (Denmark); Tran Anh Hung (Vietnam); Samira Makhmalbaf (Iran); Elia Suleiman (Palestine); and Lucrecia Martel (Argentina).
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-90-8 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-91-5 006 224 pages Wallflower Press
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New New
The Impossible David Lynch
Todd McGowan
“An intellectually poignant, theoretically sophisticated, and erudite presentation of David Lynch’s films.”—Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich
Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony
Richard Allen
“Richard Allen is without doubt the only theoretician of the cinema today about whom one can say unequivocally that he knows Hitchcock’s films as well as the creator himself. He has also found, with ‘romantic irony,’ one of the best possible terms for making Hitchcock’s singular genius shine.”—Raymond Bellour, film critic and theoretician
Todd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch’s groundbreaking oeuvre. Considering the filmmaker’s entire career, McGowan examines Lynch’s play with fantasy and traces the political, cultural, and existential impact of his unique style. Each chapter discusses the idea of impossibility in one of Lynch’s films, including the critically acclaimed Blue Velvet and The Elephant Man; the densely plotted Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive; the cult favorite Eraserhead; and the commercially unsuccessful Dune. McGowan engages with theorists from the “golden age” of film studies (Christian Metz, Laura Mulvey, and Jean-Louis Baudry) and with the writings of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Hegel. By using Lynch’s weirdness as a point of departure, McGowan adds a new dimension to the field of auteur studies and reveals Lynch to be the source of a new and radical conception of fantasy.
$5.50 / £15.00 paper 978-0-231-13955-7 $7.50 / £4.50 cloth 978-0-231-13954-0 007 280 pages film and culture series
In a new interpretation of the director’s work, Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance and to forge a distinctive worldview—the amoral outlook of the romantic ironist or aesthete. He describes in detail how Hitchcock’s characteristic tone is achieved through a titillating combination of suspense and black humor that subverts the moral framework of the romantic thriller, and a meticulous approach to visual style that articulates the lure of human perversity even as the ideal of romance is being deliriously affirmed.
$4.50 / £14.50 paper 978-0-231-13575-7 $74.50 / £44.00 cloth 978-0-231-13574-0 007 328 pages film and culture series
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New New
Ingmar Bergman Revisited
Performance, Cinema, and the Arts
Edited by Maaret Koskinen
Foreward by Liv Ullman
Building Bridges
The Cinema of Jean Rouch
Edited by Joram ten Brink
Preface by Michael Renov
Building Bridges is the first title to fully explore the work and legacy of French documentary maker Jean Rouch. Comfortable in front of the camera as well as behind it, Rouch made numerous renowned sociological films about French and francophone African culture. His playful documentaries also make him the spiritual ancestor of the filmmakers Nick Broomfield and Michael Moore. This study contains more than twenty new essays from an international cast of filmmakers, film critics, academics, and actors discussing Rouch’s massive contribution to ethnographic filmmaking, including films such as Les Maitres fous (1955), Le Pyramide humaine (1961), and Chronique d’un été (1961).
$9.50 paper 978-1-905674-47-3 $90.00 cloth 978-1-905674-48-0 007 288 pages nonfictions Wallflower Press
Ingmar Bergman Revisited is a collection of new essays on the legacy of one of cinema’s most towering figures. Moving beyond simple auteurist readings of Bergman as a cinematic artist, these writings evaluate the theatrical and literary sides of Bergman’s work up to his last film, Saraband (2003). Several essays incorporate research from Bergman’s own personal archive. Among the subjects discussed are Bergman’s stage adaptations of Shakespeare, his fascination with still photography and issues of identity, and the influence of philosophy and psychology on his work.
$8.00 paper 978-1-905674-33-6 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-34-3 007 256 pages Wallflower Press
Two Films by Owen Land
Owen Land
Edited by Mark Webber
Two Films by Owen Land features the illustrated scripts to the films Wide Angle Saxon and On the Marriage Broker Joke. It also includes detailed footnotes that untangle the films’ elaborate web of references by Owen Land (formerly known as George Landow), one of the most original and celebrated American filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s.
$15.00 paper 978-0-954856-91-5 006 136 pages / 75 illus. Wallflower Press, Distributor for Lux’
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The Cinema of John Sayles
Lone Star
Mark Bould John Sayles is an inspiration to independent filmmakers in America and beyond as living proof that directors can make politically engaged work outside the Hollywood mainstream. Sayles’s films from the 1980s were the counterpunch to the special effects and blockbuster aesthetics of the Star Wars and Spielberg era. The Cinema of John Sayles closely follows the director’s career with analysis of all his films, including Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980); The Brother from Another Planet (1984); Matewan (1987); and Sunshine State (2003).
$5.00 paper 978-1-905674-27-5 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-28-2 008 224 pages
The Cinema of Neil Jordan
Dark Carnival
Carole Zucker
Preface by Stephen Rea
Neil Jordan’s diverse work has spanned gothic horror (The Company of Wolves, 1984; Interview With the Vampire, 1994), Irish history (Michael Collins, 1996), literary adaptation (The End of the Affair, 1999), and sexual identity (The Crying Game, 1992; Breakfast on Pluto, 2005), all the while retaining a distinctive flair for fantasy and the carnivalesque. The Cinema of Neil Jordan discusses his entire output as part of the first comprehensive study of this leading Irish director, looking beyond ideological and national concerns and viewing his films through the prism of Celtic folklore, fairy tales, gothicism, romanticism, and postmodernism.
$5.00 paper 978-1-905674-41-1 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-42-8 008 224 pages
The Cinema of Todd Haynes
All That Heaven Allows
Edited by James Morrison
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-77-9 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-78-6 006 224 pages
The Cinema of Ang Lee
The Other Side of the Screen
Whitney Crothers Dilley
$6.00 paper 978-1-905674-08-4 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-09-1 007 224 pages / 20 illus.
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ˇ The Cinema of Jan Svankmajer
Dark Alchemy
Edited by Peter Hames ˇ The Cinema of Jan Svankmajer explores the legacy of this legendary Czech surrealist filmmaker, a key influence on such directors as Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton and one of the greatest animators in cinema history. This updated second edition—still ˇ the only full-length study of Svankmajer’s work—features contributions from scholars and colleagues within the Czech surrealist movement as well as a new chapter on ˇ Svankmajer’s feature films and an extended interview with the director himself.
$5.00 paper 978-1-905674-45-9 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-46-6 008 224 pages
The Cinema of Lars von Trier
Authenticity and Artifice
Caroline Bainbridge Lars von Trier is one of the most controversial figures of contemporary European cinema. This volume analyzes the themes and motifs of the director’s work and the changes he has brought to modern film. Ever since he founded the back-to-basics Dogme philosophy of filmmaking in 1995, von Trier’s name has been tied to taboobreaking cinema. He consistently courts media controversy through films such as The Idiots (1998), with its unsimulated sex and nonconformist politics. This volume presents von Trier as one of the most daring cinematic exponents of postmodern politics and satire.
$5.00 paper 978-1-905674-43-5 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-44-2 008 224 pages
The Cinema of Terrence Malick
Poetic Visions of America 2nd edition
Edited by Hannah Patterson
$6.00 paper 978-1-905674-25-1 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-26-8 007 224 pages / 20 illus.
The Cinema of Werner Herzog
Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth
Brad Prager
$6.00 paper 978-1-905674-17-6 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-18-3 007 224 pages / 20 illus.
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The Cinema of David Cronenberg
From Baron of Blood to Cultural Hero
Ernest Mathijs David Cronenberg has become one of North America’s most respected movie directors. Since the early seventies, the soft-spoken Baron of Blood has attracted widespread controversy with a steady stream of shock—sex crazed parasites in Shivers (1975), exploding heads in Scanners (1981), revolutionary flesh technology in Videodrome (1983), mutating bugs in The Fly (1986), car-crash scars in Crash (1996), and psychopathic bursts of gun violence in A History of Violence (2005). This book provides an overview of Cronenberg’s films in light of their international reception.
$5.00 paper 978-1-905674-65-7 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-66-4 august 008 240 pages
The Cinema of Sally Potter
The Poetics of Performance
Sophie Mayer Sally Potter is known for her award-winning films Thriller (1979), Orlando (1992), The Tango Lesson (1997), and YES (2004). These films are widely taught and theoretically valued for their poetic vision and incisive formulations of identities in flux. Potter’s authorship comprises a fluid movement between director, screenwriter, composer, and performer. Central to this study is the politically radical potential in Potter’s interaction with the live spectator. As Orlando’s gaze engages the viewer, this book engages cinema in terms of performance studies, poetics, and feminist philosophy.
$5.00 paper 978-1-905674-67-1 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-68-8 august 008 224 pages
The Cinema of Steven Spielberg
Empire of Light
Nigel Morris
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-88-5 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-8942 006 224 pages
The Cinema of Roman Polanski
Dark Spaces of the World
Edited by John Orr and Elzbieta Ostrowska
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-75-5 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-76-2 006 224 pages
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Forthcoming Forthcoming
Media in the Digital Age
John V. Pavlik
“This book offers a contemporary portrait of digital media in a treatment where big ideas are portals for the changing vessels of new media and draws on historical precedent as well as the instant lessons of Web 2.0—and beyond.” —Everette E. Dennis, Fordham Graduate School of Business
On Screenwriting
Freddie Gaffney Writers have been publishing screenwriting books for over half a century now, full of “insider tips” on how to make it big in Hollywood. Titles suggest screenwriting is an art, a craft, a skill, a business, a talent, a knack, or most simply, the ability to tell stories. It is, of course, all of these. What these books seldom do is take a complete novice through the steps of learning and understanding creative writing, be it for the Hollywood feature film or for the college video production. That is what On Screenwriting sets out to do. This volume is a practical manual that engages with the theory of the constructional process. Freddie Gaffney—lecturer and screenwriter—proffers a set of tools that makes the process more effective and the finished article more successfully executed.
$4.50 paper 978-1-903663-77-6 $80.00 cloth 978-1-903663-83-7 june 008 156 pages / 12 illus. Auteur Publishing
Digital technologies have fundamentally altered the nature and function of media in our society. Blogs, podcasting, and other forms of internet-based reporting have reinvented age-old practices of public communication, at times circumventing traditional media and challenging its privileged role as gatekeepers of news and entertainment. Some critics believe these technologies keep the public involved in an informed discourse on matters of public importance, but it isn’t clear this is happening on a large scale. Propaganda disguised as news is flourishing, and though interaction with the digital domain teaches children valuable skills, it can also expose them to grave risks. In this book John V. Pavlik critically examines our current digital innovations and their positive and negative implications.
$4.50 / £14.50 paper 978-0-231-14209-0 $74.50 / £44.00 cloth 978-0-231-14208-3 may 008 336 pages
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Dekalog 01: On The Five Obstructions
Edited by Mette Hjort Released in 2003, Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth’s agonisitic film is one of the most intriguing and significant cinematic works of recent times. This first issue in the Dekalog series, the new home for serious film criticism, brings together writers from diverse disciplinary and national backgrounds to present a case for seeing The Five Obstructions as a philosophically compelling film that tests our understanding of key psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues: the role of others in facilitating self-understanding; creativity and its relation to constraint; individual style as an artistic problem; filmmaking as a form of play; and the ethical limitations of aestheticism.
$0.00 paper 978-1-905674-75-6 008 160 pages dekalog Wallflower Press
Performing Illusions
Cinema, Special Effects, and the Virtual Actor
Dan North The camera supposedly never lies, yet film’s ability to frame, cut, and reconstruct all that passes before its lens has made cinema the most powerful medium of visual illusion. This volume examines film’s creative history of special effects and trickery, encompassing everything from George Méliès’s first trick films to modern CGI, and discussing films such as Spider-Man (2002) and the King Kong films (1933 and 2006). Evaluating the movement toward the use of computergenerated “synthespians” in films, Dan North suggests that cinematic effects should be understood not as attempts to perfectly mimic real life but as constructions of substitute realities, situating them in the cultural lineage of stage performers and illusionists.
$8.00 paper 978-1-905674-53-4 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-54-1 008 256 pages Wallflower Press
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Dubbing and Subtitling in a World Context
Edited by Gilbert Fong This volume is a collection of selected papers presented at the “International Conference on Dubbing and Subtitling in a World Context.” The growing globalization of the film industry has created a huge demand for the professional service of dubbing and subtitling. This book looks at dubbing and subtitling from a world perspective, and is a must-read for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the history and theory of subtitling.
$5.00 paper 978-962-996-356-9 april 008 320 pages Chinese University Press
Music, Sound, and Multimedia
From the Live to the Virtual
Edited by Jamie Sexton Music and sound effects have been central to a multitude of media forms throughout the twentieth century, as background accompaniment and as a main driving force of action. Yet the investigation of sonic interactions with other media forms has been largely underresearched. Music, Sound, and Multimedia uniquely studies how music and other sounds play a central part in our understanding and uses of a variety of communications media. Jamie Sexton focuses on four areas of sound and music within broader multimedia forms—music videos, video game music, performance and presentation, and production and consumption.
$.50 paper 978-0-7486-2534-5 $95.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2533-8 008 224 pages music and the moving image Edinburgh University Press
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Film’s Musical Moments
Edited by Ian Conrich and Estella Tincknell The authors are concerned with both the relationship between performance, music, and film and the specificity of national, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Subjects include: cinematic representations of music forms; celebrities, fan culture, and intertextuality; and the importance of the soundtrack movie.
$0.00 paper 0-7486-2345-0 $80.00 cloth 0-7486-2344-2 007 240 pages music and the moving image Edinburgh University Press
The Columbia History of American Television
Gary Edgerton
“An accessible and compelling narrative of the complicated forces that went into creating our most enigmatic of mediums.”—Ken Burns, Filmmaker
Media historian Gary R. Edgerton follows the technological developments and increasing cultural relevance of TV from its prehistory (before 1947) to the Network Era (1948– 1975) and the Cable Era (1976–1994). He begins with the laying of the first telegraph line in 1844, which gave rise to the idea that images and sounds could be transmitted over long distances. He then considers the remodeling of television’s look and purpose during World War II; the gender, racial, and ethnic components of its early broadcasts and audiences; its transformation of postwar America; and its function in the political life of the country. Edgerton concludes with a discerning look at our current Digital Era and the new forms of instantaneous communication that continue to change America’s social, political, and economic landscape.
$7.50 / £.00 cloth 978-0-231-12164-4 007 512 pages / 75 illus. columbia histories of modern american life
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The Presidential Debates
Fifty Years of High Risk TV Second Edition
Alan Schroeder
“The most compulsive read in recent times on how and why we elect our national leaders.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Pens and Swords
How the American Mainstream Media Reports the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Marda Dunsky Beginning with the failed Camp David summit of July 2000 and ending with the waning of the second Palestinian uprising in the summer of 2004, Marda Dunsky takes a close look at how more than two dozen major American print and broadcast outlets have reported the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She finds that they omit two key contextual elements: the significant impact that U.S. policy has had and continues to have on the trajectory of the conflict, and the way international law and consensus have addressed the key issues of Israeli settlement and annexation policies and Palestinian refugees. She explores how reporting of the conflict routinely takes on the contours of American policy and rarely challenges the premises of this “Washington consensus.” In addition, she examines the media’s responses to allegations of biased coverage and gauges the effect that mainstream news reporting has on public opinion and U.S. foreign policy. She includes the perspectives of more than a dozen correspondents who have reported the story from the field for major American media outlets.
$7.50 / £16.00 paper 978-0-231-13349-4 $79.50 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-13348-7 008 416 pages
This wildly popular history now covers the 2000 Bush-Gore and 2004 Bush-Kerry debates, including innovations in format and press coverage, and incorporates new research into the analysis of televised debates since 1960. Alan Schroeder organizes his book according to a television production timeline, highlighting the importance of pre- and post-debate periods, as well as the live telecasts themselves. He describes production in painstaking detail, from the selection of questioners to camera angles, from makeup to lighting and set design. Televised debates represent a rare departure from well-choreographed campaigns, and with new media such as YouTube continuing to redefine form and content, the 2008 election should present the most exciting opportunities for debate yet.
$4.50 / £14.50 paper 978-0-231-14105-5 $74.50 / £44.00 cloth 978-0-231-14104-8 july 008 352 pages
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Social Issues in Television Fiction
Lesley Henderson Social Issues in Television Fiction offers lively and engaging insight into how and why socially sensitive story lines were portrayed by different TV programs from the late 1980s to today. Drawing on a series of case studies on medicine, health, illness, and social problems, the volume traces storylines from initial conception to audience reception and uses contemporary examples to link practice and theory.
$6.00 paper 978-0-7486-2532-1 $85.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2531-4 007 208 pages Edinburgh University Press
The Contemporary Television Series
Edited by Michael Hammond and Lucy Mazdon A provocative study of serial television, this book explores such influential programs as 24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER, The Sopranos, and The West Wing. Divided into history, aesthetics, and reception, chapters consider the formal and aesthetic elements of serials through issues like gender, sexuality, and national identity.
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European Cinemas in the Television Age
Edited by Graham Roberts and Dorota Ostrowska Graham Roberts and Dorota Ostrowska radically rethink European cinema’s postwar history from the perspective of television’s impact on the culture of cinema’s production, distribution, consumption, and reception. In every European country television has transformed the economic, technological, and aesthetic terms of cinema production. Its growing popularity has drastically reshaped cinema’s audiences and forced governments to introduce policies to regulate the interaction between cinema and television. Cinematic criticism has been slow to address the impact of television, but this study recognizes its influence and offers a more authentic and richer history of European cinemas.
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AUTHOR / TITLE INDEX
Aaron, Michele ...............................................20 Action/Adventure Films.................................... 15 Allen, Richard ..................................................39 Alternatives to Hollywood ................................ 15 Altman, Rick .................................................4, 8 American Western, The ................................... 26 Angelini, Sergio .............................................. 30 Approaches to Pop Music................................. 15 Asian Cinemas ..................................................32 Bainbridge, Caroline ...................................... 42 Battle of Britain on Screen, The........................ 6 Beattie, Keith ............................................. 11, 34 Berry, Chris J. ................................................... 31 Beumers, Birgit ...............................................34 Blain, Neil ........................................................36 Boon, Timothy ................................................25 Bould, Mark...............................................25, 41 Brink, Joram ten .............................................40 Building Bridges ...............................................40 Burnett, Mark Thornton.................................18 Butler, Brad ......................................................32 Cairns, Lucille ................................................. 22 Casetti, Francesco .............................................3 Chaudhuri, Shohini.........................................36 Chávez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 33 Children’s Comics ............................................. 15 China on Screen ............................................... 31 Chopra-Gant, Michael ..................................... 8 Chow, Rey ........................................................ 31 Cinema and History .......................................... 8 Cinema of Ang Lee, The ..................................41 Cinema of Australia and New Zealand, The ..34 Cinema of Canada, The ...................................34 Cinema of Contradiction, A .............................33 Cinema of David Cronenberg, The ..................43 Cinema of Jan Sˇvankmajer, The.................... 42 Cinema of John Sayles, The .............................41 Cinema of Lars von Trier, The ......................... 42 Cinema of Neil Jordan, The .............................41 Cinema of N. Africa and the Middle East, The34 Cinema of Prayoga, The ..................................32 Cinema of Roman Polanski, The.....................43 Cinema of Russia and the Former Soviet Union, The ....................................................................34 Cinema of Sally Potter, The .............................43 Cinema of Steven Spielberg, The.....................43 Cinema of Terrence Malick, The ..................... 42 Cinema of the Balkans, The ............................34 Cinema of Todd Haynes, The ..........................41 Cinema of Werner Herzog, The ...................... 42 Cinematic Tango, The ......................................33 Cities in Transition ............................................16 Close-Up 01.......................................................21 Close-Up 02 ......................................................21 Close-Up 03 ......................................................21 Col. Companion to Amer. History on Film, The6 Columbia History of American Television, The47 Comedy Films................................................... 15 Conrich, Ian .................................................... 47 Contemporary British Cinema .........................36 Contemporary Television Series, The...............49 Contemporary World Cinema ..........................36 Coombs, Neil ..................................................14 Cousins, Mark .................................................38 Crime Films ..................................................... 24 Crosby, Emily .................................................. 29 Crossing New Europe ...................................... 26 Davies, Cath .................................................... 15 Davis, Colin ...................................................... 9 Dawson, Anna...........................................12, 14 Dekalog 01: On The Five Obstructions ...........45 Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity ........20 Dennison, Stephanie ......................................33 de Seife, Ethan................................................ 28 Dilley, Whitney Crothers .................................41 Direct Cinema ..................................................17 Disaster Movies.................................................23 Documentary Display....................................... 11 Doherty, Thomas ..............................................3 Domaille, Kate................................................. 15 Dönmez-Colin, Gönül ....................................34 Donnie Darko .................................................. 28 Dubbing and Subtitling in a World Context...46 Dunbar, Brian .................................................. 15 Dunsky, Marda ............................................... 48 Early and Silent Cinema .................................. 15 Edgerton, Gary ............................................... 47 Electric Sounds ...................................................5 Eleftheriotis, Dimitris .....................................32 European Cinemas in the Television Age........49 Exploring Visual Culture ...................................19 Eye of the Century ..............................................3 Falicov, Tamara L.............................................33 Family Affair, A .................................................17 Farquhar, Mary ................................................ 31 Faulkner, Sally ..................................................33 Feminist Auteurs.............................................. 22 Feminist Film Studies....................................... 15 Film’s Musical Moments ................................ 47 Film and Philosophy.........................................10 Film and Television Textual Analysis ................ 15 Film Curatorship ............................................. 30 Film Genre........................................................27 Film Noir ..........................................................25 Filmosophy .......................................................19 Films of Fact .....................................................25 Fires Were Started ............................................35 Fong, Gilbert...................................................46 Frampton, Daniel............................................19 Francis, David................................................. 30 French New Wave, The ....................................37 Friedman, Lester .............................................35 Gaffney, Freddie ............................................. 44 Galt, Rosalind................................................... 9 George Gallup in Hollywood ............................ 4 German Expressionist Cinema .........................37 Gibbs, John......................................................21 Greene, Naomi ...............................................37 Griffiths, Alison .................................................2 Grossman, Alan ..............................................16 Guerin, Frances ...............................................16 Gunn, Judith ....................................................14 Hallas, Roger ...................................................16 Hames, Peter ................................................. 42 Hammond, Michael ......................................49 Harper, Graeme ..............................................19 Haunted Images ................................................7 Helsby, Wendy................................................. 15 Henderson, Lesley .........................................49 Hibberd, Lynne................................................14 Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony .............................39 Hjort, Mette.....................................................45 Hollywood’s Censor ............................................3 Hollywood Science ...........................................23 Horror Genre, The............................................ 15 Horwath, Alexander..................................11, 30 Hutchison, David............................................36 Image and the Witness, The ............................16 Impossible David Lynch, The ...........................39 Ingmar Bergman Revisited .............................40 Iordanova, Dina ..............................................34 Irvine, Sandy ....................................................14 Jeavons, C. .........................................................5 Jess-Cooke, Carolyn ........................................18 John Mills and British Cinema.........................18 Josef von Sternberg ........................................... 11 Kaye, Linda ..................................................... 29 Keane, Stephen ...............................................23 King, Geoff...................................................... 28 Kirchner, D. ........................................................5 Kirwan-Hayhoe, Mark.....................................14 Koskinen, Maaret...........................................40 Krzywinska, Tanya ..........................................20 Land, Owen ....................................................40 Langford, Barry................................................27 Leggott, James ................................................36 Lim, Song Hwee .............................................33 Lin, Sylvia Li-chun ...........................................32 Loebenstein, Michael .................................... 30 Lord of the Rings, The ......................................19 Mackenzie, S. P................................................ 6 Martin-Jones, David.......................................20 Mathijs, Ernest ..........................................19, 43 Mayer, Geoff ....................................................34 Mayer, Sophie..................................................43 Mazdon, Lucy.................................................49 Mazierska, Ewa .............................................. 26 McDonald, Keith............................................. 15 McDonald, Tamar Jeffers .............................. 24 McDougall, Julian ...........................................27 McGowan, Todd .............................................39 McInnes, Rob .................................................. 15 McKernan, Luke .......................................29, 30 McVeigh, Stephen.......................................... 26 Media in Scotland, The....................................36 Media in the Digital Age................................. 44 Mercer, J. ............................................................5 Mirza, Karen ....................................................32 Morris, Nigel ...................................................43 Morrison, James .............................................41 Moving Image Knowledge and Access............ 30 Muir, Stephanie......................................... 13, 14 Murray, Andy ...................................................14 Murray, Terri .................................................... 15 Music, Sound, and Multimedia......................46 Narrative in Film and TV................................. 15 Needham, Gary...............................................32 New European Cinema, The ............................ 9 North, Dan ......................................................45 O’Brien, Áine ...................................................16 O’Brien, Wayne ...............................................27 Oesterlan, Eve-Marie ..................................... 29 Ohmer, Susan .................................................. 4 Omasta, Michael ............................................ 11 On Screenwriting............................................. 44 Orr, John ..........................................................43 Ostrowska, Dorota .................................. 37, 49 Ostrowska, Elzbieta ........................................43 Patterson, Hannah ........................................ 42 Pavlik, John V. ................................................. 44 Pens and Swords ............................................. 48 Performing Illusions ..........................................45 Perkowitz, Sidney............................................23 Perks, Sarah..................................................... 15 Plain, Gill..........................................................18 Plate, S. Brent ..................................................10 Points, Jeremy .................................................14 Pomerance, Murray ........................................17 Powell, Danny .................................................14 Prager, Brad .................................................... 42 Presidential Debates, The................................ 48 Projecting Migration.........................................16 Pye, Douglas....................................................21 Ramanathan, Geetha .................................... 22 Rampley, Matthew ..........................................19 Rascaroli, Laura.............................................. 26 Reading the French New Wave........................37 Redmond, Sean .................................. 12, 13, 14 Reekie, Duncan .................................................5 Rehahn, Eleanor.............................................. 15 Religion and Film .............................................10 Remapping World Cinema ..............................33 Representing Atrocity in Taiwan.......................32 Researcher’s Guide, The .................................. 30 Researcher’s Guide to British Cinemagazines 29 Researcher’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film, Televison, and Radio ........................................ 29 Rimmer, Will....................................................14
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Roberts, Graham ...........................................49 Roberts, Ian .....................................................37 Rocky Horror Picture Show, The..................... 28 Rollins, Peter C................................................. 6 Rolston, Lorraine ............................................14 Romantic Comedy........................................... 24 Sapphism on Screen........................................ 22 Saunders, Dave ...............................................17 Saxton, Libby .....................................................7 Scarratt, Elaine ................................................ 15 Scenes of Love and Murder ............................... 9 Schroeder, Alan .............................................. 48 Science Fiction Film ......................................... 15 Screening Shakespeare in the 21st Century......18 Sentimental Fabulations, Cont. Chinese Films 31 Sequences ........................................................ 30 Sex and the Cinema ........................................20 Sexton, Jamie..................................................46 Shakespeare on Film ........................................18 Shary, Timothy.................................................25 Shaw, Daniel C. ...............................................10 Shivers Down Your Spine ...................................2 Silent Film Sound.............................................. 4 Smith, Ian Haydn........................................... 29 Social Issues in Television Fiction ....................49 Spectatorship ...................................................20 St. George, Paul ............................................. 30 Stone, Rob .......................................................19 Stoneman, Rod ...............................................33 Story of the Century!, The ..................................5 Studying American Beauty .............................14 Studying Blade Runner .............................12, 14 Studying Chungking Express.................... 13, 14 Studying City of God ................................. 13, 14 Studying Donnie Darko ..................................14 Studying From Russia with Love ...................14 Studying Gladiator...........................................14 Studying Surrealist and Fantasy Cinema ........14 Studying The Lord of the Rings .....................14 Studying The Matrix ..................................12, 14 Studying The Sixth Sense ...............................14 Studying The Third Man .................................14 Studying The Usual Suspects ........................14 Studying The Wicker Man ..............................14 Studying Videogames .......................................27 Subversion...........................................................5 Talking Movies ..................................................38 TCM International Film Guide 2008 ............. 29 Teen Movies ................................................ 15, 25 Terris, Olwen................................................... 29 Theory of Narrative, A ....................................... 8 This Is Spinal Tap............................................. 28 Thompson, Kirsten Moana........................... 24 Tincknell, Estella............................................. 47 Two Films by Owen Land ...............................40 Uncovering the Holocaust..................................7 Unsilvered Screen, The .....................................19 Usai, Paolo Cherchi ....................................... 30 van der Knaap, Ewout ......................................7 Vanderschelden, Isabelle................................ 15 Vision On ..........................................................35 Webber, Andrew ..............................................16 Weinstock, Jeffrey ........................................... 28 White, Jerry ......................................................34 Widescreen ........................................................38 Willis, Andy ...................................................... 15 Wilson, Emma.................................................16 Withall, Keith ................................................... 15 Wood, Jason ....................................................38 Wray, Ramona .................................................18 Wurtzler, Steve J. ...............................................5 Wyver, John ......................................................35 Zucker, Carole..................................................41
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Film History ................................................... 2 History on Film ..............................................6 Film Criticism ................................................8 Gender & Film ............................................. 22 Film Genres ................................................. 23 Cultographies by Wallflower Press .............. 28 Film Reference .............................................29 International Film .........................................31 Film Directors .............................................. 39 Film Making .................................................44 Sound & Music ............................................46 Television & Radio ....................................... 47 Author / Title Index ..................................... 50 Order Form ...................................................51
FILM HISTORY
Forthcoming
AliSon GriffithS
ShiverS Down Your Spine
Cinema & the History of the Immersive View
Shivers Down Your Spine
Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View
Alison Griffiths
“An important historical and theoretical voyage of discovery, this book leads the reader into neglected realms of spatial illusions that preceded, inflected, and may outlast the movies as we know them.”—Tom Gunning, University of Chicago
Cover Illustration: Film Strip: © Alex White, Fotolia.com Manuscript queries and proposals can be sent to the Film Studies editor, Jennifer Crewe at jc373@ columbia.edu For a complete listing of Columbia’s titles or for more information about any book in this catalog, visit our web site: www.cup.columbia.edu To order Wallflower Press books outside of the United States, Canada and Latin America, please contact Wallflower Press directly at: www.wallflowerpress.co.uk To order Auteur Publishing books outside of the United States, Canada and Latin America, please contact Auteur Publishing directly at: www.auteur.co.uk Most titles in this catalog pulished by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the Press. If no UK price appears, it is most likely from Columbia only in the United States, its possessions, and Canada Titles published by Wallflower Press are available in the United States, Canada and Latin America from Columbia. Titles published by The Chinese University Press are available from Columbia only in Canada and the United States. Titles published by Edinburgh University Press are available from Columbia only in the United States and Latin America.
Since their inception, museums of science and natural history have mixed education and entertainment to incredible, eye-opening effect. Such modern technologies as touch-screen kiosks, videowalls, 3-D animation, podcasts, and IMAX draw spectators to museums in large numbers, promising a deeper understanding of the natural world through an expansive form of sensual experience. These interactive modes of exhibition send “shivers” down our spines, reflecting the distinct cognitive and visceral mapping skills we bring to spectacular architecture and illusionistic media. Focusing on several historical case studies, Alison Griffiths explores the uncanny and unforgettable impact of the panorama, planetarium, IMAX theater, and the medieval cathedral on the spectator. Through her analysis Griffiths reveals the sometimes surprising antecedents of our modern forms of media.
$45.00 / £6.50 cloth 978-0-231-12988-6 july 008 448 pages film and culture series
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New
Eye of the Century
Film, Experience, Modernity
Francesco Casetti
“An extraordinarily rich meditation on the ways that cinema operated at the very heart of the unruly twentieth century.”—Charles Musser, Yale University
Hollywood’s Censor
Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration
Thomas Doherty
“Doherty writes with such wit and verve, bringing the past to life... a very entertaining read.” —Publishers Weekly “Compelling, colorful, insightful, and nearly encyclopedic in detail...destined to become the definitive scholarly biography of Breen. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal “[An] entertaining and rigorous biography of Breen.”—New York Times Book Review
In this brilliant book, acclaimed film scholar Francesco Casetti situates the cinematic experience within discourses of twentiethcentury modernity. He suggests that film defined a unique gaze, not only because it recorded many of the century’s most important events, but also because it determined the manner in which they were received. Casetti begins by examining film’s nature as a medium in an age obsessed with immediacy, nearness, and accessibility. He considers the myths and rituals cinema constructed on the screen and in the theater and how they provided new images and behaviors that responded to emerging concerns, ideas, and social orders.
$7.50 / £16.00 paper 978-0-231-13995-3 $79.50 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-13994-6 june 008 288 pages film and culture series
From 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a mediasavvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office responsible for censoring the American screen. Though little known outside the ranks of the studio system, this former journalist and public relations agent was one of the most powerful men in the motion picture industry. Cultural historian Thomas Doherty tells the absorbing story of Breen’s ascent to power and the widespread effects of his reign.
$9.50 / £17.50 cloth 978-0-231-14358-5 007 496 pages
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FILM HISTORY
George Gallup in Hollywood
Susan Ohmer
“A well-detailed account of this obscure chapter in cinema history . . . Recommended.”—Library Journal “A fascinating and exciting book.”—Public Opinion Quarterly
Silent Film Sound
Rick Altman
Winner of the Limina Award for Best Cinema Studies Book Winner of the Theater Library Association Award
“Rick Altman has given us a magnum opus... a stunningly original work of film history.”—Film Quarterly “Silent Film Sound is a bible of reference information and vintage photos.”—Bookwatch “A magisterial effort of a type rarely seen in cinema today... Altman’s history is precise, reflective, and human.”—Cinema Journal
George Gallup’s polling techniques first achieved fame when he accurately predicted that Franklin D. Roosevelt would be reelected president in 1936. Hollywood studio executives quickly pounced on the value of Gallup’s research, and soon Gallup was gauging reactions to stars and scripts for RKO Pictures, David O. Selznick, and Walt Disney and taking the public’s temperature on Orson Welles and Desi Arnaz, couples such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and films like Gone with the Wind, Dumbo, and Fantasia. Through interviews and extensive research, Susan Ohmer traces Gallup’s groundbreaking approach to market research from his early education in the advertising industry to his later work in Hollywood.
$5.50 / £15.00 paper 978-0-231-12133-0 $7.50 / £4.50 cloth 978-0-231-12132-3 006 336 pages / 17 illus. film and culture series
Based on extensive original research and filled with gorgeous illustrations, Silent Film Sound reconsiders all aspects of sound practices during the silent film period in America. Beginning with sound accompaniment and continuing through to the more familiar sound practices of the 1920s, renowned film historian Rick Altman discusses the variety of sound strategies cinema exhibitors used to differentiate their products.
$9.00 / £17.00 paper 978-0-231-11663-3 $75.00 / £44.00 cloth 978-0-231-11662-6 007 480 pages film and culture series
Also by Rick Altman
A Theory of Narrative
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The Story of the Century!
An International Newsfilm Conference
Edited by C. Jeavons, J. Mercer, and D. Kirchner With contributions by cameramen, editors, producers, film and television researchers, and academics, this book provides lively insights into the world of the newsfilm.
$5.00 paper 978-0-901299-69-7
Electric Sounds
Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media
Steve J. Wurtzler
“Essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century audio: the hum and buzz of amplified sound as well as the corporate ka-ching that helped to make it so pervasive.”—Lisa Gitelman, author of Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture “Extensively researched. . . Recommended.” —Choice
006 170 pages Wallflower Press, Distributor of the British Universities Film & Video Council
Subversion
The Definitive History of Underground Cinema
Duncan Reekie Duncan Reekie explores the history of underground cinema, including the British independent and French avant-garde cinemas of the 1920s, the counterculture film movements of the 1960s, the microcinema resurgence of the 1990s, and beyond. Dispensing with simplistic “art versus commerce” discourses, Subversion not only discovers the cultural roots of underground filmmaking in bohemian cabarets of nineteenth-century Paris and the fairbooths of medieval London, but situates the underground as a radical and popular subculture separate from mainstream cinema and avant-garde film.
$6.00 paper 978-1-905674-21-3 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-22-0 007 260 pages / 20 illus. Wallflower Press
Electric Sounds brings to vivid life an era when innovations in the production, recording, and transmission of sound revolutionized a number of different media, especially the radio, the phonograph, and the cinema. Steve J. Wurtzler’s impeccably researched history adds a new dimension to the study of sound media, proving that the ultimate form technology takes is never predetermined. Rather, it is shaped by conflicting visions of technological possibility in economic, cultural, and political realms.
$4.50 / £0.50 cloth 978-0-231-13676-1 007 416 pages / 15 illus. film and culture series
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The Columbia Companion to American History on Film
How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past
Edited by Peter C. Rollins
Winner of the Popular Culture Association’s Ray and Pat Browne Award for a reference work. Finalist: Theater Library Association Award
The Battle of Britain on Screen
‘The Few’ in British Film and Television Drama
S. P. Mackenzie The Battle of Britain on Screen examines the origins, development, and reception of the screen representations of “The Few” in the Battle of Britain. It explores both continuity and change of presentation in relation to a wartime event that acquired near-mythical dimensions in popular consciousness even before it happened. In addition to technical developments, considerable social, cultural, and political fluctuations occurred during this period.
$5.00 paper 978-0-7486-2390-7 $75.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2389-1 007 160 pages societies at war Edinburgh University Press
“Film buffs will find the mix of history and cinematic analysis captivating, while historians will be intrigued by the book’s analysis of popular culture.”—Publishers Weekly “An excellent print source. . . . Highly recommended.”—American Reference Books Annual “Highly recommended.”—Choice
$1.50 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-11223-9 $9.50 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-11222-2 006 696 pages
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Haunted Images
Film, Ethics, Testimony, and the Holocaust
Libby Saxton
“Haunted Images takes the study of Holocaust representation to new levels of theoretical sophistication. The various arguments are presented with lucidity, depth and dramatic finesse, offering an exciting reading to complex aesthetic issues and demanding ethical considerations, ultimately suggesting how the representations of the Holocaust and their critical discourse offer insights into the future of the image as witness.”—Ilan Avisar, Tel Aviv University
Uncovering the Holocaust
The International Reception of Night and Fog
Edited by Ewout van der Knaap Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog, 1956) by Alain Resnais carried the impact of the Holocaust to the cinema screen and to societies across the world. This volume, which coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of the film’s release, examines its representation of the Holocaust and documents its reception in different contexts, countries, and societies, as well as its continuing place in the cultural memory of the Holocaust. It comprises a comparative study of the place of the film in the debates around the actuality and the meaning of the Holocaust in France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, the UK, and the U.S.
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-64-9 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-65-6 007 208 pages / 20 illus. Wallflower Press
Haunted Images considers a range of cinematic treatments of the Holocaust, using sustained textual analysis to radically rethink film as a witness to history. This volume redefines the particular challenges genocide presents to filmmakers, suggesting that filmic representations address the Holocaust as much through what is unseen as through what is visualized directly. Incorporating discussion of film such as Kapo (1960), Shoah (1985), and Histoire(s) du cinéma (1997), this work provides a compelling reading of European cinema’s response to the problems the Holocaust presents to filmmakers.
$8.00 paper 978-1-905674-35-0 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-36-7 008 256 pages Wallflower Press
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HISTORY ON FILM
Forthcoming
FILM CRITICISM
Forthcoming
Cinema and History
The Telling of Stories
Michael Chopra-Gant With its unparalleled capacity for realism, cinema seems uniquely positioned to bring history to life for a mass audience. Whether retelling stories about past events or reflecting more contemporary issues, cinema has been arguably the primary source of historical knowledge for many people from its earliest years up to the present. This volume examines key historical issues raised by popular film, including what film might tell us about the past, the reliability of movies as sources of historical knowledge, and how film might compare to more "serious" works of history. Cinema and History discusses the historical resonance of films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Gangs of New York (2002), and United 93 (2006).
$.00 paper 978-1-905674-59-6 june 008 144 pages short cuts
A Theory of Narrative
Rick Altman
“Altman draws on examples ranging from the Bible to Hollywood films, from classical epic and pastoral to medieval heroic poetry, and from saints’ lives to nineteenth- and twentiethcentury French, British, and American novels, all analyzed within an impressively parsimonious scheme.”—Peter Garrett, University of Illinois
Breaking away from traditional forms of analysis, award-winning scholar Rick Altman introduces a new approach to studying narrative, identifying three basic strategies: single focus, dual focus, and multiple focus. Analyzing an intentionally diverse selection of texts, Altman demonstrates how these strategies function in context, and illustrates their theoretical and practical applications in terms of textual analysis, literary and film history, social organization, religion, and politics. Altman employs his inventive terminology and precise analytical methods throughout this groundbreaking work, making it an ideal teaching tool for literary and film theory courses and for the general reader interested in exploring narrative.
$7.50 / £16.00 paper 978-0-231-14429-2 $79.50 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-14428-5 july 008 384 pages
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Scenes of Love and Murder
Renoir, Film, and Philosophy
Colin Davis Jean Renoir (1894–1979) is one of cinema history’s greatest directors. La Grande illusion (1937) and La Règle du jeu (1939) rank among the masterpieces of film. Turning to thinkers such as Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Girard, Derrida, and Cavell, Colin Davis examines Renoir’s films and illustrates how his work engages with some of the great philosophical questions. In particular, Renoir’s films reflect on the nature of murder and its link to desire, community, ethics, and the mystery of other minds. As his films strive, and often fail, to avoid the impasse of violence, they find creative ways of reinventing what it means to be human.
$7.50 paper 978-1-905674-63-3 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-64-0 july 008 224 pages Wallflower Press
The New European Cinema
Redrawing the Map
Rosalind Galt
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
“Brilliant.. . This book will interest all students of European culture, not just European Cinema. . . Essential.”—Choice “In her ambitious scope, analytical acumen and deep research, Rosalind Galt makes a daring and much-needed intervention.”—Film International
Rosalind Galt offers innovative readings of some of the most popular and influential European films of the 1990s, including Emir Kusturica’s Underground, Lars Von Trier’s Zentropa, and Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso. She considers how these films, made around the time of the revolutions of 1989, grappled with contemporary anxieties relating to the reunification of Germany, the disintegration of the Balkans, and a sense of historical loss and disenchantment. Going beyond the conventional focus on national cinemas, Galt considers how films from the Balkans to Scandinavia are recasting relationships among European cinema, history, and identity.
$4.50 / £16.00 paper 978-0-231-13717-1 $64.50 / £41.50 cloth 978-0-231-13716-4 006 336 pages / 53 illus. film and culture series
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FILM CRITICISM
Forthcoming Forthcoming
Religion and Film
Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World
S. Brent Plate The religious altar and the film screen appear as cousins. Religion and film both re-create the known world and then present that alternative vision to their audience. Religion and Film explores the connection of these two worlds and how they mutually affect each other. The hypothesis is that by paying attention to the way films are constructed, we can shed light on the way religions are constructed, and vice versa. This book brings together religious studies and film studies, asking questions about film’s effect on religious attitudes and how millennia-old myths and rituals alter the making of film.
$.00 paper 978-1-905674-69-5 july 008 144 pages / 12 illus. short cuts Wallflower Press
Film and Philosophy
Taking Movies Seriously
Daniel C. Shaw In Film and Philosophy: Taking Movies Seriously philosophers and philosophical film theorists discuss movies in a way that takes cinema as seriously as any other fine art, leaving little doubt that the philosophy of film is a serious intellectual enterprise. After discussing the philosophical commitments of such early film theorists as Hugo Münsterberg and Sergei Eisenstein, this book offers detailed profiles of Stanley Cavell and Noël Carroll, providing archetypal examples of what it means to regard film philosophically.
$.00 paper 978-1-905674-70-1 july 008 144 pages / 12 illus. short cuts Wallflower Press
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Forthcoming
New
Documentary Display
Re-Viewing Nonfiction Film and Video
Keith Beattie Not all documentary films and videos are sober depictions of the real world. Documentary representations can present expressive, entertaining, and spectacular images and explore modes of “showing,” in which sensation is the vehicle of cognition and knowledge. This display is analyzed within the popular and prominent forms of found-footage film, “rockumentary,” the city film, nonfiction surf film and video, and certain views of natural science. An accessible and informed study, its focus on entertaining, popular, spectacular, and sensational forms of nonfiction representation is an important contribution to theoretical analysis of documentary film and video.
$9.50 paper 978-1-905674-72-5 $90.00 cloth 978-1-905674-73-2 june 008 224 pages nonfictions Wallflower Press
Josef von Sternberg
The Case of Lena Smith
Edited by Alexander Horwath and Michael Omasta In his 1929 Hollywood production The Case of Lena Smith, director Josef von Sternberg brought to life his youthful memories of Vienna at the turn of the nineteenth century. Only a short fragment of this film survives, making The Case of Lena Smith one of the legendary lost masterpieces of American cinema. Bringing together 150 original stills and set designs, numerous script and production documents, and essays by eminent film historians, this book reconstructs Sternberg’s dramatic film about a young woman fighting the oppressive class system of imperial Vienna.
$.50 paper 978-1-901644-22-1 008 304 pages Wallflower Press, Distributor for the Austrian Film Museum
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Studying Blade Runner
Sean Redmond In Studying Blade Runner, Sean Redmond uses the key concepts of media and film studies—film language, representation, institutions, and audiences—to explore the significance of the film. Specifically, the book looks at the film’s breakthrough use of special effects as a narrative tool; its revolutionary representation of the future city; its treatment of racial and sexual politics; and its unique status as a text whose meaning was fundamentally altered in the re-released “Director’s Cut.”
$15.00 paper 978-1-903663-79-0 may 008 96 pages / 12 illus. studying films Auteur Publishing
Studying The Matrix
Anna Dawson Following the release of the sequels to the 1999 hit film, The Matrix, producer Joel Silver declared 2003 as “the Year of The Matrix.” Interest in all three films remains high and the original film makes an ideal case study in science fiction cinema. SF fans are absorbed in the film’s revolutionary special effects; action-movie buffs relish the conjunction of Hong Kong martial arts techniques with mainstream Hollywood aesthetics; and intellectuals immerse themselves in the film’s explicit evocation of Baudrillard and higher mathematics.
$15.00 paper 978-1-903663-82-0 may 008 96 pages / 12 illus. studying films Auteur Publishing
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Studying City of God
Stephanie Muir City of God was a huge international success, a combination of intoxicating, Hollywoodstyle filmmaking and hard-hitting, socialrealist subject matter. Stephanie Muir provides a consideration of the historical and industrial context of the film, a brief history of Latin American cinema, then a detailed account of filmmaking in Brazil. She looks at how the film uses the components of narrative to experiment with time while using traditional genre conventions. A detailed, illustrated analysis of the kinetic, scene-setting opening sequence is used to dissect the formal elements of the film.
$15.00 paper 978-1-903663-81-3 may 008 96 pages / 12 illus. studying films Auteur Publishing
Studying Chungking Express
Sean Redmond Wong Kar-Wai’s 1994 Chungking Express explores time and desire and, on an allegorical level, the perceived loss of independence that many felt would take place post-1997. Studying Chungking Express considers these historical details but also the key issues of form, authorship, representation, and identity. In particular, the book studies the film’s central place within the Hong Kong New Wave film movement; its radical film form— notably the cut-and-mix play with editing techniques, Wong Kar-wai’s signature as an auteur; its representation of the postmodern city, and its relationship to both Hollywood cinema and European art film.
$15.00 paper 978-1-903663-80-6 may 008 96 pages / 12 illus. studying films Auteur Publishing
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instructor’s editions of studying films available in an 8.5” x 11.65” format from auteur publishing Studying Surrealist and Fantasy Cinema
Neil Coombs
$0.00 paper 978-1-903663-73-8 007 70 pages / 20 illus.
Studying City of God
Stephanie Muir
$0.00 paper 978-1-903663-59-2 005 56 pages / 12 illus. studying films
Studying The Lord of the Rings
Anna Dawson
$0.00 paper 978-1-903663-66-0 006 82 pages / 30 illus.
Studying The Wicker Man
Andy Murray and Lorraine Rolston
$0.00s paper 978-1-903663-10-3 00 26 pages / 10 illus.
Studying The Matrix
Anna Dawson
$0.00 paper 978-1-903663-26-4 00 54 pages / 12 illus.
Studying American Beauty
Jeremy Points
$0.00s paper 978-1-903663-27-1 004 86 pages / 30 illus.
Studying The Usual Suspects
Judith Gunn
$0.00 paper 978-1-903663-69-1 006 72 pages / 20 illus.
Studying Donnie Darko
Danny Powell
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Studying The Third Man
Lynne Hibberd
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Studying Blade Runner
Sean Redmond
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Studying Gladiator
Sandy Irvine
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Studying Chungking Express
Sean Redmond
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Studying The Sixth Sense
Mark Kirwan-Hayhoe
$0.00 paper 978-1-903663-63-9 006 60 pages / 20 illus.
Studying From Russia with Love
Will Rimmer
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Classroom Resources and Teacher’s Guides from Auteur Publishing
Features exercises, essay questions, discussion topics, and activities that help teachers work with students to create an engaging course in film study.
Action/Adventure Films
Rob McInnes
Teacher’s Guide: 008 238 pages / 12 illus. $5.00 wire 978-1-903663-15-8 Classroom Resource: 008 96 pages $0.00 wire 978-1-903663-16-5
Feminist Film Studies
Terri Murray
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Alternatives to Hollywood
Sarah Perks, Isabelle Vanderschelden, and Andy Willis
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Film and Television Textual Analysis
Keith McDonald
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Approaches to Pop Music
Cath Davies
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The Horror Genre
Kate Domaille
Teacher’s Guide: 008 94 pages / 8 illus. $5.00 wire 978-1-903663-06-6 Classroom Resource: 008 40 pages $0.00 wire 978-1-903663-07-3
Children’s Comics
Wendy Helsby
Teacher’s Guide: 008 110 pages / 12 illus. $5.00 wire 978-1-903663-20-2 Classroom Resource: 008 80 pages $0.00 wire 978-1-903663-21-9
Teen Movies
Rob McInnes
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Comedy Films
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Narrative in Film and TV
Eleanor Rehahn
Teacher’s Guide: 008 126 pages / 12 illus. $5.00 wire 978-1-903663-61-5 Classroom Resource: 008 50 pages $0.00 wire 978-1-903663-62-2
Early and Silent Cinema
Keith Withall
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Science Fiction Film
Elaine Scarratt
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Projecting Migration
Transcultural Documentary Practice
Edited by Alan Grossman and Áine O’Brien Migration is a major global issue, increasingly determining who we are and how we define ourselves. Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice is a groundbreaking book/dvd project that explores contemporary ethnographic narratives through film, photography, multimedia, and radio. The dvd contains media material from each essay, cross-referenced with the text, creating an interactive, multimedia study of migration. Audio and visual imagination is a crucial component of cultural identity, and this collection marks a major cross-media, interdisciplinary contribution.
$40.00 paper w/ dvd 978-1-905674-04-6 007 224 pages / 40 illus. nonfictions Wallflower Press
Cities in Transition
The Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis
Edited by Andrew Webber and Emma Wilson The city has been a modernist inspiration for silent classics such as Metropolis (1926) and contemporary films like The Matrix (1999). Cities in Transition is an ambitious collection of writings from film theorists, architects, and filmmakers discussing this complex yet enduring relationship and the impact of early cinema, digital technology, and changing urban geographies on representations of the city. Among the films discussed are Peeping Tom (1960); Performance (1970); Sans Soleil (1983); and Amores perros (2000).
$8.00 paper 978-1-905674-31-2 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-32-9 april 008 256 pages Wallflower Press
The Image and the Witness
Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture
Edited by Frances Guerin and Roger Hallas The Image and the Witness is an interdisciplinary collection of original essays concerning the ethical stakes of the image in our visually saturated age. It explores the role of the material image in bearing witness to historical events and the visual representation of witnesses to collective trauma. This unique collection debates post-traumatic memory, documentary ethics, embodied vision, and the recycling of images, and discusses works by Chris Marker, Errol Morris, Derek Jarman, Doris Salcedo, Gerhard Richter, and Boris Mikhailov.
$6.00 paper 978-1-905674-19-0 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-20-6 007 224 pages / 20 illus. nonfictions Wallflower Press
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A Family Affair
Cinema Calls Home
Edited by Murray Pomerance The family has been a central theme in movies since the earliest days of the medium. This new anthology brings the subject into sharp focus, collecting a range of multidisciplinary perspectives on the role of the family onscreen. Discussing a wide range of films—House of Strangers (1949); Mary Poppins (1964); Superstar (1987); The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); Brokeback Mountain (2005); and more—this study addresses not only the nature of family values in cinema but also the family nature of cinematic production in Hollywood. This volume provides a penetrating view of the oldest and most influential social institution as depicted on screen.
$8.00 paper 978-1-905674-55-8 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-56-5 april 008 256 pages Wallflower Press
Direct Cinema
Observational Documentary and the Politics of the Sixties
Dave Saunders Direct Cinema is the first major study of the pivotal “direct cinema” documentary movement of 1960s America. Using lightweight cameras and synchronised sound, filmmakers like Robert Drew, D.A. Pennebaker, and Frederick Wiseman intimately documented such events as John F. Kennedy’s bid for the White House (Primary, 1960), Bob Dylan’s 1965 British tour (Don’t Look Back, 1965), and the tune-in and drop-out ethos of hippy culture (Woodstock, 1970). This new volume provides a comprehensive account of these vastly influential yet politically underappreciated films and connects them with the greater artistic and political impulses of the sixties.
$6.00 paper 978-1-905674-15-2 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-16-9 007 224 pages / 20 illus. nonfictions Wallflower Press
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FILM CRITICISM Shakespeare on Film
Such Things as Dreams are Made Of
Carolyn Jess-Cooke Since the birth of Shakespearean cinema in 1899, there have been close to 500 film adaptations of the Bard’s work in which he has been taken to outer space, downtown Mumbai, and feudal Japan. Exploring this astonishing array from early cinema to the present, Shakespeare on Film analyzes Shakespearean cinema in four major contexts: performance, adaptation, film style, and popularization, interpreting his unique ability to penetrate cultures, mindsets, and languages across the world.
$0.00 paper 978-1-905674-14-5 007 144 pages / 10 illus. short cuts Wallflower Press
Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-first Century
Edited by Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray
“Genuinely new and illuminating.” —Peter S. Donaldson, MIT
John Mills and British Cinema
Masculinity, Identity and Nation
Gill Plain Although his film career extended from the early days of sound to the British New Wave and beyond, Sir John Mills is nonetheless remembered as the archetypal hero of the Second World War. Regarded as an English “everyman,” he came to represent a newly democratic masculine ideal. This penetrating study asks how was it possible for an actor to embody national identity. By exploring the cultural contexts in which Mills and the nation became synonymous, Gill Plain offers a new perspective on forty years of cinema and social change.
$0.00 paper 978-0-7486-2108-8 $85.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2107-1 006 256 pages / 31 illus. Edinburgh University Press
From Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet to Michael Radford’s Merchant of Venice and Peter Babakitis’ Henry V, this volume analyzes major and obscure productions, touching on advertisements, postcolonial reinventions, and mass media citations, arguing that Shakespeare is a magnet for debate over style, literary authority, nationality, ethnicity, and gender. Considering the Derry Film Initiative Hamlet, the New Zealand Maori Merchant of Venice, and the television documentary In Search of Shakespeare, this collection innovatively assesses the continuing relevance of Shakespeare.
$0.00 paper 0-7486-2351-5 $80.00 cloth 0-7486-2350-7 007 224 pages Edinburgh University Press
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The Unsilvered Screen
Surrealism on Film
Edited by Graeme Harper and Rob Stone Leading critics from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada, and Japan offer fresh, provocative views of canonical surrealist works from Luis Buñuel, Jan Svankmajer, and David Lynch. They also offer lively analyses of surrealist aspects of contemporary Japanese, Russian, and British cinema, Disney animation, digital cinema, and documentary, exploring the vibrant effect and considerable legacy of surrealism on film.
$5.00 paper 978-1-904764-86-1 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-87-8 006 256 pages Wallflower Press
Filmosophy
Daniel Frampton
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
“[An] elegant, deftly argued book... Essential.” —Choice
The Lord of the Rings
Popular Culture in Global Context
Edited by Ernest Mathijs
Foreword by Brian Sibley
Filmosophy is a provocative new manifesto for a radically philosophical way of understanding cinema. It coalesces twentieth-century ideas of film as thought (from Hugo Münsterberg to Gilles Deleuze) into a practical theory of “film-thinking,” arguing that film style conveys poetic ideas through a constant dramatic “intent” about the characters, spaces, and events of film. Discussing contemporary film-makers such as Béla Tarr and the Dardenne brothers, this timely contribution to the study of film and philosophy will provoke debate among audiences and filmmakers alike.
FILMOSOPHY® is a registered U.S. trademark owned by Valentin Stoilov (www.filmosophy.com) for educational services in the field of motion picture history theory and production. Mr. Stoilov is not the source or origin of this book and has not sponsored or endorsed it or its author.
$4.00 paper 978-1-904764-84-7 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-85-4 006 256 pages Wallflower Press
This volume brings together leading scholars in the fields of media and film studies to explore the various strategies and implications underlying the global presence of Lord of the Rings. Chapters address how the trilogy has been planned and received as a media business; how it was received by critics and fans; and how spin-offs, franchises, associated media, and indeed the text itself have been affected by its success and appeal.
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-82-3 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-83-0 006 224 pages Wallflower Press
Exploring Visual Culture
Definitions, Concepts, Contexts
Edited by Matthew Rampley An introduction to the study of visual culture, this book offers a view of ‘visual culture’ that includes images and other visual media and forms of expression, from architecture to fashion, design and the human body.
$.50 paper 978-0-7486-1845-3 006 224 pages Edinburgh University Press
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Sex and the Cinema
Tanya Krzywinska Sex and the Cinema traces the numerous factors and contexts — artistic, institutional, political, and socio-cultural — that have shaped the way that sex appears in film. Given that cinematic representations of sex have perhaps caused more controversy than any others, Krzywinska charts the cultural norms and contestations that are often diversely in play and explores forms and themes such as narrative, incest, romance, sado-masochism, and “real” sex. Films discussed include Don’t Look Now, Intolerance, The Blue Angel, Now, Voyager, Basic Instinct, Written on the Wind, Evil Dead II, Emmanuelle, A Taste of Honey, and The Night Porter.
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-73-1 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-74-8 006 224 pages / 16 illus. Wallflower Press
Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity
Narrative Time in National Contexts
David Martin-Jones
“[An] ambitious book. . . Recommended.” —Choice
Spectatorship
The Power of Looking On
Michele Aaron This book shows how cinema makes a spectacle of the everyday while turning the spectacular into something commonplace. It also muses on the consequences of our sharing in or witnessing the private or intimate acts of others and our enjoyment of events that often represent a gross break with legal and social mores.
$0.00 paper 978-1-905674-01-5 006 144 pages short cuts Wallflower Press
Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity challenges the traditional use of Deleuze’s philosophy to examine European art cinema. It explores how Deleuze can be used to analyse national identity across a range of different cinemas. Focusing on narrative time it combines a Deleuzean approach with a vast range of non-traditional material. The films discussed are contemporary and popular (either financial or cult successes), and include Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Terminator 3, Memento, Saving Private Ryan, Run Lola Run, Sliding Doors, Chaos and Peppermint Candy. Each film is examined in light of a major historical event—including 9/11, German reunification, and the Asian economic crisis—and the impact it has had on individual nations.
$4.50 paper 978-0-7486-3585-6 $85.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2244-3 008 256 pages 4 illus. Edinburgh University Press
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wallflower’s close-up series Close Up is an annual series devoted to the textual analysis of film and television.
Forthcoming
Close-Up 03
Series Edited by John Gibbs and Doug Pye
Close-Up 02
Movies and Tone / Reading Rohmer / Voices in Film
The second edition of Close-Up features pieces by Douglas Pye on how “tone” is a vital yet rarely used concept in film analysis; Jacob Leigh on the films of Eric Rohmer; and Susan Smith on the use of the human voice in narrative cinema.
$7.50 paper 978-1-905674-06-0 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-07-7 007 256 pages / 120 illus.
Weimar Cinema
Iris Luppa
Weimar Cinema examines three films of the postwar, stabilization, and prefascist period: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), People on Sunday (1929), and Kuhle Wampe (1932). Drawing on the ideas of Brecht, each chapter examines the way these films invite sophisticated readings through the use of distinct visual and narrative strategies.
The Police Series
Jonathan Bignell
The Police Series closely analyzes the mise-enscène of television programs from 1980 to 2003, including Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, NYPD Blue, Homicide: Life on the Street, and CSI.
Close-Up 01
To launch the series, Filmmakers’ Choices explores diverse areas of decision-making within film production; The Pop Song in Film offers detailed interpretations of moments in films where the pop song adopts a decisive storytelling role; Reading Buffy looks at the acclaimed television series through a close-reading approach more usually applied to films.
$5.00 / £14.50 paper 978-1-904764-57-1 $75.00 / £44.00 cloth 978-1-904764-66-3 006 256 pages / 40 illus.
Men’s Cinema
Stella Bruzzi
Men’s Cnema focuses on how film style conveys and articulates a sense of masculinity. It examines the use of mise-en-scène in classical cinema to emphasize the frequently repressed traumas of masculinity. The book then analyzes a selection of such contemporary “men’s” films as Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Raging Bull (1980), The Right Stuff (1983), and Gladiator (2000).
$9.50 paper 978-1-905674-77-0 $90.00 cloth 978-1-905674-78-7 may 008 256 pages / 40 illus.
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GENDER & FILM Sapphism on Screen
Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema
Lucille Cairns This book investigates mediations of lesbian desire in a variety of films (spanning the period (1936–2002) by male and female, French and Francophone directors. Films discussed include Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Quai des orfèvres, Louis Malle’s Milou en mai, Claude Chabrol’s La Cérémonie, André Téchiné’s Les Voleurs, and François Ozon’s Huit femmes. This study also includes analytical comparisons to Anglophone films.
$85.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2165-1 006 256 pages / 10 illus. Edinburgh University Press
Feminist Auteurs
Reading Women’s Films
Geetha Ramanathan Geetha Ramanathan examines a rich and diverse body of work that has received insufficient attention both in film studies and in feminist theory on film. Looking at individual films within the context of feminist film as a genre, Ramanathan examines works from diverse cultural traditions while paying close attention to what might be regarded as feminist in different cultural contexts. Films discussed include Vagabond, India Song, Bhaji on the Beach, Chocolat, and Daughters of the Dust.
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-69-4 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-70-0 007 224 pages / 12 illus. Wallflower Press
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FILM GENRES
New
Hollywood Science
Movies, Science, and the End of the World
Sidney Perkowitz
“An entertaining, maybe indispensable guide for film buffs everywhere.”—Booklist “A grand roundup of technical movie masterpieces . . . praising scientific accuracy (A Beautiful Mind) and exposing turkeys (Volcano).”—Los Angeles Magazine
Disaster Movies
The Cinema of Catastrophe Second Edition
Stephen Keane
“Throughout Keane’s writing is never too technical or marred with excessive film jargon but is both accessible and challenging, and his book will work in an undergraduate Film Studies course to compare and contrast specific movies from the last three decades.”—Film and History
In this entertaining book, Sidney Perkowitz discusses the portrayal of science in more than one hundred films, including scientific biographies and documentaries. Beginning with early films like Voyage to the Moon and Metropolis and concluding with more recent offerings like The Matrix, War of the Worlds, A Beautiful Mind, and An Inconvenient Truth, Perkowitz questions how much faith we can put into Hollywood’s depiction of scientists and their work; how accurately these films capture scientific fact and theory; whether cataclysms like our collision with a comet can actually happen; and to what extent these films influence public opinion about science and the future.
$4.95 / £14.95 cloth 978-0-231-14280-9 007 256 pages / 40 illus.
Stephen Keane’s history of the disaster genre offers a detailed analysis of films such as The Towering Inferno, Independence Day, Titanic, and The Day After Tomorrow. He looks at the ways in which disaster movies can be read in relation to both contextual considerations and the increasing commercial demands of contemporary Hollywood. In this second edition, he adds new material regarding cinematic representations of disaster in the wake of 9/11 and an analysis of disaster movies in light of recent natural disasters.
$0.00 paper 978-1-905674-03-9 006 144 pages short cuts Wallflower Press
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FILM GENRES
Romantic Comedy
Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre
Tamar Jeffers McDonald
“This volume crams everything from Doris Day to The 40 Year-Old Virgin. Each of its five broad catagories is examined over the lifespan of the genre and includes valuable case studies. Highly recommended.”—Empire
Crime Films
Investigating the Scene
Kirsten Moana Thompson
“Deals with the amazing variations on crime films down the ages. The gangster and detective type proliferate, and other aspects cover details of recent developments in the erotic thriller and film noir. The book is perceptively and intelligently written.”—Cinema Retro
Romantic Comedy offers an introduction to the analysis of a popular but overlooked film genre. The book provides an overview of Hollywood’s romantic comedy conventions, examining iconography, narrative patterns, and ideology. Chapters discuss important subgroupings within the genre: screwball sex comedy and the radical romantic comedy of the 1970s. A final chapter traces the lasting influence of these earlier forms within current romantic comedies. Films include: Pillow Talk (1959), Annie Hall (1977), and You’ve Got Mail (1998).
$0.00 paper 978-1-905674-02-2 007 144 pages short cuts Wallflower Press
Ever since Edwin S. Porter’s Great Train Robbery in 1903, audiences have been fascinated by films about crime and the world as seen from both sides of the law. Crime Films delves into recent developments in erotic thrillers like Basic Instinct (1992) and neo-noirs like Body Heat (1981) and LA Confidential (1997), and includes close readings of enduring crime films, from The Silence of the Lambs (1991) to Seven (1995) as well as such television series as Hill Street Blues, Homicide, and CSI.
$0.00 paper 978-1-905674-13-8 007 144 pages / 10 illus. short cuts Wallflower Press
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Film Noir
From Berlin to Sin City
Mark Bould This compelling volume explores the murky world of a genre responsible for many of film’s most enduring images. Mark Bould discusses problems of definition and the often ambiguous nature of film noir and considers modern films that could be called neo-noir. Iconic and enduring, film noir attracted great stars (Bogart, Bacall, Mitchum, and Lancaster), and many of the best directors of the era (Wilder, Lang, Preminger, Hawks, Siodmak, and Welles). This book is an indispensable guide to this popular genre.
$0.00 paper 978-1-904764-50-2 006 144 pages / 12 illus. short cuts Wallflower Press
Films of Fact
A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television
Timothy Boon Britain has long been recognized for its contribution to documentary cinema, yet its tradition of acclaimed scientific and medical documentaries remains largely unrecognized in the literature on nonfiction film. Films of Fact is the first in-depth history of the genre, which began with amateur hobbyists in the early twentieth century, played a key role in postwar health programs, and became a treasured part of popular culture with BBC2’s Horizon and the programming of Channel 4. Films of Fact is a landmark text on a rarely discussed element of British popular culture.
$8.00 paper 978-1-905674-37-4 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-38-1 007 224 pages nonfictions Wallflower Press
Teen Movies
American Youth on Screen
Timothy Shary Timothy Shary looks at the development of the teen movie — the rebellion, the romance, the sex, and the horror — up to contemporary portrayals of ever-changing youth. Films studied include Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass, Carrie, The Breakfast Club, and American Pie.
$0.00 paper 978-1-904764-49-6 006 144 pages 12 illus. short cuts Wallflower Press
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Forthcoming
The American Western
Stephen McVeigh
“McVeigh’s work lays claim to an impressive, interdisciplinary field of study. It should be read, taught, and appreciated.”—Eric Sandeen, University of Wyoming
Crossing New Europe
Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie
Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli This comprehensive study of the European road cinema examines such crucial issues as individual and national identity crises and phenomena such as displacement, diaspora, exile, migration, nomadism, and tourism in postmodern, post-Berlin Wall Europe. Drawing on the work of Said, Hall, Shields, Urry, Bauman, Deleuze and Guattari, and other critical theorists, Crossing New Europe adopts a broad interpretation of “Europe” and discusses directors and films who have long been associated with the road movie, such as Wim Wenders (Alice in the Cities, Lisbon Story) and Aki Kaurismäki (Leningrad Cowboys Go America! ), and other more recent contributions such as Run Lola Run, Dear Diary, and The Last Resort.
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-67-0 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-68-7 006 224 pages / 12 illus. Wallflower Press
This wide-ranging book illuminates the importance of the Western in American history, exploring the interconnections between the Western in both literature and film in the twentieth century. Structured chronologically, McVeigh traces the evolution of the Western as a uniquely American form. He argues that America’s frontier past was quickly transformed into a set of symbols and myths, an American metanarrative that came to underpin much of the “American century.” He details how and why this process occurred, the form and function of Western myths and symbols, the evolution of this mythology, and its subversions and reconstructions throughout twentieth-century American history.
$6.00 paper 978-0-7486-2141-5 $85.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2140-8 september 008 256 pages Edinburgh University Press
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Forthcoming
Film Genre
Hollywood and Beyond
Barry Langford Barry Langford shows how notions of genre help shape the ways that filmmakers, critics and audiences view films and how the often complex scholarly debates around genre reflect important differences in the ways cinema is understood in relation to its social and historical contexts. The book encourages students to interrogate and broaden received ideas about genre.
$5.00 paper 978-0-7486-1903-0 $85.00 cloth 978-0-7486-1902-3 006 320 pages Edinburgh University Press
Studying Videogames
Julian McDougall and Wayne O’Brien Studying Videogames is the first book to look at videogames as media texts. Written specifically for advanced level/undergraduate students it covers a broad range of games, industry contexts, and research findings. The book challenges conventional mediaanalysis approaches; sets out the history, present, and future of games; and interrogates claims about their “social effects.” Featuring student activities, interviews with key players in the industry, and an extended case study of the Grand Theft Auto cycle, Studying Videogames seriously engages with this powerful media.
$9.50 paper 978-1-903663-84-4 $90.00 cloth 978-1-903663-85-1 june 008 192 pages / 12 illus. Auteur Publishing
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CULTOGRAPHIES by WALLFLOWER PRESS
New New
This Is Spinal Tap
Ethan de Seife A documentary, a mockumentary, indeed a rockumentary—Rob Reiner’s phony road movie following the exploits of a fictitional heavy metal band has long been celebrated as a comedy landmark. This book is the first attempt to provide a sustained critical appraisal of the film’s success, addressing general cinephiles and devoted Tapheads alike. The study considers the film within the context of cult cinema, real and mock documentaries, Hollywood comedies and musicals, and the history of rock music. This detailed stylistic and comic analysis offers new insights into the ardent Cult of Tap.
$15.00 paper 978-1-905674-49-7 007 144 pages cultographies Wallflower Press
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Jeffrey Weinstock In a surprisingly short period of time, The Rocky Horror Picture Show grew from a fringe musical into a celebrated cinematic experience notorious for its midnight features and outrageous audience participation. This study tells the extraordinary trajectory of the film from its initial reception to its eventual cult status. Focusing on the film’s nonconformist sexual politics and glam-rock attitude, this volume explores Rocky Horror’s emphasis on the theatrical body (tattooed, cross-gendered, and flamboyant), and its defiant queering of cinema history.
$15.00 paper 978-1-905674-50-3 007 144 pages cultographies Wallflower Press
New
Donnie Darko
Geoff King With its gothic tale of a troubled teen haunted by visions of a figure in a rabbit suit, Donnie Darko was one of the first cult movie phenomena of the twenty-first century and gripped the imagination of Gen X teenagers across the world. The film also made debut director Richard Kelly a hot property in Hollywood before he reached his thirtieth birthday. This study narrates the film’s evolution from a box-office curiosity to a word-of-mouth sensation, culminating in the release of the recent director’s cut of the film, and includes discussion of fans’ reactions to the film’s enigmatic conclusion.
$15.00 paper 978-1-905674-51-0 007 144 pages cultographies Wallflower Press
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FILM REFERENCE
New
Researcher’s Guide to British Cinemagazines
Edited by Emily Crosby and Linda Kaye This comprehensive guide tells the history of the British magazine film for the first time, detailing its use for entertainment, information, and propaganda. It also explores industrial concerns through such series as This Week in Britain, London Line, and Commonwealth Teleview.
$7.50 paper 978-0-901299-78-9 008 200 pages / 25 illus. Wallflower Press, Distributor of the British Universities Film & Video Council
TCM International Film Guide 2008
The Definitive Annual Review of World Cinema
Edited by Ian Haydn Smith
“The day I was hired as a film critic, I went to the bookstore and came home with a copy of the International Film Guide, and the current edition has been on my shelf ever since. This annual volume is unique and invaluable.”—Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and presenter of Ebert & Roeper at the Movies
Researcher’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film, Television, and Radio
Edited by Luke McKernan, Eve-Marie Oesterlan, and Olwen Terris This guide brings together compact histories of Shakespeare across different media and offers descriptions of archives and their use.
$7.50 paper 978-0-901299-76-6 august 008 250 pages / 25 illus. Wallflower Press, Distributor of the British Universities Film & Video Council
First published in 1963, the International Film Guide enjoys an unrivalled reputation as the most authoritative and trusted resource on world cinema. Now relaunched by Wallflower Press, the 2008 (44th) edition will cover the films and festivals of 2006 and 2007 in a “World Survey” section that encompasses the output of 110 countries. It includes directors of the year; a world box office survey; annual top 10 charts; a guide to film festivals; award reports and details; The Global Directory; and contact details for film archives, bookstores, magazines, and additional businesses in the industry.
$9.95 paper 978-1-905674-61-9 008 440 pages / 200 illus.
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FILM REFERENCE Moving Image Knowledge and Access
The BUFVC Handbook
Edited by Luke McKernan In its fourth edition, this handbook includes a directory of organizations and resources associated with education, film and video, and the media, and it features articles on issues such as online delivery of moving images and copyright and a host of useful information on film and video formats, digital media, and media legislation.
$40.00 paper 978-0-901299-77-2 007 220 pages / 20 illus. Wallflower Press, Distributor of the British Universities Film & Video Council
The Researcher’s Guide
7th Edition
Sergio Angelini Listing over 700 collections in the UK, this essential volume is recognized as the researcher’s “bible.” Now pocket-sized, it is designed to integrate with the Researcher’s Guide Online Web site.
$45.00 paper 978-901299-76-5 007 242 pages / 45 illus. Wallflower Press, Distributor of the British Universities Film & Video Council
New
Sequences
Contemporary Chronophotography and Experimental Digital Art
Edited by Paul St. George This volume explores a form of contemporary art that uses sequences of images to explore ideas of space, time, movement, and duration. “Chronophotographers” first explored these ideas at the end of the nineteenth century. At the beginning of the twenty-first, artists have found that sequences offer new opportunities for exploring the aesthetics at the intersection of time and space. This book contains a number of illustrated essays by international critics and theorists and discusses the work of a wide range of artists engaged in contemporary chronophotography.
$4.50 paper 978-1-905674-76-3 april 008 256 pages imagetime Wallflower Press
Film Curatorship
Archives, Museums, and the Digital Marketplace
Edited by Paolo Cherchi Usai, David Francis, Alexander Horwath, and Michael Loebenstein Film Curatorship offers neither a scholarly analysis nor a definitive answer to aesthetic as well as technological, economic, and political issues. The editors of this volume share their concerns, visions, and strategies in order to foster an open debate on the relationship of film to other forms of the moving image, as well as its presentation and preservation.
$.50 paper 978-3-901644-24-5 june 008 180 pages Wallflower Press, Distributor for the Austrian Film Museum
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INTERNATIONAL FILM
New
Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films
Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility
Rey Chow
“[Chow] captivates us with her challenging and refreshing arguments. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal
China on Screen
Cinema and Nation
Chris J. Berry and Mary Farquhar
“A standard reference for students of cinema studies...eminently adoptable for the clasroom.” —Nations & Nationalism
What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining specific to a particular culture in transition? Rey Chow explores these questions through nine contemporary Chinese directors (Chen Kaige, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou, Ann Hui, Peter Chan, Wayne Wang, Ang Lee, Li Yang, and Tsai Ming-liang) whose accomplishments have become historic events in world cinema. By naming these films sentimental fabulations—screen artifacts of cultural becoming with irreducible aesthetic, conceptual, and speculative logics of their own—Chow presents Chinese cinema first and foremost as an invitation to the pleasures and challenges of critical thinking.
$.50 / £1.00 paper 978-0-231-13333-3 $7.50 / £4.50 cloth 978-0-231-13332-6 007 288 pages film and culture series
Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of directors and actors, including Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li, Wong Kar-wai, and Ang Lee. Among the issues and themes covered are the tension between operatic and realist modes, male and female star images, transnational production and circulation of Chinese films, the image of the good foreigner—all related to different ways of imagining nation.
$6.00 / £17.00 paper 978-0-231-13707-2 $67.50 cloth 978-0-231-13706-5 006 336 pages film and culture series
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INTERNATIONAL FILM
New
Asian Cinemas
A Reader and Guide
Edited by Dimitris Eleftheriotis and Gary Needham This guide refuses to cast Asian cinema as a gallery of exotic and foreign curiosities. It places “unfamiliar” case studies within the context of “familiar” areas of critical discourse to investigate the limitations of western theoretical models and paradigms. Case studies include Hong Kong and Turkish cinema, Hindi melodramas, Godzilla films, Taiwanese directors, Fifth Generation Chinese cinema, and the works of Ozu and Bruce Lee.
$0.00 paper 978-0-7486-1777-7 $100.00 cloth 978-0-7486-1776-0 006 488 pages Edinburgh University Press
Representing Atrocity in Taiwan
The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film
Sylvia Li-chun Lin In 1945, Taiwan was placed under the administrative control of the Republic of China, and after two years, accusations of corruption and a failing economy sparked a local protest that was brutally quashed by the Kuomintang government. The February Twenty-Eighth (or 2/28) Incident led to four decades of martial law that became known as the White Terror. During this period, talk of 2/28 was forbidden and all dissent violently suppressed, but since the lifting of martial law in 1987, this long-buried history has been revisited through commemoration and narrative, cinema, and remembrance. Sylvia Li-chun Lin conducts a close analysis of the political, narrative, and ideological structures involved in the fictional and cinematic representations of the 2/28 Incident and White Terror. She assesses the role of individual and collective memory and institutionalized forgetting, while underscoring the dangers of re-creating a historical past and the risks of trivialization. She also compares her findings with scholarly works on the Holocaust and the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Japan, questioning the politics of forming public and personal memories and the political teleology of “closure.”
$40.00 / £.50 cloth 978-0-231-14360-8 007 240 pages
The Cinema of Prayoga
Indian Experimental Film and Video 1913–2006
Edited by Brad Butler and Karen Mirza NO.W.HERE LAB has reseached a rich vein of visual arts–based work from the early twentieth century onward that, despite the huge popularity of Indian cinema, remains relatively unknown. This project traces a history of powerful and personal filmmaking outside of the industrialized system.
$4.00 paper 978-0-955388-10-1 007 144 pages
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global chinese culture
Forthcoming
Chávez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
A Case Study of Politics and the Media
Rod Stoneman The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is a powerful film about the charismatic and controversial Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. It charts the attempt to overthrow him in April 2002 and provides an eyewitness account of his extraordinary return to power some forty-eight hours later. This book, which includes a DVD of this electrifying documentary, not only sheds light on contemporary politics in Latin America but also focuses on important issues in documentary filmmaking.
$9.50 paper plus DVD 978-1-905674-74-9 july 008 192 pages / 12 illus. nonfictions Wallflower Press
The Cinematic Tango
Contemporary Argentine Film
Tamara L. Falicov The Cinematic Tango explores the cultural politics of over sixty years of filmmaking in Argentina. From the 1940s when film was a successful studio product to the 1980s post-dictatorship period when national cinema was utilized as a public relations tool, Tamara L. Falicov explores how national culture on film has been shaped, articulated, and debated.
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-92-2 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-93-9 006 224 pages Wallflower Press
Remapping World Cinema
Identity, Culture and Politics in Film
Edited by Stephanie Dennison and Song Hwee Lim Remapping World Cinema explores many of the key critical and theoretical approaches and debates, including race, stardom, and postcolonialism, as well as national cinemas’ relationship with Hollywood. Covering a broad range of films, the authors examine the cinemas of Africa, East Asia, India, and Latin, Central, and South America as well as the various territories of Europe.
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-62-5 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-63-2 006 224 pages Wallflower Press
A Cinema of Contradiction
Spanish Film in the 1960s
Sally Faulkner A Cinema of Contradiction, the first book to focus in depth on the 1960s in Spain, analyzes key artistic movements and six films that reflected and interpreted transformations in Spanish cinema and society.
$75.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2160-6 006 224 pages Edinburgh University Press
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INTERNATIONAL FILM
24 frames series from wallfl o w e r p r e s s
Each volume presents twenty-four concise and insightful essays that consider one significant film from the region
The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East
Edited by Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Preface by Abbas Kiarostami
The Cinema of Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Edited by Birgit Beumers
Preface by Sergei Bodrov
The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East explores the established film cultures of Turkey, Egypt, and Israel, and the nascent cinemas of Palestine and Syria. Selected films include Cairo Station (Egypt, 1958), The Runner (Iran, 1989), Once Upon a Time, Beriut (Lebanon, 1994), Ten (Iran, 2002), and Uzak (Turkey, 2003).
$9.50 paper 978-1-905674-10-7 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-11-4 007 288 pages / 24 illus.
This volume offers insight into the development of Soviet film from a propaganda tool to a means of entertainment in the Stalin era; the rise of “dissident” arthouse cinema in the 1960s to the films of the glasnost era; and recent Russian blockbusters. Films discussed include Strike (1925), Earth (1930), Ivan’s Childhood (1962), Mother and Son (1997), and Brother (1997).
$9.50 paper 978-1904764-98-34 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-99-1 006 288 pages
The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand
Edited by Geoff Mayer and Keith Beattie
Preface by John Hughes
The Cinema of the Balkans
Edited by Dina Iordanova
Preface by Dusan Makavejev
This book celebrates Australia and New Zealand’s feature films as well as key documentaries, shorts and independent films. Films and directors discussed include: The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir, 1982), The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993), Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001) and Rabbit Proof Fence (Philip Noyce, 2002).
$9.50 paper 978-1-904764-96-0 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-97-7 006 288 pages
These films represent the rich and diverse culture of the Balkans and reveal the stylistic and thematic affinities of a region often perceived as a disconnected cultural space. Films include: Stella (Greece, 1955), Goat’s Horn (Bulgaria, 1972), When I Am Dead and Pale (Yugoslavia, 1969), The Red Horse (Yugoslavia, 1984), Stone Wedding (Romania, 1971), and Walter Defends Sarajevo (Yugoslavia, 1972).
$9.50 paper 978-1-904764-80-9 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-81-6 006 288 pages
The Cinema of Canada
Edited by Jerry White
Preface by Atom Egoyan
$7.50 paper 978-1-904764-60-1 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-61-8 006 288 pages / 24 illus.
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New
Vision On
Film, Television, and the Arts in Britain
John Wyver Vision On sheds light on one of British television’s most innovative contributions to broadcasting—its coverage of the arts, chronicling the long history of collaboration between broadcasters and the Arts Council. The arts were central to many of the earliest public broadcasting documentaries, and by the 1980s Channel 4 and the Arts Council had redefined the relationship of the arts and the media by commissioning exclusive and innovative films. John Wyver illuminates the vanguard role the arts have played in the history of British public broadcasting and locates the place of arts broadcasting in today’s multichannel, multi-media world.
$8.00 paper 978-1-905674-39-8 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-40-4 007 224 pages nonfictions Wallflower Press
Fires Were Started
British Cinema and Thatcherism Second Edition
Edited by Lester Friedman This book offers a provocative analysis of the responses of British film to the policies and political ideology of the conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher, and it represents an original and stimulating contribution to our knowledge of British cinema. This second edition includes revised and updated contributions from some of the leading scholars of British cinema, including Thomas Elsaesser, Peter Wollen, and Manthia Diawara, and discusses prominent filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg, and Stephen Frears. Films discussed include Distant Voices, Still Lives; My Beautiful Launderette; Chariots of Fire; and Drowning by Numbers.
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-71-7 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-72-4 006 256 pages Wallflower Press
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INTERNATIONAL FILM
Forthcoming Forthcoming
The Media in Scotland
Neil Blain and David Hutchison This book brings together academics, writers, and politicians to explore the range and nature of the media in Scotland. It includes chapters on the separate histories of the press, broadcasting, and cinema; the representation and construction of Scotland; the contemporary communications environment; and the languages used in the media. Other chapters consider television drama, soap opera, broadcast comedy, gender, the media and politics, race and ethnicity, gender, popular music, sports, and new technologies, the place of Gaelic, and current issues in screen fiction.
$.50 paper 978-0-7486-2800-1 $95.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2799-8 july 008 320 pages Edinburgh University Press
Contemporary British Cinema
From Heritage to Horror
James Leggott Contemporary British Cinema: From Heritage to Horror offers a detailed analysis of British film culture from 1997 to the present. Using a wide range of films as case studies—from Love Actually (2003) and The Queen (2006) to Dirty Pretty Things (2002) and Hot Fuzz (2007)—the book examines the ways in which recent British filmmaking might be regarded as distinctive, relevant, and successful. Ongoing questions about the state of the film industry and the significance of particular genres (such as the romantic comedy, the heritage drama, and the horror film) are placed within wider debates of national cinema.
$.00 paper 978-1-905674-71-8 july 008 144 pages / 12 illus. short cuts Wallflower Press
Contemporary World Cinema
Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and South Asia
Shohini Chaudhuri Highlighting transnational and cross-cultural structures, influences and themes, this book offers case studies of Scandinavian, Iranian, Hong Kong, and Indian cinema in addition to close readings of twelve landmark films, including Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen, Samira Makhmalbaf’s The Apple, and Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood For Love.
$5.00 paper 978-0-7486-1799-9 $75.00 cloth 978-0-7486-1798-2 006 200 pages Edinburgh University Press
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Forthcoming
The French New Wave
A New Look
Naomi Greene The French New Wave was perhaps the biggest—and briefest—explosion in the history of world cinema, with over one hundred French directors shooting debut features between 1958 and 1964. Its aftershocks are still being felt today. This volume begins by tracing the social and cultural changes of postwar France that gave birth to the New Wave, then examines in detail the careers of artists like Alain Renais and Jean-Luc Godard.
$0.00 paper 978-1-905674-12-1 007 144 pages / 10 illus. short cuts Wallflower Press
German Expressionist Cinema
The World of Light and Shadow
Ian Roberts Before Hollywood’s golden age, German expressionist film was arguably the most important cinematic movement in the medium’s history. These “symphonies of . . . iridescent movement” of Weimar cinema provide some of cinema’s most iconic images. Its vivid contrasts and dark spaces constitute a major influence on Hollywood classics such as Citizen Kane (1941) and Sunset Blvd. (1950). This volume offers insights into the technical and thematic developments of the Weimar film, covering classics such as The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920), Nosferatu (1922), and Asphalt (1929).
$.00 paper 978-1-905674-60-2 june 008 144 pages short cuts Wallflower Press
New
Reading the French New Wave
Critics, Writers, and Art Cinema in France
Dorota Ostrowska French New Wave directors such as JeanLuc Godard and Alain Resnais permanently shifted cinema’s aesthetic horizons by incorporating the narrative complexities of emerging modernist literature. This volume is the first title to comprehensively analyze the link between the French New Wave and the New Novel.
$8.00 paper 978-1-905674-57-2 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-58-9 008 256 pages Wallflower Press
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INTERNATIONAL FILM
Forthcoming
Widescreen
Watching. Real. People. Elsewhere.
Mark Cousins Traveling to Britain, Europe, Iran, India, and Mexico, Mark Cousins charts the social trends and aesthetic implications of modern cinema’s major new developments: Asian filmmaking’s rise in popularity; the breakthrough of documentaries; digitization and DVD and their role in reviving film history and revolutionizing film projection; the shift toward the real and the visually grainy; and the triumph of animation, which has become more popular than at any time since Disney. This volume constitutes a perceptive and timely account of the creative dynamics of contemporary global cinema.
$5.00 paper 978-1-905674-62-6 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-79-4 july 008 224 pages / 16 illus. Wallflower Press
Talking Movies
Contemporary World Filmmakers in Interview
Jason Wood
Preface by Geoff Andrew
Jason Wood has collected interviews with directors whose work has defined how images are processed and appreciated by modern audiences. These pioneers frankly discuss their craft and the social, political, and technological forces that inform it: Laurent Cantet, Robert Guédiguian, and Bertrand Tavernier (France); David Gordon Green, Hal Hartley, and Richard Linklater (USA); Alejandro González Iñárritu and Carlos Reygadas (Mexico); Stephen Frears and Andrew Kötting (UK); Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey); Atom Egoyan (Canada); Suzanne Bier (Denmark); Tran Anh Hung (Vietnam); Samira Makhmalbaf (Iran); Elia Suleiman (Palestine); and Lucrecia Martel (Argentina).
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-90-8 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-91-5 006 224 pages Wallflower Press
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FILM DIRECTORS
New New
The Impossible David Lynch
Todd McGowan
“An intellectually poignant, theoretically sophisticated, and erudite presentation of David Lynch’s films.”—Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich
Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony
Richard Allen
“Richard Allen is without doubt the only theoretician of the cinema today about whom one can say unequivocally that he knows Hitchcock’s films as well as the creator himself. He has also found, with ‘romantic irony,’ one of the best possible terms for making Hitchcock’s singular genius shine.”—Raymond Bellour, film critic and theoretician
Todd McGowan launches a provocative exploration of weirdness and fantasy in David Lynch’s groundbreaking oeuvre. Considering the filmmaker’s entire career, McGowan examines Lynch’s play with fantasy and traces the political, cultural, and existential impact of his unique style. Each chapter discusses the idea of impossibility in one of Lynch’s films, including the critically acclaimed Blue Velvet and The Elephant Man; the densely plotted Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive; the cult favorite Eraserhead; and the commercially unsuccessful Dune. McGowan engages with theorists from the “golden age” of film studies (Christian Metz, Laura Mulvey, and Jean-Louis Baudry) and with the writings of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Hegel. By using Lynch’s weirdness as a point of departure, McGowan adds a new dimension to the field of auteur studies and reveals Lynch to be the source of a new and radical conception of fantasy.
$5.50 / £15.00 paper 978-0-231-13955-7 $7.50 / £4.50 cloth 978-0-231-13954-0 007 280 pages film and culture series
In a new interpretation of the director’s work, Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance and to forge a distinctive worldview—the amoral outlook of the romantic ironist or aesthete. He describes in detail how Hitchcock’s characteristic tone is achieved through a titillating combination of suspense and black humor that subverts the moral framework of the romantic thriller, and a meticulous approach to visual style that articulates the lure of human perversity even as the ideal of romance is being deliriously affirmed.
$4.50 / £14.50 paper 978-0-231-13575-7 $74.50 / £44.00 cloth 978-0-231-13574-0 007 328 pages film and culture series
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FILM DIRECTORS
New New
Ingmar Bergman Revisited
Performance, Cinema, and the Arts
Edited by Maaret Koskinen
Foreward by Liv Ullman
Building Bridges
The Cinema of Jean Rouch
Edited by Joram ten Brink
Preface by Michael Renov
Building Bridges is the first title to fully explore the work and legacy of French documentary maker Jean Rouch. Comfortable in front of the camera as well as behind it, Rouch made numerous renowned sociological films about French and francophone African culture. His playful documentaries also make him the spiritual ancestor of the filmmakers Nick Broomfield and Michael Moore. This study contains more than twenty new essays from an international cast of filmmakers, film critics, academics, and actors discussing Rouch’s massive contribution to ethnographic filmmaking, including films such as Les Maitres fous (1955), Le Pyramide humaine (1961), and Chronique d’un été (1961).
$9.50 paper 978-1-905674-47-3 $90.00 cloth 978-1-905674-48-0 007 288 pages nonfictions Wallflower Press
Ingmar Bergman Revisited is a collection of new essays on the legacy of one of cinema’s most towering figures. Moving beyond simple auteurist readings of Bergman as a cinematic artist, these writings evaluate the theatrical and literary sides of Bergman’s work up to his last film, Saraband (2003). Several essays incorporate research from Bergman’s own personal archive. Among the subjects discussed are Bergman’s stage adaptations of Shakespeare, his fascination with still photography and issues of identity, and the influence of philosophy and psychology on his work.
$8.00 paper 978-1-905674-33-6 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-34-3 007 256 pages Wallflower Press
Two Films by Owen Land
Owen Land
Edited by Mark Webber
Two Films by Owen Land features the illustrated scripts to the films Wide Angle Saxon and On the Marriage Broker Joke. It also includes detailed footnotes that untangle the films’ elaborate web of references by Owen Land (formerly known as George Landow), one of the most original and celebrated American filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s.
$15.00 paper 978-0-954856-91-5 006 136 pages / 75 illus. Wallflower Press, Distributor for Lux’
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New New
The Cinema of John Sayles
Lone Star
Mark Bould John Sayles is an inspiration to independent filmmakers in America and beyond as living proof that directors can make politically engaged work outside the Hollywood mainstream. Sayles’s films from the 1980s were the counterpunch to the special effects and blockbuster aesthetics of the Star Wars and Spielberg era. The Cinema of John Sayles closely follows the director’s career with analysis of all his films, including Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980); The Brother from Another Planet (1984); Matewan (1987); and Sunshine State (2003).
$5.00 paper 978-1-905674-27-5 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-28-2 008 224 pages
The Cinema of Neil Jordan
Dark Carnival
Carole Zucker
Preface by Stephen Rea
Neil Jordan’s diverse work has spanned gothic horror (The Company of Wolves, 1984; Interview With the Vampire, 1994), Irish history (Michael Collins, 1996), literary adaptation (The End of the Affair, 1999), and sexual identity (The Crying Game, 1992; Breakfast on Pluto, 2005), all the while retaining a distinctive flair for fantasy and the carnivalesque. The Cinema of Neil Jordan discusses his entire output as part of the first comprehensive study of this leading Irish director, looking beyond ideological and national concerns and viewing his films through the prism of Celtic folklore, fairy tales, gothicism, romanticism, and postmodernism.
$5.00 paper 978-1-905674-41-1 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-42-8 008 224 pages
The Cinema of Todd Haynes
All That Heaven Allows
Edited by James Morrison
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-77-9 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-78-6 006 224 pages
The Cinema of Ang Lee
The Other Side of the Screen
Whitney Crothers Dilley
$6.00 paper 978-1-905674-08-4 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-09-1 007 224 pages / 20 illus.
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ˇ The Cinema of Jan Svankmajer
Dark Alchemy
Edited by Peter Hames ˇ The Cinema of Jan Svankmajer explores the legacy of this legendary Czech surrealist filmmaker, a key influence on such directors as Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton and one of the greatest animators in cinema history. This updated second edition—still ˇ the only full-length study of Svankmajer’s work—features contributions from scholars and colleagues within the Czech surrealist movement as well as a new chapter on ˇ Svankmajer’s feature films and an extended interview with the director himself.
$5.00 paper 978-1-905674-45-9 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-46-6 008 224 pages
The Cinema of Lars von Trier
Authenticity and Artifice
Caroline Bainbridge Lars von Trier is one of the most controversial figures of contemporary European cinema. This volume analyzes the themes and motifs of the director’s work and the changes he has brought to modern film. Ever since he founded the back-to-basics Dogme philosophy of filmmaking in 1995, von Trier’s name has been tied to taboobreaking cinema. He consistently courts media controversy through films such as The Idiots (1998), with its unsimulated sex and nonconformist politics. This volume presents von Trier as one of the most daring cinematic exponents of postmodern politics and satire.
$5.00 paper 978-1-905674-43-5 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-44-2 008 224 pages
The Cinema of Terrence Malick
Poetic Visions of America 2nd edition
Edited by Hannah Patterson
$6.00 paper 978-1-905674-25-1 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-26-8 007 224 pages / 20 illus.
The Cinema of Werner Herzog
Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth
Brad Prager
$6.00 paper 978-1-905674-17-6 $80.00 cloth 978-1-905674-18-3 007 224 pages / 20 illus.
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The Cinema of David Cronenberg
From Baron of Blood to Cultural Hero
Ernest Mathijs David Cronenberg has become one of North America’s most respected movie directors. Since the early seventies, the soft-spoken Baron of Blood has attracted widespread controversy with a steady stream of shock—sex crazed parasites in Shivers (1975), exploding heads in Scanners (1981), revolutionary flesh technology in Videodrome (1983), mutating bugs in The Fly (1986), car-crash scars in Crash (1996), and psychopathic bursts of gun violence in A History of Violence (2005). This book provides an overview of Cronenberg’s films in light of their international reception.
$5.00 paper 978-1-905674-65-7 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-66-4 august 008 240 pages
The Cinema of Sally Potter
The Poetics of Performance
Sophie Mayer Sally Potter is known for her award-winning films Thriller (1979), Orlando (1992), The Tango Lesson (1997), and YES (2004). These films are widely taught and theoretically valued for their poetic vision and incisive formulations of identities in flux. Potter’s authorship comprises a fluid movement between director, screenwriter, composer, and performer. Central to this study is the politically radical potential in Potter’s interaction with the live spectator. As Orlando’s gaze engages the viewer, this book engages cinema in terms of performance studies, poetics, and feminist philosophy.
$5.00 paper 978-1-905674-67-1 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-68-8 august 008 224 pages
The Cinema of Steven Spielberg
Empire of Light
Nigel Morris
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-88-5 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-8942 006 224 pages
The Cinema of Roman Polanski
Dark Spaces of the World
Edited by John Orr and Elzbieta Ostrowska
$6.00 paper 978-1-904764-75-5 $80.00 cloth 978-1-904764-76-2 006 224 pages
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Forthcoming Forthcoming
Media in the Digital Age
John V. Pavlik
“This book offers a contemporary portrait of digital media in a treatment where big ideas are portals for the changing vessels of new media and draws on historical precedent as well as the instant lessons of Web 2.0—and beyond.” —Everette E. Dennis, Fordham Graduate School of Business
On Screenwriting
Freddie Gaffney Writers have been publishing screenwriting books for over half a century now, full of “insider tips” on how to make it big in Hollywood. Titles suggest screenwriting is an art, a craft, a skill, a business, a talent, a knack, or most simply, the ability to tell stories. It is, of course, all of these. What these books seldom do is take a complete novice through the steps of learning and understanding creative writing, be it for the Hollywood feature film or for the college video production. That is what On Screenwriting sets out to do. This volume is a practical manual that engages with the theory of the constructional process. Freddie Gaffney—lecturer and screenwriter—proffers a set of tools that makes the process more effective and the finished article more successfully executed.
$4.50 paper 978-1-903663-77-6 $80.00 cloth 978-1-903663-83-7 june 008 156 pages / 12 illus. Auteur Publishing
Digital technologies have fundamentally altered the nature and function of media in our society. Blogs, podcasting, and other forms of internet-based reporting have reinvented age-old practices of public communication, at times circumventing traditional media and challenging its privileged role as gatekeepers of news and entertainment. Some critics believe these technologies keep the public involved in an informed discourse on matters of public importance, but it isn’t clear this is happening on a large scale. Propaganda disguised as news is flourishing, and though interaction with the digital domain teaches children valuable skills, it can also expose them to grave risks. In this book John V. Pavlik critically examines our current digital innovations and their positive and negative implications.
$4.50 / £14.50 paper 978-0-231-14209-0 $74.50 / £44.00 cloth 978-0-231-14208-3 may 008 336 pages
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Dekalog 01: On The Five Obstructions
Edited by Mette Hjort Released in 2003, Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth’s agonisitic film is one of the most intriguing and significant cinematic works of recent times. This first issue in the Dekalog series, the new home for serious film criticism, brings together writers from diverse disciplinary and national backgrounds to present a case for seeing The Five Obstructions as a philosophically compelling film that tests our understanding of key psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues: the role of others in facilitating self-understanding; creativity and its relation to constraint; individual style as an artistic problem; filmmaking as a form of play; and the ethical limitations of aestheticism.
$0.00 paper 978-1-905674-75-6 008 160 pages dekalog Wallflower Press
Performing Illusions
Cinema, Special Effects, and the Virtual Actor
Dan North The camera supposedly never lies, yet film’s ability to frame, cut, and reconstruct all that passes before its lens has made cinema the most powerful medium of visual illusion. This volume examines film’s creative history of special effects and trickery, encompassing everything from George Méliès’s first trick films to modern CGI, and discussing films such as Spider-Man (2002) and the King Kong films (1933 and 2006). Evaluating the movement toward the use of computergenerated “synthespians” in films, Dan North suggests that cinematic effects should be understood not as attempts to perfectly mimic real life but as constructions of substitute realities, situating them in the cultural lineage of stage performers and illusionists.
$8.00 paper 978-1-905674-53-4 $85.00 cloth 978-1-905674-54-1 008 256 pages Wallflower Press
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New
Dubbing and Subtitling in a World Context
Edited by Gilbert Fong This volume is a collection of selected papers presented at the “International Conference on Dubbing and Subtitling in a World Context.” The growing globalization of the film industry has created a huge demand for the professional service of dubbing and subtitling. This book looks at dubbing and subtitling from a world perspective, and is a must-read for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the history and theory of subtitling.
$5.00 paper 978-962-996-356-9 april 008 320 pages Chinese University Press
Music, Sound, and Multimedia
From the Live to the Virtual
Edited by Jamie Sexton Music and sound effects have been central to a multitude of media forms throughout the twentieth century, as background accompaniment and as a main driving force of action. Yet the investigation of sonic interactions with other media forms has been largely underresearched. Music, Sound, and Multimedia uniquely studies how music and other sounds play a central part in our understanding and uses of a variety of communications media. Jamie Sexton focuses on four areas of sound and music within broader multimedia forms—music videos, video game music, performance and presentation, and production and consumption.
$.50 paper 978-0-7486-2534-5 $95.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2533-8 008 224 pages music and the moving image Edinburgh University Press
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New
Film’s Musical Moments
Edited by Ian Conrich and Estella Tincknell The authors are concerned with both the relationship between performance, music, and film and the specificity of national, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Subjects include: cinematic representations of music forms; celebrities, fan culture, and intertextuality; and the importance of the soundtrack movie.
$0.00 paper 0-7486-2345-0 $80.00 cloth 0-7486-2344-2 007 240 pages music and the moving image Edinburgh University Press
The Columbia History of American Television
Gary Edgerton
“An accessible and compelling narrative of the complicated forces that went into creating our most enigmatic of mediums.”—Ken Burns, Filmmaker
Media historian Gary R. Edgerton follows the technological developments and increasing cultural relevance of TV from its prehistory (before 1947) to the Network Era (1948– 1975) and the Cable Era (1976–1994). He begins with the laying of the first telegraph line in 1844, which gave rise to the idea that images and sounds could be transmitted over long distances. He then considers the remodeling of television’s look and purpose during World War II; the gender, racial, and ethnic components of its early broadcasts and audiences; its transformation of postwar America; and its function in the political life of the country. Edgerton concludes with a discerning look at our current Digital Era and the new forms of instantaneous communication that continue to change America’s social, political, and economic landscape.
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Forthcoming New
The Presidential Debates
Fifty Years of High Risk TV Second Edition
Alan Schroeder
“The most compulsive read in recent times on how and why we elect our national leaders.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Pens and Swords
How the American Mainstream Media Reports the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Marda Dunsky Beginning with the failed Camp David summit of July 2000 and ending with the waning of the second Palestinian uprising in the summer of 2004, Marda Dunsky takes a close look at how more than two dozen major American print and broadcast outlets have reported the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She finds that they omit two key contextual elements: the significant impact that U.S. policy has had and continues to have on the trajectory of the conflict, and the way international law and consensus have addressed the key issues of Israeli settlement and annexation policies and Palestinian refugees. She explores how reporting of the conflict routinely takes on the contours of American policy and rarely challenges the premises of this “Washington consensus.” In addition, she examines the media’s responses to allegations of biased coverage and gauges the effect that mainstream news reporting has on public opinion and U.S. foreign policy. She includes the perspectives of more than a dozen correspondents who have reported the story from the field for major American media outlets.
$7.50 / £16.00 paper 978-0-231-13349-4 $79.50 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-13348-7 008 416 pages
This wildly popular history now covers the 2000 Bush-Gore and 2004 Bush-Kerry debates, including innovations in format and press coverage, and incorporates new research into the analysis of televised debates since 1960. Alan Schroeder organizes his book according to a television production timeline, highlighting the importance of pre- and post-debate periods, as well as the live telecasts themselves. He describes production in painstaking detail, from the selection of questioners to camera angles, from makeup to lighting and set design. Televised debates represent a rare departure from well-choreographed campaigns, and with new media such as YouTube continuing to redefine form and content, the 2008 election should present the most exciting opportunities for debate yet.
$4.50 / £14.50 paper 978-0-231-14105-5 $74.50 / £44.00 cloth 978-0-231-14104-8 july 008 352 pages
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Social Issues in Television Fiction
Lesley Henderson Social Issues in Television Fiction offers lively and engaging insight into how and why socially sensitive story lines were portrayed by different TV programs from the late 1980s to today. Drawing on a series of case studies on medicine, health, illness, and social problems, the volume traces storylines from initial conception to audience reception and uses contemporary examples to link practice and theory.
$6.00 paper 978-0-7486-2532-1 $85.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2531-4 007 208 pages Edinburgh University Press
The Contemporary Television Series
Edited by Michael Hammond and Lucy Mazdon A provocative study of serial television, this book explores such influential programs as 24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER, The Sopranos, and The West Wing. Divided into history, aesthetics, and reception, chapters consider the formal and aesthetic elements of serials through issues like gender, sexuality, and national identity.
$0.00 paper 978-0-7486-1901-6 $70.00 cloth 978-0-7486-1900-9 007 272 pages Edinburgh University Press
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European Cinemas in the Television Age
Edited by Graham Roberts and Dorota Ostrowska Graham Roberts and Dorota Ostrowska radically rethink European cinema’s postwar history from the perspective of television’s impact on the culture of cinema’s production, distribution, consumption, and reception. In every European country television has transformed the economic, technological, and aesthetic terms of cinema production. Its growing popularity has drastically reshaped cinema’s audiences and forced governments to introduce policies to regulate the interaction between cinema and television. Cinematic criticism has been slow to address the impact of television, but this study recognizes its influence and offers a more authentic and richer history of European cinemas.
$0.00 paper 978-0-7486-2309-9 $80.00 cloth 978-0-7486-2308-2 007 224 pages Edinburgh University Press
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AUTHOR / TITLE INDEX
Aaron, Michele ...............................................20 Action/Adventure Films.................................... 15 Allen, Richard ..................................................39 Alternatives to Hollywood ................................ 15 Altman, Rick .................................................4, 8 American Western, The ................................... 26 Angelini, Sergio .............................................. 30 Approaches to Pop Music................................. 15 Asian Cinemas ..................................................32 Bainbridge, Caroline ...................................... 42 Battle of Britain on Screen, The........................ 6 Beattie, Keith ............................................. 11, 34 Berry, Chris J. ................................................... 31 Beumers, Birgit ...............................................34 Blain, Neil ........................................................36 Boon, Timothy ................................................25 Bould, Mark...............................................25, 41 Brink, Joram ten .............................................40 Building Bridges ...............................................40 Burnett, Mark Thornton.................................18 Butler, Brad ......................................................32 Cairns, Lucille ................................................. 22 Casetti, Francesco .............................................3 Chaudhuri, Shohini.........................................36 Chávez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 33 Children’s Comics ............................................. 15 China on Screen ............................................... 31 Chopra-Gant, Michael ..................................... 8 Chow, Rey ........................................................ 31 Cinema and History .......................................... 8 Cinema of Ang Lee, The ..................................41 Cinema of Australia and New Zealand, The ..34 Cinema of Canada, The ...................................34 Cinema of Contradiction, A .............................33 Cinema of David Cronenberg, The ..................43 Cinema of Jan Sˇvankmajer, The.................... 42 Cinema of John Sayles, The .............................41 Cinema of Lars von Trier, The ......................... 42 Cinema of Neil Jordan, The .............................41 Cinema of N. Africa and the Middle East, The34 Cinema of Prayoga, The ..................................32 Cinema of Roman Polanski, The.....................43 Cinema of Russia and the Former Soviet Union, The ....................................................................34 Cinema of Sally Potter, The .............................43 Cinema of Steven Spielberg, The.....................43 Cinema of Terrence Malick, The ..................... 42 Cinema of the Balkans, The ............................34 Cinema of Todd Haynes, The ..........................41 Cinema of Werner Herzog, The ...................... 42 Cinematic Tango, The ......................................33 Cities in Transition ............................................16 Close-Up 01.......................................................21 Close-Up 02 ......................................................21 Close-Up 03 ......................................................21 Col. Companion to Amer. History on Film, The6 Columbia History of American Television, The47 Comedy Films................................................... 15 Conrich, Ian .................................................... 47 Contemporary British Cinema .........................36 Contemporary Television Series, The...............49 Contemporary World Cinema ..........................36 Coombs, Neil ..................................................14 Cousins, Mark .................................................38 Crime Films ..................................................... 24 Crosby, Emily .................................................. 29 Crossing New Europe ...................................... 26 Davies, Cath .................................................... 15 Davis, Colin ...................................................... 9 Dawson, Anna...........................................12, 14 Dekalog 01: On The Five Obstructions ...........45 Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity ........20 Dennison, Stephanie ......................................33 de Seife, Ethan................................................ 28 Dilley, Whitney Crothers .................................41 Direct Cinema ..................................................17 Disaster Movies.................................................23 Documentary Display....................................... 11 Doherty, Thomas ..............................................3 Domaille, Kate................................................. 15 Dönmez-Colin, Gönül ....................................34 Donnie Darko .................................................. 28 Dubbing and Subtitling in a World Context...46 Dunbar, Brian .................................................. 15 Dunsky, Marda ............................................... 48 Early and Silent Cinema .................................. 15 Edgerton, Gary ............................................... 47 Electric Sounds ...................................................5 Eleftheriotis, Dimitris .....................................32 European Cinemas in the Television Age........49 Exploring Visual Culture ...................................19 Eye of the Century ..............................................3 Falicov, Tamara L.............................................33 Family Affair, A .................................................17 Farquhar, Mary ................................................ 31 Faulkner, Sally ..................................................33 Feminist Auteurs.............................................. 22 Feminist Film Studies....................................... 15 Film’s Musical Moments ................................ 47 Film and Philosophy.........................................10 Film and Television Textual Analysis ................ 15 Film Curatorship ............................................. 30 Film Genre........................................................27 Film Noir ..........................................................25 Filmosophy .......................................................19 Films of Fact .....................................................25 Fires Were Started ............................................35 Fong, Gilbert...................................................46 Frampton, Daniel............................................19 Francis, David................................................. 30 French New Wave, The ....................................37 Friedman, Lester .............................................35 Gaffney, Freddie ............................................. 44 Galt, Rosalind................................................... 9 George Gallup in Hollywood ............................ 4 German Expressionist Cinema .........................37 Gibbs, John......................................................21 Greene, Naomi ...............................................37 Griffiths, Alison .................................................2 Grossman, Alan ..............................................16 Guerin, Frances ...............................................16 Gunn, Judith ....................................................14 Hallas, Roger ...................................................16 Hames, Peter ................................................. 42 Hammond, Michael ......................................49 Harper, Graeme ..............................................19 Haunted Images ................................................7 Helsby, Wendy................................................. 15 Henderson, Lesley .........................................49 Hibberd, Lynne................................................14 Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony .............................39 Hjort, Mette.....................................................45 Hollywood’s Censor ............................................3 Hollywood Science ...........................................23 Horror Genre, The............................................ 15 Horwath, Alexander..................................11, 30 Hutchison, David............................................36 Image and the Witness, The ............................16 Impossible David Lynch, The ...........................39 Ingmar Bergman Revisited .............................40 Iordanova, Dina ..............................................34 Irvine, Sandy ....................................................14 Jeavons, C. .........................................................5 Jess-Cooke, Carolyn ........................................18 John Mills and British Cinema.........................18 Josef von Sternberg ........................................... 11 Kaye, Linda ..................................................... 29 Keane, Stephen ...............................................23 King, Geoff...................................................... 28 Kirchner, D. ........................................................5 Kirwan-Hayhoe, Mark.....................................14 Koskinen, Maaret...........................................40 Krzywinska, Tanya ..........................................20 Land, Owen ....................................................40 Langford, Barry................................................27 Leggott, James ................................................36 Lim, Song Hwee .............................................33 Lin, Sylvia Li-chun ...........................................32 Loebenstein, Michael .................................... 30 Lord of the Rings, The ......................................19 Mackenzie, S. P................................................ 6 Martin-Jones, David.......................................20 Mathijs, Ernest ..........................................19, 43 Mayer, Geoff ....................................................34 Mayer, Sophie..................................................43 Mazdon, Lucy.................................................49 Mazierska, Ewa .............................................. 26 McDonald, Keith............................................. 15 McDonald, Tamar Jeffers .............................. 24 McDougall, Julian ...........................................27 McGowan, Todd .............................................39 McInnes, Rob .................................................. 15 McKernan, Luke .......................................29, 30 McVeigh, Stephen.......................................... 26 Media in Scotland, The....................................36 Media in the Digital Age................................. 44 Mercer, J. ............................................................5 Mirza, Karen ....................................................32 Morris, Nigel ...................................................43 Morrison, James .............................................41 Moving Image Knowledge and Access............ 30 Muir, Stephanie......................................... 13, 14 Murray, Andy ...................................................14 Murray, Terri .................................................... 15 Music, Sound, and Multimedia......................46 Narrative in Film and TV................................. 15 Needham, Gary...............................................32 New European Cinema, The ............................ 9 North, Dan ......................................................45 O’Brien, Áine ...................................................16 O’Brien, Wayne ...............................................27 Oesterlan, Eve-Marie ..................................... 29 Ohmer, Susan .................................................. 4 Omasta, Michael ............................................ 11 On Screenwriting............................................. 44 Orr, John ..........................................................43 Ostrowska, Dorota .................................. 37, 49 Ostrowska, Elzbieta ........................................43 Patterson, Hannah ........................................ 42 Pavlik, John V. ................................................. 44 Pens and Swords ............................................. 48 Performing Illusions ..........................................45 Perkowitz, Sidney............................................23 Perks, Sarah..................................................... 15 Plain, Gill..........................................................18 Plate, S. Brent ..................................................10 Points, Jeremy .................................................14 Pomerance, Murray ........................................17 Powell, Danny .................................................14 Prager, Brad .................................................... 42 Presidential Debates, The................................ 48 Projecting Migration.........................................16 Pye, Douglas....................................................21 Ramanathan, Geetha .................................... 22 Rampley, Matthew ..........................................19 Rascaroli, Laura.............................................. 26 Reading the French New Wave........................37 Redmond, Sean .................................. 12, 13, 14 Reekie, Duncan .................................................5 Rehahn, Eleanor.............................................. 15 Religion and Film .............................................10 Remapping World Cinema ..............................33 Representing Atrocity in Taiwan.......................32 Researcher’s Guide, The .................................. 30 Researcher’s Guide to British Cinemagazines 29 Researcher’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film, Televison, and Radio ........................................ 29 Rimmer, Will....................................................14
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Roberts, Graham ...........................................49 Roberts, Ian .....................................................37 Rocky Horror Picture Show, The..................... 28 Rollins, Peter C................................................. 6 Rolston, Lorraine ............................................14 Romantic Comedy........................................... 24 Sapphism on Screen........................................ 22 Saunders, Dave ...............................................17 Saxton, Libby .....................................................7 Scarratt, Elaine ................................................ 15 Scenes of Love and Murder ............................... 9 Schroeder, Alan .............................................. 48 Science Fiction Film ......................................... 15 Screening Shakespeare in the 21st Century......18 Sentimental Fabulations, Cont. Chinese Films 31 Sequences ........................................................ 30 Sex and the Cinema ........................................20 Sexton, Jamie..................................................46 Shakespeare on Film ........................................18 Shary, Timothy.................................................25 Shaw, Daniel C. ...............................................10 Shivers Down Your Spine ...................................2 Silent Film Sound.............................................. 4 Smith, Ian Haydn........................................... 29 Social Issues in Television Fiction ....................49 Spectatorship ...................................................20 St. George, Paul ............................................. 30 Stone, Rob .......................................................19 Stoneman, Rod ...............................................33 Story of the Century!, The ..................................5 Studying American Beauty .............................14 Studying Blade Runner .............................12, 14 Studying Chungking Express.................... 13, 14 Studying City of God ................................. 13, 14 Studying Donnie Darko ..................................14 Studying From Russia with Love ...................14 Studying Gladiator...........................................14 Studying Surrealist and Fantasy Cinema ........14 Studying The Lord of the Rings .....................14 Studying The Matrix ..................................12, 14 Studying The Sixth Sense ...............................14 Studying The Third Man .................................14 Studying The Usual Suspects ........................14 Studying The Wicker Man ..............................14 Studying Videogames .......................................27 Subversion...........................................................5 Talking Movies ..................................................38 TCM International Film Guide 2008 ............. 29 Teen Movies ................................................ 15, 25 Terris, Olwen................................................... 29 Theory of Narrative, A ....................................... 8 This Is Spinal Tap............................................. 28 Thompson, Kirsten Moana........................... 24 Tincknell, Estella............................................. 47 Two Films by Owen Land ...............................40 Uncovering the Holocaust..................................7 Unsilvered Screen, The .....................................19 Usai, Paolo Cherchi ....................................... 30 van der Knaap, Ewout ......................................7 Vanderschelden, Isabelle................................ 15 Vision On ..........................................................35 Webber, Andrew ..............................................16 Weinstock, Jeffrey ........................................... 28 White, Jerry ......................................................34 Widescreen ........................................................38 Willis, Andy ...................................................... 15 Wilson, Emma.................................................16 Withall, Keith ................................................... 15 Wood, Jason ....................................................38 Wray, Ramona .................................................18 Wurtzler, Steve J. ...............................................5 Wyver, John ......................................................35 Zucker, Carole..................................................41
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