2014 Columbia Film Studies Catalogue by Columbia University Press

Film Studies New and Noteworthy Titles 2014

CONTENTS

FEATURED TITLES

Featured Titles................................................ 2 Film and Culture.............................................9 Film Criticism................................................13 Film History...................................................21 International Film.........................................23 Short Cuts.....................................................29 Nonfictions....................................................34 Cultographies................................................35 24 Frames..................................................... 38 Devil’s Advocates’.........................................39 Splice.............................................................43 Film Directors ..............................................44 Film Making.................................................. 56 Media Studies...............................................58 Ordering Information................................... 63 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

Wallflower Press is an imprint of Columbia University Press. 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 published by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the Press. Titles published by Hong Kong University Press, Transcript-Verlag, Ibidem Press, and Auteur Press are available from Columbia only in the United States and Latin America.

The Ultimate Stallone Reader Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur Edited by Chris Holmlund Sylvester Stallone has been a defining part of American film for nearly four decades. He has made an impact on world entertainment in a surprisingly diverse range of capacities – as actor, writer, producer, and director – all while maintaining a monolithic presence. With The Ultimate Stallone Reader, this icon finally receives concerted academic attention. Eleven original essays by internationally-known scholars examine Stallone’s contributions to mainstream cinema, independent film, and television. This volume also offers innovative approaches to star, gender, and celebrity studies, performance analysis, genre criticism, industry and reception inquiry, and the question of what it means to be an auteur. Ultimately, The Ultimate Stallone Reader investigates the place that Sylvester Stallone occupies within an industry and a culture that have both undergone much evolution, and how his work has reflected and even driven these changes. $27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-16981-3 $80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16980-6 2014 224 pages, 20 illus. Wallflower Press

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Lady in the Dark Iris Barry and the Art of Film

Contemporary Romanian Cinema

Robert Sitton

The History of an Unexpected Miracle

“Iris Barry was film’s first great archivist and a crucial figure in turning a curious novelty into the most significant new art form of its century. She has long deserved a biography as graceful and expert as the one Robert Sitton has delivered so handsomely. It offers a lively portrait of modernist New York when it was fresh and new and is the better for the richness of its quotations from Barry’s stirring writings. It cannot be praised too highly.” — Richard Schickel “Museum of Modern Art film legend Iris Barry mattered to cinema history, and this book makes her life matter as well. Sitton’s sharp biography spans Barry’s life from her fascinating times among the literati of post-Victorian Britain to her famed career in the United States, which entailed her virtually founding the influential MoMA Film Library. This is a rich and captivating story.” — Dana Polan, author of Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film, 1915–1935

Dominique Nasta "Every national cinema should envy Romania for having someone like Dominique Nasta to chronicle its history. This book, like Romanian cinema itself, provides unexpected discoveries decade to decade, while leading us authoritatively and dramatically to the recent masterpieces that have put Romania firmly on the cinephile's map. This will be the definitive book on this important cinema." — Dudley Andrew, Yale University "By exploring not only nationally specific contexts, but also issues such as co-productions, exile, diaspora, and other forms of global circulation, Nasta demonstrates that far from being a peripheral phenomenon, Romanian cinema has a central place within discussions of world cinema." — Tim Bergfelder, University of Southampton $26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-16745-1 $80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16744-4

$40.00 / £27.50 cloth 978-0-231-16578-5

2013 256 pages / 15 illus.

2014 496 pages / 40 illus.

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FEATURED TITLES

Night Passages PhilosoPhy, literature , and film

E l i sa b E t h b r o n f E n t r a n s l at e d b y t h e a u t h o r w i t h d av i d b r e n n e r

Must We Kill the Thing We Love?

Night Passages

Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

Philosophy, Literature, and Film

William Rothman “Nobody knows the films of Alfred Hitchcock better than William Rothman. The idea of linking these wonderful and dense films with an Emersonian vision is inspired. Rothman’s training in philosophy combines lucidly with his lifelong devotion to film in producing a work of originality and authority.” — Stanley Cavell, Harvard University “While Rothman draws his examples from all across the Hitchcock canon, his work remains resolutely and productively philosophical in that he grapples with the history of Hitchcock’s thinking about film, his thinking with and through film. In tracking Hitchcock’s ruminations on love, murder, and mortality Rothman both deepens and illuminates our understanding of Hitchcock’s continued and uncanny appeal.”

Elisabeth Bronfen "Elisabeth Bronfen's Night Passages will take readers not only to the end of the night, but to its beginnings and middle as well. The nocturnal world of the ancient Greeks, of Shakespeare, Hegel, Freud, and film noir, of Mozart, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf, of E. T. A. Hoffmann and Martin Scorsese—it is all here. No other work deals so profoundly with what the human mind has imagined about life between sunset and sunrise." — William Sharpe, Barnard College $32.50 / £22.50 paper 978-0-231-14799-6 $105.00 / £72.00 cloth 978-0-231-14798-9 2013 496 pages / 21 illus.

— Leland Poague, Iowa State University $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16603-4 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16602-7 2014 320 pages / 111 illus. Film and Culture Series

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CoNtiNENtal StRaNGERS

German Exile Cinema 1933-1951

GERD GEMÜNDEN

Indie 2.0

Continental Strangers

Change and Continuity in Contemporary American Indie Film

German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951

Geoff King

“This indispensable panorama of exile cinema profoundly enriches our understanding of a crucial period of Hollywood filmmaking and its transnational resonances.”

Recasting the term “indie” to denote a particular form of independent feature production that has risen to prominence in the twenty-first century, Geoff King identifies and discusses the new opportunities available to indie filmmakers. These new options and techniques include low-cost digital video and a range of Internet and social-media ventures providing funding, distribution, promotion, and sales. He also covers the ultra-low-budget “mumblecore” movement; the social realism of such filmmakers as Kelly Reichardt and Ramin Bahrani; the “digital desktop” aesthetics of Jonathan Caouette’s Tarnation (2003) and Arin Crumley and Susan Buice’s Four Eyed Monsters (2005); and the debate over the notions of a “true” indie film in light of what some see as the quirky contrivances of crossover hits such as Little Miss Sunshine (2006) and Juno (2007). $30.00 paper 978-0-231-16795-6

Gerd Gemünden

— Johannes von Moltke, University of Michigan “Deftly, Gerd Gemünden combines perceptive close readings of select films with sharp archival investigation to show how some key movies of classical Hollywood came-in often fraught manner-to engage with the evils of fascism. By understanding cinema as a complex negotiation over political meanings, from production to final results onscreen, this volume represents a major contribution to the literature on the Hollywood emigrés and their cultural work.” — Dana Polan, New York University $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16679-9 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16678-2 2014 296 pages / 40 illus. Film and Culture Series

$90.00 cloth 978-0-231-16794-9 2013 288 pages

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FEATURED TITLES

Finding Ourselves at the Movies

Video Revolutions

Philosophy for a New Generation

A On the History of a Medium

Paul W. Kahn

Michael Z. Newman

"A brilliant venture in the lost art of bringing theoretical insight to bear on popular culture. Finding Ourselves at the Movies defends another relationship between the thinker and the public, enacting what it theorizes in illuminating commentaries on films. Kahn makes us reconsider movies as reflections of our collective imagination and public commitments." — Samuel Moyn, Columbia University

“Michael Newman has carved out a fascinating intellectual space between television and cinema as they are traditionally understood, to illuminate both as well as to explore the new ground that the concept of ‘video’ established in the media imaginary. This is a concise and impressive work that should be on the reading list of all scholars of media and contemporary culture.” — Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Drawing on everything from war movies to romantic comedies, from horror films to family dramas, Kahn shows us how the movies mirror the ways we communally invest our lives and our world with meaning. His readings of popular films and the shared world these films reflect are at once astute and provocative." — Susan Wolf, University of

“Newman does for video what Lynn Spigel did for television: he ‘makes room’ for it in an accessible and compelling critique that shows how video has become an integral part of our lives. Video Revolutions is a book that is long overdue.” — Michael Curtin, co-author, The American Television Industry

North Carolina at Chapel Hill $35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16438-2

$9.00 / £6.00 paper 978-0-231-16951-6 2014 160 pages / 9 illus.

2013 256 pages

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Cinematic Appeals

Slow Movies

The Experience of New Movie Technologies

Countering the Cinema of Action Ira Jaffe

Ariel Rogers “Ariel Rogers’s fascinating book looks at the affective addresses of technologicallyinnovative periods in film history to explore the different notions of spectatorial embodiment these technologies provide, from the immersive participation of the widescreen era to the relative disembodiment of the fragmented and alienated spectator in the digital era. She has made an important intervention in the ongoing discussions of spectatorship and embodiment in the cinema that will determine the direction of future scholarship in those fields.” — John Belton, Rutgers University $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-15917-3

“In a time of hypermodern acceleration in cinematic narrative, Ira Jaffe turns a penetrating eye to films that embody a transcendent and deeply probing slowness. Interpretive deliberation, emptiness of moment and observation, virtuosity of meditation, the revelation of the long take, and the patient angling of narrative gain new clarity – even radiance – in Jaffe’s important analysis of works by Jarmusch, Van Sant, Kiarostami, Oliveira, Ceylan, Puiu, Zhang-ke, and Tarr.” — Murray Pomerance, University of Toronto $27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-16979-0 $80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16978-3 2014 256 pages / 30 illus. Wallflower Press

$90/00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-15916-6 2013 352 pages / 68 illlus. Film and Culture series

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Satyajit Ray on Cinema Love in Motion Erotic Relationships in Film Reidar Due This is a book about how film encountered love in the course of its history. It is also a book about the philosophy of love. Since Plato, erotic love has been praised for leading the soul to knowledge. The vast tradition of poetry devoted to love has emphasized that love is a feeling. Love in Motion presents a new metaphysics and ontology of love as a reciprocal erotic relationship. The book argues that film has been particularly well suited for depicting love in this way, in virtue of its special narrative language. This is a language of expression that has developed in the course of film history. The book spans this history from early silent directors such as Joseph von Sternberg to contemporary filmmakers like Sophia Coppola. At the centre of this study is a comparison between Classical French and American love films of the forties and a series of modernist films by Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut and Wong Kar Wai.

Satyajit Ray; Edited by Sandip Ray; Foreword by Shyam Benegal

“The work of Satyajit Ray presents a remarkably insightful understanding of the relations between cultures, and his ideas remain pertinent to the great cultural debates in the contemporary world, not least in India.” — The New Republic “Satyajit Ray is among the world’s greatest directors, and has influenced so many other film makers in all parts of the world.” — James Ivory “A joy to read...highly recommended” — Choice $19.50 paper 978-0-231-16495-5 $69.50 cloth 978-0-231-16494-8 2013 184 pages / 24 page insert

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16733-8 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-988-8083-32-9 2013 192 pages / 15 illus. pages Wallflower Press

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS (Film and Culture Series)

The Film and Culture series publishes books that integrate recent work in cultural theory with film historiography, especially with work that engages with primary research materials, in an effort to see how films are embedded within specific social, historical, and cultural contexts. Series Editor — John Belton

Where Film Meets Philosophy

Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939

Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking

Thomas Doherty “Wide-ranging and brightly written.” — The New York Times Book Review

Hunter Vaughan “A rewarding study that brings postwar philosophy into a shared legacy of cinema.” — Tom Conley, Harvard University “Vaughan’s brilliant book places him on the cutting edge of contemporary studies that blend film and philosophy. Reconstructing and clarifying how film-philosophy renders fresh insight into the revolutionary potential of the moving film image, Vaughan opens a new dimension to thought and action.” — Sam B. Girgus, Vanderbilt University

“A witty writer familiar with Hollywood history and manners, Doherty places the studios’ craven behavior within a general account of the political culture of the movies in the thirties and forties.”— David Denby, The New Yorker “Mr. Doherty fully understands the studio system and how it juggled interference from its own internal agency, the Production Code Administration.” — Wall Street Journal

$29.50 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16133-6 $89.50 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16132-9

$35.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-16392-7

2013 264 pages, 42 photographs

2013 448 pages / 72 illus.

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FILM AND CULTURE SERIES New in paper

The Utopia of Film

American Showman

Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik

Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908-1935

Christopher Pavsek “At a time when older conceptions of political film have become outmoded, if not forgotten altogether, Christopher Pavsek unexpectedly reinvents this form through his pathbreaking examination of three neglected but extraordinary filmmakers. The Utopia of Film is a revelation and a resource.” — Fredric Jameson, Duke University $29.50 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-16099-5 $89.50 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-16098-8 2013 304 pages / 37 illus.

Ross Melnick

“Book of the Year” Award from the Theatre Historical Society of America “[An] eye-poppingly informative new book.... First-rate cultural history.” — Washington Post “Anyone who cares about the development of film exhibition in the early 20th century should consider it essential reading.” — Leonard Maltin Blog “Dr. Melnick skillfully captures the substance and durability of Rothafel’s prolific life.” — New York Times $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-15905-0 $37.50 / £26.00 cloth 978-0-231-15904-3 2012 576 pages /27 illus.

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New in paper

Hollywood’s Copyright Wars

Pretty

From Edison to the Internet

Film and the Decorative Image

Peter Decherney

Rosalind Galt

“Both scholarly and readable, this will be of interest to movie history buffs and those who deal with copyright issues.” — Library Journal

Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“Peter Decherney shows how the copyright system shaped the American film industry and how film in turn shaped copyright. This is cultural history at its best.” — Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia, author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity “A splendid new study of the legal, technological, and aesthetic wrangling over motion picture copyright wrongs and rights, particularly timely.” —Moving Image Source $26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-15947-0 $34.50 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-15946-3

Best Monograph Award from the The British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) “Brilliantly engaging and absolutely knowledgeable. This is a key work. . . . Highly recommended.” — Choice “This very original take on culturally received and culturally determining ideas and emotions surrounding visual pleasure is long overdue. Galt’s book is a necessary contribution to the study of the image in film and visuality studies.” — Brigitte Peucker, author of The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film $26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-15347-8 $79.50 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-15346-1 2011 408 pages, 50 illus.

2012 304 pages /40 illus.

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FILM AND CULTURE SERIES

Film Studies An Introduction

Indie An American Film Culture

Ed Sikov

Michael Z. Newman

“[Sikov] has produced one of the most comprehensive and accessible texts of its type and it is likely to become a staple for introductory film studies curricula.” — Metapsychology

“This concrete, objective study makes an important contribution to the ongoing coversation. Highly recommended.” — Choice

“The clearest and most concise introduction to the field.” — PLAYBACK $29.50 / £20.50 paper 978-0-231-14293-9 $99.50 / £68.50 cloth 978-0-231-14292-2 2009 232 pages/ 110 illus.

Shivers Down Your Spine Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View Alison Griffiths “This is a scholarly, in-depth study of an important aspect of museum exhibitions today . . . Highly recommended." — Choice

“Makes a significant contribution to the literature on American independent cinema, one that is likely to reshape debates and discussions for several years to come....Newman’s book beautifully captures the multi-dimensional quality of American independent cinema in the nineties and “naughts”: its formal play, its multicultural appeal, and its “branding” as off-Hollywood product." — Jeff Smith, University of Wisconsin $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-14465-0 $85.00 / £58.50 cloth 978-0-231-14464-3 2011 304 pages/ 30 illus.

“With this volume, Griffiths has established herself as one of the most ambitious scholars now straddling the various fields that comprise visual studies.” — Museum Anthropology Review $27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-12989-3 $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-0-231-12988-6 2008 (cloth) 392 pages / 79 illus.

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FILM CRITICISM

Filming the Unfilmable

Lubitsch Can't Wait

Casper Wrede's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Second Edition

A Collection of Ten Philosophical Discussions on Ernst Lubitsch's Film Comedy

Ben Hellmann and Andreii Rogachevskii

Edited by Ivana Novak, Mladen Dolar, and

"Hellman and Rogachevskii's book can be a valuable resource for scholars who study either Wrede's films or Solzhenitsyn's literary text. It is a well-researched case study of a film adaptation based on a controversial literary text." — Slavic and East European Journal This volume shares the fascinating story of the cinematic adaptation of one of the world’s most influential novels. An all-encompassing account of the film’s production and reception, the account is filled with little-known facts and valuable insight into Solzhenitsyn’s complex relationship with filmmaking. $46.00 / £31.50 paper 978-3-8382-0594-6 2014 260 pages / 40 illus Ibidem Press

Jela Krečič In this collection, renowned world thinkers and philosophers position Ernst Lubitsch as the premium director of subversive cinema, reflecting on his attitude toward love and politics which correspond to contemporary issues. Contributors focus on love as stealing, the ethics of style, and comedy in times of austerity in the director’s masterpiece, Trouble in Paradise (1932); discuss links between masochism, melancholia, and ideology in Ninotchka (1939); celebrate the ethical gesture of comedy in To Be or Not to Be (1942); and promote the revolutionary comic spirit of Lubitsch’s last directorial effort, Cluny Brown (1946). The essays highlight Lubitsch’s unique understanding of love, sex, comedy, and politics and idiosyncratic conception of totalitarian“nightmares” and capitalistic “paradise,” countering the non-dialectic and politically correct discourse of mainstream and independent cinema today. $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-961-6417-84-6 2014 240 pages Slovenian Cinematheque

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FILM CRITICISM

Film Dialogue

Eastwood’s Iwo-Jima

Edited by Jeff Jaeckle

Critical Engagements With Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima

"A rich and exciting collection of essays that bravely counters the widely-held view that cinema is a visual medium. Covering the work of famous directors as well as science fiction, documentary, animation and films adapted from literature, this book demonstrates the many ways that dialogue functions, and shows why movies must be listened to as well as watched. This volume challenges our conventional understanding of cinema and takes it to a wholly new level." — Stephen Prince, Virginia Tech, author of Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-16563-1 $85.00 / £58.50 cloth 978-0-231-16562-4 2013 288 pages / 18 illus. Wallflower Press

Edited by Anne Gjelsvik and Rikke Schubart With Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Clint Eastwood made a unique contribution to film history, being the first director to make two films about the same event. Eastwood’s films examine the battle over Iwo Jima from two nations’ perspectives, in two languages, and embody a passionate view on conflict, enemies, and heroes. In this volume, international scholars in political science and film, literary, and cultural studies undertake multifaceted investigations into how Eastwood’s diptych reflects war today. Fifteen essays explore the intersection among war films, American history, and Japanese patriotism. They present global attitudes toward war memories, icons, and heroism while offering new perspectives on cinema, photography, journalism, ethics, propaganda, war strategy, leadership, and the war on terror. $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-16565-5 $85.00 / £58.50 cloth 978-0-231-16564-8 2013 256 pages, 15 illus Wallflower Press

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Ambiguity in Star Wars and Harry Potter

Beyond Bruce Lee Chasing the Dragon Through Film,

A (Post)Structuralist Reading of Two Popular Myths

Philosophy, and Popular Culture Paul Bowman “No one writing today has a keener eye for delineating the logic of contemporary cultural politics than Paul Bowman. In Beyond Bruce Lee he powerfully demonstrates how and why Bruce Lee matters to a whole host of fields (cinema studies, cultural studies, politics, philosophy, sociology) without ever limiting himself to writing from the narrow perspective of any one of those disciplines. Regardless of where you position yourself in or out of any of those fields...you still must read this book.” — Samuel Chambers, Johns Hopkins University $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-16529-7 $85.00 / £58.50 cloth 978-0-231-16528-0 2013

Christina Flotmann The study combines theories of myth, popular culture, structuralism and poststructuralism to explain the enormous appeal of Star Wars and Harry Potter. Although much research already exists on both stories individually, this book is the first to explicitly bring them together in order to explore their set-up and the ways in which their structures help produce ideologies on gender and ethnicity. Hereby, the comparison yields central insights into the workings of modern myth and uncovers structure as integral to the success of the popular genre. It addresses academic audiences and all those wishing to approach the tales from a fresh angle.

224 pages, 18 illus

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$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-2148-8 2013 394 pages /10 illus Transcript-Verlag

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FILM CRITICISM

Studying The Bourne Ultimatum

Studying Fight Club

Neil Archer

Mark Ramey

“A clear and concise study guide to a popular film that should be welcomed by Media teachers looking to engage students with a culturally accessible film, one with which they might already be familiar, to utilize as a starting point for questioning the way films are constructed, what they might tell us (and, just as crucially, what they might not tell us, or even what they actively choose not to), and how they might relate to other texts and real-world issues.” — idFilm “[An] insightful analysis.” — Crime Time $15.00 / £10.50 paper 978-1-906733-59-9 2012 124 pages, 20 illus. Auteur Publishing

“The explanations are intelligent and considered. . . . [Studying Fight Club] will prove an invaluable companion text.” — Media Education Association Fight Club is, on one level, pop-culture phenomena and on another, a deeply philosophical and satirical exploration of modern life. David Fincher’s 1999 film (and Chuck Palahniuk’s source novel) has had a huge impact on audiences worldwide leading to spoofs, homage, merchandising and numerous Internet fan sites. On initial release the film was met with wide hostility from critics who either failed to appreciate its satirical intent. Early in its DVD afterlife, however, a wider audience began to appreciate the film’s significance and radical message. Although attracted by the film’s playfulness and star wattage, however, many students struggle with its theoretical notions such as Capitalism, materialism, anarchy and so on. Mark Ramey has provided a thoughtful and provocative analysis of this intriguing film. $15.00 / £10.50 paper 978-1-906733-55-1 2012 112 pages / 20 illus. Auteur Publishing

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Peep Shows

Hard To Swallow Hard-Core Pornography on Screen

Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic

Edited by Claire Hines and Darren Kerr

Edited by Xavier Mendik

This lively and provocative new collection of essays by leading scholars explores screen representations of pornography and sex in a variety of cultural, historical, and critical contexts. Contributions cover a wide range of topics from sex in the multiplex to online alt-porn, from women in stag films to the excesses of extreme pornography, and a variety of contemporary case studies including porn performance, fashion in hard-core, and gay and lesbian pornography.

Expanding on recent work in gender, cultural, and audience-based studies, Peep Shows: Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic examines the global traditions of cult erotica, explaining key patterns, paradigms, and performers from the world of cult celluloid sexuality. Peep Shows includes profiles of porn performers and icons such as Ron Jeremy, Betty Page, Catherine Breillat, and Joe D’Amato. Essays also provides case studies of contemporary porn parodies, lesbian erotica, Japanese Pink porn cinema, Café Flesh, the Seduction cinema label, the dominatrix in erotic cinema, female porn viewers, burlesque cinema programming, and porno chic soundtracks. The volume features exclusive interviews with erotic performers Seka, Buck Angel, Misty Mundae, Christina ‘Thriller’ Lindberg, and the prolific porn producer, Michael L. Raso.

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16213-5

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-1-906660-35-2

$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16210-4

2012 224 pages

2012 244 pages

Wallflower Press

“An excellent snapshot of porn studies as they are today and provides an insight into the range and quality of critical engagement with hardcore pornography in the industry, in the academy, and beyond.” — New Review of Film and Television Studies

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FILM CRITICISM

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Animating the Unconscious

The Self and Subjectivity in First-Person Documentary Film

Desire, Sexuality and Animation

Edited by Alisa Lebow “Global in its reach, sensitive to the political valences of self-inscription, ground-breaking in its attention to new formats and technologies, The Cinema of Me offers unmistakable proof that the first person film is a vital strand of contemporary media production. Once thought to be the refuge of the privileged, self-absorbed Western-man, autobiography exists today as a ubiquitous act of self-expression and political agency. Spanning a breadth of modalities— including the essay film, i-movie, cinematic self-portrait, home movie remix, blog—The Cinema of Me testifies to the power of media practices that can transform private lives into social subjectivities.” — Michael Renov, University of Southern California

Edited by Jayne Pilling “This volume leads the reader into fresh, mostly uncharted territory of desire and sexuality in animation, sparking fantasies and providing insights. . . . Highly recommended.” — Choice

2012 288 pages

As critical interest has grown in the unique ways in which art animation explores and depicts subjective experience, this volume offers detailed analysis of both the process and practice of key contemporary filmmakers, while also raising more general issues around the specificities of animation. Combining critical essays with interview material, visual mapping of the creative process, consideration of the neglected issue of how the use of sound differs from that of conventional live-action, and filmmakers’ critiques of each others’ work, this unique collection aims to both provoke and illuminate via an insightful multi-faceted approach.

Wallflower Press

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16199-2

$26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-16215-9 $80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16214-2

$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16198-5 2012 244 pages Wallflower Press

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Millennial Cinema

Critical Cinema

Memory in Global Film

Beyond the Theory of Practice

Edited by Amresh Sinha and Terence

Edited by Clive Myer

McSweeney “An engaging and insightful look at the construction and purpose of memory and nostalgia in contemporary or ‘millennial’ film.” — Film Comment Combining individual readings and interdisciplinary methodologies, this book offers new analyses of memory and trauma in some of the most discussed and debated films of the new millennium: Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), The Namesake (2006), Hidden (2005), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Oldboy (2003), City of God (2002), Irréversible (2002), Mulholland Drive (2001), Memento (2000), and In the Mood for Love (2000). $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16193-0 $80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16192-3 2012 256 pages Wallflower Press

Critical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice purges the obstructive line between the making of and the theorising on film, uniting theory and practice in order to move beyond the commercial confines of Hollywood. Opening with an introduction by Bill Nichols, one of the world’s leading writers on nonfiction film, this volume features contributions by such prominent authors as Noel Burch, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, Brian Winston and Patrick Fuery. Seminal filmmakers such as Peter Greenway and Mike Figgis also contribute to the debate, making this book a critical text for students, academics, and independent filmmakers as well as for any reader interested in new perspectives on culture and film. $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-1-906660-36-9 $75.00/ £52.00 cloth 978-1-906660-37-6 2012 224 pages Wallflower Press

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FILM CRITICISM

The Celluloid Madonna

The Film Genre Book

From Scripture to Screen

John Sanders

Catherine O’Brien “A thorough and engaging study of the portrayal of the Virgin Mary in film, understanding its subject in relation to both religious and secular contexts. It should be read by anyone interested in gender or religion in film, and equally by anyone concerned with the reception of religion in modernity.” — Sarah Boss, Director, UK Centre for Marian Studies Film discussed include Cecil B. DeMille’s The King of Kings (1927), Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), Franco Zeffirelli’s Jesus of Nazareth (1977), Jean-Luc Godard’s Hail Mary (1985), Jean Delannoy’s Mary of Nazareth (1985), Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004), Catherine Hardwicke’s The Nativity Story (2006), and Mark DornfordMay’s Son of Man (2006). $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-1-906660-27-7 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-1-906660-28-4 2011 224 pages Wallflower Press

“I also can’t praise Sander’s book enough.” — Screen Education A comprehensive introduction to film history, The Film Genre Book allows the reader to create their own narrative of film through history by focusing on seven genres, highlighting a key film from each genre over a ninety-year period—sixty-three films discussed in detail. The reader can trace the developments in a particular genre over time or compare films in a particular decade from the different genres. Each case-study considers issues of historical context, representation and the close textual analysis of significant scenes. Analyzing films as diverse as Bambi and Pan’s Labyrinth, the book immerses its reader into the full range of film experience. Its breadth of study, and the way in which it bridges the gap between commercial film guides and academic studies, makes it invaluable to teacher, student, and cineaste alike. $29.50/ £20.50 paper 978-1-903663-90-5 $95.00 / £65.50 cloth 978-1-903663-91-2 2009 464 pages / 60 illus. Auteur Publishing

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FILM HISTORY

Camera Historica

Wang Renmei

The Century in Cinema Antoine de Baecque

The Wildcat of Shanghai (With DVD of Wild Rose)

Translated by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan

Richard J. Meyer

Magidoff

"Wang Renmei is one of the most dynamic and talented film actors in Chinese history, full of tensions and self-contradictions that revealed in part the violence and turmoil of her times and the political complexity of the film industry. This fine book on one of China’s most exciting film artists will appeal to both scholars and general readers interested in early Chinese cinema." — Poshek Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Those in search of superb academic writing need look no further. De Baecque renders a beguiling mix of auteurism, rigorous methodology, and historical analysis in an evenhanded, engaging tone.”—Film Comment “Politics, social insights and film art blend in a scholarly international probe perfect for film analysts studying the art and culture of cinema.” — Midwest Book Review “Camera Historica is a refreshing and stimulating read, ultimately offering a vital contribution to the ongoing need for serious discussions of the intersections between film and history.” — American Historical Review $35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-15651-6 $105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-15650-9 2012 424 pages/ 196 illus. European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

Wang’s life is emblematic of the experiences of many left-wing and Communist Party members from the Shanghai film community who were viewed with suspicion and enmity by the Yan’an clique headed by Mao and later the Gang of Four. Wang’s performances in World War II for the Nationalist troops as well as her work with the US forces in China had a dire effect on her career after 1949. Yet today, her films are being discovered again.. $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-988-8139-96-5 2013 204 pages / 44 illus. Hong Kong University Press

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FILM HISTORY

Anna May Wong From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend Graham Russell Gao Hodges “Graham Russell Gao Hodges’ fascinating biography of Anna May Wong is an important contribution to not only film studies but Asian American history and women’s history. The facts of Wong’s life — her humble origins as laundryman’s daughter, her tragic love affairs, her international political activism, and her celebrity status as the nation’s first Chinese American movie star — are far more compelling than any of her roles on film.” — Iris Chang, New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of Nanking and The Chinese American: A Narrative History In a narrative that recalls both the gritty life in Los Angeles’s working-class Chinese neighborhoods and the glamour of Hollywood at its peak, Graham Hodges recounts the life of this elegant, beautiful, and underappreciated screen legend. $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-988-8139-63-7 2012 320 pages, 33 illus. Hong Kong University Press

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The Struggle for Form

Cut-Pieces

Polish Avant-Garde Film 1916–1989

Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh

Edited by Kamila Kuc and Michael O’Pray This is the first comprehensive Englishlanguage account of the Polish avant-garde film, from its beginnings in the early decades of the last century to the collapse of communism in 1989. Taking a broad understanding of avant-garde film, this collection includes writings on the pioneering work of the internationally-acclaimed Franciszka and Stefan Themerson; the Polish Futurists’ (Jalu Kurek, Anatol Stern) engagement with film; the Thaw and animation (Jan Lenica and Walerian Borowczyk, Andrzej Pawɫowski, Zbigniew Rybczyński); documentary (Natalia Brzozowska, Kazimierz Karabasz, Wojciech Wiszniewski), Polish émigré filmmakers (Roman Polański, Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrzej Żuɫawski) as well as essays and documentation on the highly influential Film Form Workshop (Józef Robakowski, Ryszard Waśko, Wojciech Bruszewski). $27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-16983-7 $80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16982-0 June 2014 256 pages Wallflower Press

Lotte Hoek “Hoek’s journeys to towns with considerable distance from Dhaka are a thrill to read; viewings of Mintu the Murderer are vivid in no small terms, and the local color of hanging out at tea stalls and backrooms were page-turners. This is an inspired book, showing the life of a film from its conception to exhibition, or in this case to its ban.” — Lalitha Gopalan, University of Texas at Austin Imagine watching an action film in a smalltown cinema hall in Bangladesh, and in between the gun battles and fistfights, a short pornographic clip appears. This is known as a cut-piece, a strip of locally made celluloid pornography surreptitiously spliced into the reels of action films in Bangladesh. Exploring the shadowy world of these clips and their place in South Asian film culture, Lotte Hoek builds a rare, detailed portrait of the production, consumption, and cinematic pleasures of stray celluloid. $27.50 / £19.00 paper 978-0-231-16289-0 $82.50 / £57.00 cloth 978-0-231-16288-3 2013 272 pages, 11 illlus. South Asia Across the Disciplines

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New Tunisian Cinema Allegories of Resistance Robert Lang “Robert Lang’s New Tunisian Cinema is a timely and impressive examination of some of the most politically engaged films made during the Ben Ali era. This is the book I and many others have been waiting for—it fills a long overdue need to approach Tunisian cinema with both historical accuracy and theoretical rigor. It deserves to be widely read.” — Nouri Gana, editor of The Making of the Tunisian Revolution “This original work enriches our understanding of the political and cultural history of Tunisia and sheds new light on the implications of a ‘Revolution’ that holds up a mirror to us.” — Kmar Bendana, University of La Manouba, Tunisia

Lachende Körper [German Language Edition] Komikerinnen im Kino der 1910er Jahre Claudia Preschl

Claudia Preschl's study focusses on female performers in comedies between 1910 and 1918. The book is a contribution to the rediscovery of this early "other" cinema in which comediennes such as "Rosalie", "Léa" or Asta Nielsen played a decisive part. Lachende Körper describes the variety of preposterous body-language and shows how anarchistic body-politics and rebellious strategies of Gender in Early Cinema can be decoded for today. $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-3-901644-27-6 2013 208 pages Austrian Film Museum Books

$35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-16507-5 $105.00 / £72.50 cloth 978-0-231-16506-8 2014 448 pages / 44 illus. Film and Culture Series

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Was ist Film [German Language Edition]

Studying French Cinema Isabelle Vanderschelden In Studying French Cinema, each chapter is devoted to one or more key films, from the ground-breaking films of the nouvelle vague (Les 400 coups, 1959) to contemporary documentary (Etre et avoir, 2002) and puts them into their relevant contexts. Depending on the individual film, these include explorations of childhood, adolescence and coming of age (Les 400 coups, L'Argent de poche); auteur ideology and individual style (the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Agnes Varda); the representation of recent French history (Lacombe Lucien and Au revoir les enfants); transnational production practices (Le Pacte des loups); and popular cinema, comedy and gender issues (e.g. Le Diner de cons). Each film is embedded in its cultural and political context. Together, the historical discussions provide an overview of post-war French history to the present. $27.50 / £19.00 paper 978-1-906733-15-5 $85.00 / £58.50 cloth 978-1-906733-16-2 2013 256 pages/ 20 illus Auteur Publishing

Peter Kubelkas Zyklisches Programm im Österreichischen Filmmuseum Edited by Stefan Grissemann, Alexander Horwath, and Regina Schlagnitweit “Once you delve into Peter Kubelka‘s programmatic cycle you will definitely be able to look at film history differently. Instead of a history of narratives, it will be about forms of seeing and hearing which, today, have very few places left to blossom." — Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Peter Kubelka's program cycle "What is Film" is a key element in the work of the Austrian Film Museum. It was inaugurated in 1996 on the occasion of the centenary of cinema and now consists of 63 programmes of outstanding works. Kubelka's selection of "essential cinema" defines film as an independent art form, as a tool which cultivates new ways of thinking. The book Was ist Film makes the cycle accessible via essays and film stills for the first time. $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-3-901644-36-8 2013 208 pages Austrian Film Museum Books

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INTERNATIONAL FILM Film Unframed A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema Edited by Peter Tscherkassky “Destined to be the work on which any future studies of Austrian film are based. . . . Highly recommended.” — Choice Beginning with the pioneers of independent filmmaking in post-war Austria, the book covers more than 60 years of subversive motion picture history: from Peter Kubelka’s ground-breaking metric films of the 1950s to Kurt Kren’s rapid-fire actionist films in the 1960s and subsequent time studies, from Valie Export’s feminist cinema to Lisl Ponger’s explorations of alternative ethnographies, from the exhilarating found footage works of Martin Arnold and Peter Tscherkassky to the recent generation of younger artists such as Michaela Grill and Siegfried Fruhauf whose innovative work also embraces digital technology. $38.50 / £26.50 cloth 978-3-901644-42-9 2012 368 pages / 100 illus. Austrian Film Museum Books

European Nightmares Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945 Edited by Patricia Allmer, David Huxley, and Emily Brick “An ambitious and important contribution to the study of European horror films.” — European Journal of Media Studies This volume is the first edited collection of essays focusing on European horror cinema from 1945 to the present. It features new contributions by distinguished international scholars exploring British, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Northern European and Eastern European horror cinema. The essays employ a variety of current critical methods of analysis, ranging from psychoanalysis and Deleuzean film theory to reception theory and historical analysis. The complete volume offers in-depth studies of such classic films as Seytan (Turkey, 1974), Suspiria (Italy, 1977), Switchblade Romance (France, 2003), and Taxidermia (Hungary 2006). $26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-16209-8 $80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16206-7 201 2 288 pages Wallflower Press

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Japanese and South Korean Filmmakers

Southeast Asian Independent Cinema

Kate E. Taylor-Jones

Edited by Tilman Baumgärtel

Rising Sun, Divided Land

Rising Sun and Divided Land provides a comprehensive, scholarly examination of the historical background, films, and careers of selected Korean and Japanese film directors. It examines eight directors: Fukasaku Kinji, Im Kwon-teak, Kawase Naomi, Miike Takashi, Lee Chang-dong, Kitano Takeshi, Park Chanwook, and Kim Ki-duk and considers their work as reflections of personal visions and as films that engage with globalization, colonialism, nationalism, race, gender, history, and the contemporary state of Japan and South Korea. Each chapter is followed by a short analysis of a selected film, and the volume as a whole includes a cinematic overview of Japan and South Korea and a list of suggestions for further reading and viewing. $28.00 / £19.50 paper 978-0-231-16585-3

“That there is a vibrant independent cinema in Southeast Asia is now known thanks to the awards won by Brillante Mendoza, Apichatpong and others. But what is the sociopolitico-cultural context within which they are working? How do these iconoclastic, cutting-edge, independent filmmakers view the cinema and how are they forging their own highly original paths? This book provides revealing glimpses into their worlds through insightful essays and lively interviews with the directors.”— Aruna Vasudev, Founder-Editor of Cinemaya, The Asian Film Quarterly $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-988-808-361-9 $50.00 / £34.50 cloth 978-988-808-360-2 2012 304 pages / 47 illus. Hong Kong University Press

$85.00 / £58.50 cloth 978-0-231-16586-0 2013 224 pages / 16 illus. Wallflower Press

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INTERNATIONAL FILM New in paper

Japanese Cinema Goes Global Filmworkers' Journeys

Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea

Yoshiharu Tezuka

Freedom's Frontier Theodore Hughes

Japan’s film industry has gone through dramatic changes in recent decades, as international consumer forces and transnational talent have brought unprecedented engagement with global trends. With careful research and also unique first-person observations drawn from years of working within the international industry of Japanese film, the author examines how different generations of Japanese filmmakers engaged and interacted with the structural opportunities and limitations posed by external forces, and how their subjectivity has been shaped by their transnational experiences and has changed as a result. $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-988-808-333-6 $60.00 / £41.50 cloth 978-988-8083-32-9 2011 216 pages Hong Kong University Press

Choice Outstanding Academic Title “Hughes delivers a postcolonial study of Korea’s modern literary and cinematic history that no East Asian collection can be without ...Highly recommended.” — Choice “Head and shoulders above its competition.” — Cross Currents $27.00 / £18.50 paper 978-0-231-15749-0 $55.00 / £38.00 cloth 978-0-231-15748-3 2012 cloth 304 pages/ 19 illus.

Once A Hero The Vanishing Hong Kong Cinema Perry Lam In Once A Hero, his latest collection of essays, Perry Lam describes the decline of Hong Kong cinema since 1997 and gives an eyewitness account of its attempt to reinvent itself. $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-988-15-0051-9 2011 188 pages Hong Kong University Press

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WALLFLOWER PRESS (Short Cuts)

Short Cuts The Short Cuts series is a comprehensive list of introductory texts covering the full spectrum of Film Studies, including genres, critical concepts, film histories/movements and film technologies. Forthcoming June

Forthcoming May

Film Theory

International Politics and Film

Creating a Cinematic Grammar

Space, Vision, Power

Felicity Colman

Sean Carter and Klaus Dodds

Film Theory addresses the core concepts and arguments created or used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers, including the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane, Miriam Hansen, bell hooks, Siegfried Kracauer, Raul Ruiz, P. Adams Sitney, Bernard Stiegler, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. This volume takes the position that film theory is a form of writing that produces a unique cinematic grammar; and like all grammars, it forms part of the system of rules that govern a language, and is thus applicable to wider range of media forms. In their creation of authorial trends, identification of the technology of cinema as a creative force, and production of films as aesthetic markers, Coleman suggests that film theories contribute an epistemological resource that connects the technologies of filmmaking and film composition.

International Politics and Film introduces readers to the representational qualities of film but also draws attention to how the relationship between the visual and the spatial is constitutive of international politics. Using four themes – borders, the state of exception, homeland, and distant others – the territorial and imaginative dimensions of international affairs in particular are highlighted. But this volume also makes clear that international politics is not just something 'out there'; film helps us better understand how it is also part of everyday life within the state – affecting individuals and communities in different ways depending on axes of difference such as gender, race, class, age, and ethnicity. $20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-16971-4 May 2014 144 pages / 30 illus.

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The Sports Film

The Heist Film

Games People Play

Stealing With Style

Bruce Babington

Daryl Lee

After covering the genre's early history and theorizing its general characteristics, this volume then focuses on specific instances of sports films, such as the biopic, the sports history film, the documentary, the fan film, the boxing film, and explores issues such as gender, race, spectacle and silent comedy. Four major films are then closely analysed – Chariots of Fire, Field of Dreams, the Indian cricket epic Lagaan, and Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday. While recording American film's importance to the genre, the book resists the conventional over-concentration on American cinema and sports by its attention to other cinemas, for example the British, Indian, Australian, South Korean, Thai, German, New Zealand, Spanish, and so on, with the many different sports they depict. $20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-16965-3

A concise introduction to the genre about that one last big score, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style traces this crime thriller’s development as both a dramatic and comic vehicle growing out of film noir (Criss Cross, The Killers, The Asphalt Jungle), mutating into sleek capers in the 1960s (Ocean’s Eleven, Gambit, How to Steal a Million) and splashing across screens in the 2000s in remake after remake (The Thomas Crown Affair, The Italian Job, The Good Thief). Built around a series of case studies (Rififi, Bob le Flambeur, The Killing, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Getaway, the Ocean’s trilogy), this volume explores why directors of such varied backgrounds, from studio regulars (Siodmak, Crichton, Siegel, Walsh and Wise) to independents (Anderson, Fuller, Kubrick, Ritchie and Soderbergh), are so drawn to this popular genre.

2014 144 pages / 2 illus.

$20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-16969-1 2014 144 pages / 30 illus.

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The Vampire Film

Heritage Film

Undead Cinema

Nation, Genre, and Representation

Jeffrey Weinstock

Belén Vidal

International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Lord Ruthven Assembly award for best non-fiction title “A perfect introduction to the vampire subgenre that does not completely abandon historiography whilst vouching for a more organic thematic arrangement. Essential reading for vampire cinephiles and horror aficionados alike.” — The Gothic Imagination “Certain to provide a novel, penetrating look through the layers of meaning surrounding the bloodsucking undead.” — Rue Morgue “Challenging, elegant and persuasive.... an indispensable resource for vampire researchers, students and lovers alike.” — Isabella van Elferen, Utrecht University $20.00 /£14.00 paper 978-0-231-16201-2 2012 144 pages

“[A] lucid discussion of the debates surrounding one of the most contested concepts in film and television studies. . . . An invaluable introduction for students of national identity in film and television period drama.” — Pam Cook, University of Southampton This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical debates around the heritage film, from its controversial status in British cinema of the 1980s to its expansion into a versatile international genre in the 1990s and 2000s. Belén Vidal explores the heritage film in light of questions of national identity in film and television, industry and funding, and history, gender and representation. Case studies include: Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Joyeux Noël (2005) and The Queen (2006). $20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0231-16203-6 2012 144 pages / 12 illus.

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Bollywood Gods, Glamour, and Gossip Kush Varia "A passionate and engaging introduction to popular Hindi cinema. . . . Showing that there is much more to Indian cinema than lavish song and dance sequences, Bollywood: Gods, Glamour and Gossip demonstrates the diverse ways in which popular cinema can represent a negotiation between the forces of tradition and modernity." — Viewfinder “This accessibly written introduction to the joys of Bollywood is packed with lively and illuminating case studies and makes an ideal addition to the growing literature on Indian cinema.” — Stella Bruzzi, University of Warwick $20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-1-906660-15-4

Film Authorship Auteurs and Other Myths C. Paul Sellors Few topics in the study of film produce as much controversy as authorship. Critics, historians, and theoreticians heatedly debate film authors, arguing vociferously about the nature of film authorship and questioning whether films even have authors at all. Film Authorship evaluates these debates in a rigorous and accessible manner. Generously illustrated, the book analyzes the historical development and theoretical underpinnings of the concepts of film authorship and the auteur. It then examines recent theories of film authorship and proposes a reconceptualization that grounds the topic firmly in empirical analyses of film production. $20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-1-906660-24-6 2011 144 pages / 12 illus.

2013 144 pages

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QUEER CINEMA SCHOOLGIRLS, VAMPIRES AND GAY COWBOYS

BARBARA MENNEL

short cuts Queer Cinema

Action Movies

Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys

The Cinema of Striking Back Harvey O’Brien

Barbara Mennel "This short book will be a boon for film scholars looking to quickly survey and learn about the history of queer cinema. . . . Highly recommended." — Choice “This volume brings wonderful clarity to a complex field. In a historical framework with international perspective, the book explores an impressive breadth of representative films in their often controversial political, theoretical and aesthetic debates. And through all this, it certainly makes these readings about saucy daddies and friends of Dorothy a great pleasure.” — Randalll Halle, University of Pittsburgh $20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-16313-2 2012 224 pages / 12 illus.

“This smart, short introduction to the action film tackles the history, aesthetics and politics of an American genre that remains both extraordinarily visible and yet unexplored. It provides readers with a deftly argued account of the genre’s distinctive aesthetic and its complex involvement in cultural themes of trauma, violence, and redemption.” — Yvonne Tasker, University of East Anglia Action Movies explores the ethics and aesthetics of the action genre with reference to its relatively short history. It moves from seminal classics like Bullitt (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971) through epoch-defining films like Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Die Hard (1988) to revisions, reboots, and renewals in films like Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003), Taken (2008), and The Expendables (2010). $20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-16331-6 2012 160 pages / 12 illus.

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Nonfictions Nonfictions is a series exploring documentary films in all their diverse forms. From observational documentary to essay films, subjective cinema, factual programs, ethnographic films and media and reportage, the nonfictions series covers all aspects of this increasingly vibrant area of film culture.

KILLER IMAGES Documentary Film, Memory and the Performance of Violence

EDITED BY JORAM TEN BRINK & JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER

Killer Images Documentary Film, Memory and the Performance of Violence

Playing to the Camera Musicians and Musical Performance in Documentary Cinema

Edited by Joram Ten Brink and Joshua Oppenheimer

Thomas Cohen

Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the moving image is implicated in the imaginations and actions of perpetrators and survivors of violence is all the more urgent. Contributors explore such topics as the tension between remembrance and performance, the function of moving images in the execution of political violence, and nonfiction filmmaking methods that facilitate communities of survivors to respond to, recover, and redeem a history that sought to physically and symbolically annihilate them.

Playing to the Camera is the first full-length study devoted to the musical performance documentary. Its scope ranges from rock concert films to experimental video art featuring modernist music. Unlike the ‘music under’ produced for films by unseen musicians, on-screen ‘live’ performances show us the bodies that produce the sounds we hear. Exploring the link between moving images and musical movement as physical gesture, this volume asks why performance is so often derided as mere skill whereas composition is afforded the status of art, a question that opens onto a broader critique of attitudes regarding mental and physical labor in Western culture. $20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-1-906660-22-2

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16335-4

$60.00 / £35.00 cloth 978-1-906660-23-9

$80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16334-7

2012 224 pages / 12 illus.

2013 240 pages / 15 illus.

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Cultographies Cultographies provides a comprehensive introduction to those films which have attained the coveted status of cult classic, focusing on their particular appeal, the ways in which they have been conceived, constructed and received, and their place in the broader popular cultural landscape.

Frankenstein

Quadrophenia

Robert Horton

Stephen Glynn

James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931) spawned a phenomenon that has been rooted in world culture for decades. This cinematic Prometheus has generated countless sequels, remakes, rip-offs, and parodies in every media, and this granddaddy of cult movies constantly renews its followers in each generation. Along with an in-depth critical reading of the original 1931 film, this book tracks Frankenstein the monster’s heavy cultural tread from Mary Shelley’s source novel to today’s Internet chat rooms.

1964: Mods clash with Rockers in Brighton, creating a moral panic. 1973: ex-Mod band The Who release Quadrophenia, a concept album following young Mod Jimmy Cooper to the Brighton riots and beyond. 1979: Franc Roddam directs Quadrophenia, a film based on Pete Townshend's album narrative; its cult status is immediate. 2013: almost fifty years on from Brighton, this first academic study explores the lasting appeal of 'England's Rebel Without a Cause'. Stephen Glynn investigates academic, music, press, and fan-based responses.

$15.00/ £10.50 paper 978-0-231-16743-7 2014 128 pages / 30 illus.

$15.00/ £10.50 paper 978-0-231-16741-3 2014 144 pages / 40 illus.

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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Dean DeFino Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) is an enigma. A box-office failure when initially released on the grindhouse circuit, it has since been embraced by arthouse audiences, and referenced in countless films, television series, and songs. A riot of styles and story clichés lifted from biker, juvenile delinquency, and beach party movies, it has the coherence of a dream, and the improvisatory daring of a jazz solo. John Waters has called it the greatest movie ever made, and Quentin Tarantino has long promised to remake it. But what draws them, and so many other cult fans to Pussycat? To help answer that question, this book looks at the production and critical reception of the film, its place within the cultural history of the 1960s, its representations of gender and sexuality, and the specific ways it meets the criteria of a cult film.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Ian Cooper Upon its initial release, Sam Peckinpah´s notorious work took a critical and commercial nosedive, but in later years, the work was heralded as a demented masterpiece—a violent, hallucinatory autobiography and a brilliant example of “pure Peckinpah.” This study revisits the making of this controversial film, as well as its original reception and subsequent reassessment. It reads the project as an auteur work, a genre film, a confession, and a bizarre self-parody. $15.00 / £10.50 paper 978-1-906660-32-1 2011 128 pages

$15.00/ £10.50 paper 978-0-231-16739-0 2014 144 pages / 40 illus.

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Blade Runner

The Evil Dead

Matt Hills

Kate Egan

More than just a box office flop that resurrected itself in the midnight movie circuit, Blade Runner (1982) achieved extraordinary cult status through video, laserdisc, and a five-disc DVD collector’s set. Some have dubbed the movie “classroom cult” for its participation in academic debates, while others have termed it “meta-cult,” in line with the work of Umberto Eco. The film has also been called “design cult,” thanks to Ridley Scott’s brilliant creation of a Los Angeles in 2019, the graphics and props of which have been recreated by devoted fans. Blade Runner tests the limits of this authenticity and artificiality, challenging the reader to differentiate between classic and flop, margin and mainstream, true cult and its replicants.

Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981) has been celebrated as a rollercoaster ride of terror and a classic horror hit, a defining example of the tongue-in-cheek, excessively gory horror films of the 1980s. This study considers the factors that have contributed to the film’s evolving cult reputation. It recounts its grueling production, its journey from Cannes to video and DVD, its playful recasting of the genre, and its status, for fans and critics alike, as one of the grungiest, gutsiest, and most inventive horror films in movie history. $15.00/ £10.50 paper 978-1-906660-34-5 2011 128 pages

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WALLFLOWER PRESS (24 Frames)

24 Frames The 24 FRAMES series provides comprehensive overviews of national and regional cinemas from all over the world. Each volume focuses on 24 key feature films or documentaries that serve as entry points to the appreciation and study of the history, industry, social and political significance, and key directors and stars of every national cinema. These collections are each edited by renowned experts in their respective areas and offer a unique, text-centered insight into the history of global cinema.

The Cinema of Germany Joseph Garncarz and Annemone Ligensa "Thoughtful analysis that makes this a handy compendium. Highly recommended." — Choice "The volume could be used in conjunction with a course on German film and makes for interesting reading in its own right." — Seminar $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-1-905674-90-9 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-1-905674-91-6 2012 288 pages

The Cinema of China and South East Asia Edited by Ian Hadyn Smith Over the past three decades, films from China and South East Asia have become a major component of international festivals. The Chinese Fifth and Sixth Generations, Taiwanese New Wave, and many other movements not only highlight the rise of new and exciting filmmakers, but they also draw attention to the region’s rich cinematic past. China and South East Asia is the latest in Wallflower Press’s 24 Frames series on national and regional cinemas, considering, through the prism of twenty-four compelling films, the changing face of the region’s output over the past eighty years. $29.50 / £20.50 paper 9781906660079 $90.00 / £62.00 cloth 9781906660086 2013 288 pages

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AUTEUR PUBLISHING (Devil's Advocates' Series)

“The Devil’s Advocates’ truly are a lovely series of books, a welcome addition to any film fan’s collection.” — Horror Talk

Halloween

The Thing

Murray Leeder

Jez Conolly

The 1970s represented an unusually productive and innovative period for the horror film, and John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) is the film that capped that golden age – and some say ruined it, by ushering in the era of the slasher film. Considered a paradigm of low-budget ingenuity, its story of a seemingly unremarkable middle-American town becoming the site of violence on October 31 struck a chord within audiences. The film became a surprise hit that gave rise to a lucrative franchise, and it remains a perennial favorite. Film scholar Murray Leeder offers a bold and provocative study of Carpenter’s film, which hopes to expose qualities that are sometime effaced by its sequels and remakes. It explores Halloween as an unexpected ghost film, and examines such subjects as its construction of the teenager, and the relationship of Halloween the film to Halloween the holiday, and Michael Myers’s brand of “pure evil.” It is a fascinating read for scholars and fans alike.

Consigned to the deep freeze of critical and commercial reception upon its release in 1982, The Thing has bounced back spectacularly to become one of the most highly regarded productions from the 1980s ‘Body Horror’ cycle of films, experiencing a wholesale and detailed reappraisal that has secured its place in the pantheon of modern cinematic horror. Thirty years on, and with a recent prequel reigniting interest, Jez Conolly looks back to the film’s antecedents and to the changing nature of its reception and the work that it has influenced. The themes discussed include the significance of The Thing’s subversive antipodal environment, the role that the film has played in the corruption of the onscreen monstrous form, the qualities that make it an exemplar of the director’s work, and the relevance of its legendary visual effects despite the advent of CGI.

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Carrie

The Descent

Neil Mitchell

James Marriott

Brian DePalma's film, Carrie ,was an enormous commercial and critical success and is still one of the finest screen adaptations of a King novel. This contribution to the Devil's Advocates series not only breaks the film down into its formal componenets—its themes, stylistic tropes, technical approaches, uses of color and sound, dialogue, and visual symbolism—but also considers a multitude of other factors contributing to the work's classic status. The act of adapting King's novel for the big screen, the origins of the novel itself, the place of Carrie in De Palma's oeuvre, the subsequent versions and sequel, and the social, political, and cultural climate of the era (including the influence of second wave feminism, loosening sexual norms, and changing representations of adolescence), as well as the explosion of interest in and the evolution of the horror genre during the decade, are all shown to have played an important part in the film's success and enduring reputation.

The story of an all-female caving expedition gone horribly wrong, The Descent (2005) is arguably the best of the mid-2000s horror entries to return verve and intensity to the genre. Unlike its peers Saw (2004), Hostel (2011), etc.), The Descent was both commercially and critically popular, providing a genuine version of what other films could only produce as pastiche. For Mark Kermode, writing in the Observer, it was “one of the best British horror films of recent years,” and Derek Elley in Variety described it as “an object lesson in making a tightlybudgeted, no-star horror pic.” Emphasizing female characters and camaraderie, The Descent is an ideal springboard for discussing underexplored horror themes: the genre’s engagement with the lure of the archaic; the idea of birth as the foundational human trauma and its implications for horror film criticism; and the use of provisional worldviews, or “rubber realities,” in horror. $15.00 / £10.50 paper 978-1-906733-50-6 2013 112 pages / 20 illus

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The Silence of the Lambs

SAW

Barry Forshaw

Ben Poole

The 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs, based on Thomas Harris’s bestseller, was a game-changer in the fields of both horror and crime cinema. FBI trainee Clarice Starling was a new kind of heroine, vulnerable, intuitive, and in a deeply unhealthy relationship with her monstrous helper/ opponent, the serial killer Hannibal Lecter. Jonathan Demme’s film skillfully appropriated the tropes of police procedural, gothic melodrama and contemporary horror and produced something entirely new. The resulting film was both critically acclaimed and massively popular, and went on to have an enormous influence on 1990s genre cinema. Crime and horror authority Barry Forshaw closely examines the factors that contributed to the film’s impact, including the revelatory performances of Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins in the lead roles.

“A thought-provoking introduction to one of the most important horror moments of the last decade.”— The Gothic Imagination “[SAW] provides an in-depth mix of synopsis, history, criticism and analysis. . . . The Devil’s Advocates truly are a lovely series of books – a welcome addition to any film fan’s collection.” — Horror Talk $15.00 / £10.50 paper 978-1-906733-56-8 2012 112 pages / 20 illus. Auteur Publishing

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre James Rose “In-depth, elegant, focused . . . . Like any good film criticism/appreciation book, it leaves you wanting to revisit the movie as soon as possible.” — Horror Talk “You may think you know Hooper’s film, but after reading this Devil’s Advocate dissection you will look upon it in a whole new light.” — Starburst Magazine $15.00 / £10.50 paper 978-1-906733-64-3 2013 112 pages / 20 illus.

Witchfinder General Ian Cooper Witchfinder General (1968), known as The Conqueror Worm in America, was directed by Michael Reeves and occupies a unique place in British cinema. Equally praised and vilified, the film fictionalizes the exploits of Matthew Hopkins, a prolific, real-life “witch hunter,” during the English Civil War. For critic Mark Kermode, the release proved to be “the single most significant horror film produced in the United Kingdom in the 1960s,” while playwright Alan Bennett called the work “the most persistently sadistic and rotten film I’ve ever seen.” Steadily gaining a cult reputation, unimpeded by the director’s death just months after the film’s release, the film is now treated as a landmark, though problematic, accomplishment, as it exists in a number of recut, retitled, and rescored versions. This in-depth study positions the film within the history of horror and discusses its importance as a British and heritage film. It also considers the inheritance of Hopkins, the script’s relationship to the novel by Ronald Bassett, and the iconic persona of the film’s star, Vincent Price. $15.00 / £9.99 paper 978-1-906733-51-3 2011 128 pages, 10 illus.

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AUTEUR PUBLISHING (Splice) Splice Series Edited by John Atkinson Splice bridges the gap between contemporary cinema and intelligent discourse. Facilitating the study of contemporary cinema, it offers a practical solution for teachers and students of film studies, media studies, and related disciplines.

Splice: Volume 7 issue 1

Splice: Volume 6 issue 2

Tim Burton The latest issue of Splice, the journal for all those using popular cinema in the classroom, focuses on the work of one of the most successful and studied directors at work today, Tim Buton. Articles in the issue cover Edward Scissorhands, Burton’s Batman films, and Sleepy Hollow, covering such themes as mental illness and the representation of disability in his work. $15.00 / £14.00 paper 978-1-906733-78-0 2014 90 pages / 30 illus.

Sports on Film The second issue of Splice Volume 6 is a ‘Sport on film’-themed issue, which includes a major piece on the film Moneyball, an essay that considers the relationship between fiction and documentary movies and the Olympics (Olympia, Chariots of Fire, One Day in September) and the depiction of sport in films that would not normally be categorized as ‘sports films’ (such as Point Break). $15.00 / £14.00 paper 978-1-906733-62-9 2012 112 pages / 20 illus.

Splice: Volume 6 issue 1 The Documentary $15.00 / £14.00 paper 978-1-906733-61-2

Splice: Volume 5 issue 3

2012 100 pages / 20 illus.

War

Splice: Volume 6 issue 3 Prison on Film

$15.00 / £14.00 paper 978-1-906733-53-7 2012 100 pages

$15.00 / £14.00 paper 978-1-906733-63-6 2013 112 pages / 20 illus.

Splice: Volume 5 issue 1

Splice: Volume 5 issue 2 Film Adaptations

Remakes

$15.00 / £14.00 paper 978-1-906733-54-4

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2011 116 pages / 20 illus.

2010 128 pages / 10 illus.

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FILM DIRECTORS Forthcoming May

The Cinema of James Cameron

The Cinema of Agnès Varda

Bodies in Heroic Motion

Resistance and Eclecticism

James Clarke

Delphine Benezet

This timely volume explores the massively popular cinema of writer-director James Cameron. It couches Cameron's films within the evolving generic traditions of science fiction, melodrama, and the cinema of spectacle. The book also considers Cameron's engagement with the aesthetic of visual effects and the 'now' technology of performance-capture which is arguably moving a certain kind of event-movie cinema from photography to something more akin to painting. This book is explicit in presenting Cameron as an authentic auteur, and each chapter is dedicated to a single film in his body of work. Space is also given to discussion of Strange Days as well as his documentary works.

Agnès Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, filmmakers, and audiences alike, as audacious, seminal, and unforgettable. This volme considers her production as a whole, revisiting overlooked films like Mur, Murs/Documenteur (1980–81), and connecting her cinema to recent installation work. This study demonstrates how Varda has resisted norms of representation and diktats of production. It also shows how she has elaborated a personal repertoire of images, characters, and settings, which all provide insight on their cultural and political contexts. The book thus offers new readings of this director’s multifaceted rêveries, arguing that her work should be seen as an aesthetically influential and ethically-driven production where cinema is both a political and collaborative practice, and a synesthetic art form.

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16977-6 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16976-9 May 2014 224 page / 50 Illus. Wallflower Press

$25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16975-2 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16974-5 2014 208 page Wallflower Press

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Figures of Paradox

The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom

Jeremi Szaniawski

Borders, Intimacy, Terror

The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov

Bruce Bennett "Sokurov’s work is prodigious, historically fundamental, formally path-breaking, and at the same time virtually unknown in the West. Certainly it needs a popular general introduction, but it is rare for so thorough a volume as this by Jeremi Szaniawski to offer so thought-provoking and novel an interpretation at one and the same time. His proposal to sort Sokurov’s production into cycles is extraordinarily helpful, while his technical commentaries on these films will be indispensable to the layman. This exciting book is a marker with which all future students of Sokurov will have to come to terms; its accounts of cultural, political and literary contexts will be as illuminating to the nonspecialist reader as its history of production will for film studies." — Fredric Jameson, Duke University $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16735-2

"In The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom, Bruce Bennett offers a tour de force examination of the regimes of visibility and invisibility in the British director’s rich and heterogeneous body of work, exploring the ways in which these films traverse and question the political, institutional, and aesthetic boundaries of the nation. Seducing his readers with eloquence and methodological rigor, Bennett analyzes the complexity of Winterbottom’s cinema through a careful look at the interrelated themes of borderlands, abject border zones, ideologies of race and violence, intimacy, the politics of mobility, and the War on Terror. This is a brilliant, highly readable book that offers an insightful commentary on the intricacies of the political climate we live in." — Katarzyna Marciniak, Ohio University $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16737-6

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2014 256 page / 20 Illus.

2013 224 page / 20 Illus.

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FILM DIRECTORS

The Cinema of Terry Gilliam

The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz

It's a Mad World

Impossible Cartographies

Edited by Jeff Birkenstein, Anna Froula, and

Michael Goddard

Karen Randell "A superb examination of a maverick artist.... Highly recommended." — Choice Terry Gilliam has been making movies for more than forty years, and this volume analyzes a selection of his thrilling directorial work, from his early films with Monty Python to The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnussus (2009). The frenetic genius, auteur, and social critic continues to create indelible images on screen--if, that is, he can get funding for his next project. Featuring eleven original essays from an international group of scholars, this collection argues that when Gilliam makes a movie, he goes to war: against Hollywood caution and convention, against American hyper-consumerism and imperial militarism, against narrative vapidity and spoon-fed mediocrity, and against the brutalizing notion and cruel vision of the "American Dream." $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16535-8

"The cinema of Raúl Ruiz is well known to all true cinephiles, but until now has gone under-analysed – effectively buried under the lamentably vague adjective 'Ruizian'. In the first single-authored English-language book on this great director, Michael Goddard expertly sifts through the many styles, contexts and personae of Ruiz: from Chilean radical to European artist, from no-budget experimentalist to wily entertainer, from theorist to storyteller. Using the lens of an ‘impossible cartography’, Goddard redraws all the maps we have used to grasp this most elusive and protean of international filmmakers – and concludes with a splendid, mindexpanding dialogue with Ruiz." — Adrian Martin, Goethe University and co-author with Raúl Ruiz of Magnificent Obsessions $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16731-4 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16730-7 2013 224 page / 25 Illus. Wallflower Press

$75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16534-1 2013 256 page / 15 Illus. Wallflower Press

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The Cinema of Béla Tarr

The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki

The Circle Closes

Contrarian Stories

András Bálint Kovács

Andrew Nestingen

The Cinema of Béla Tarr is a critical analysis of the work of Hungary’s most prominent and internationally best known film director, written by a scholar who has followed Bela Tarr’s career through a close personal and professional relationship for more than twenty-five years. András Bálint Kovács traces the development of Tarr's themes, characters, and style, showing that almost all of his major stylistic and narrative innovations were already present in his early films and that through a conscious and meticulous recombination of and experimentation with these elements, Tarr arrived at his unique style. The significance of these films is that, beyond their aesthetic and historical value, they provide the most powerful vision of an entire region and its historical situation. Tarr's films express, in their universalistic language, the shared feelings of millions of Eastern Europeans. $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16531-0 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16530-3 2013 256 page / 25 Illus. Wallflower Press

"In this engaging investigation of the aesthetics and the interpretive frames of Aki Kaurismäki’s films, Andrew Nestingen scrutinizes the conventional readings of Kaurismäki as a romantic outsider, an idiosyncratic Finn and a social critic – and goes beyond them. Nestingen discusses Kaurismäki’s filmmaking at the intersection of national film culture and politics, transnational festival circuits and world cinema market, offering it not as a case of Finnish or European cinema but as an illustrative case of the multi-local and multinational composition of all national cinemas. In Nestingen’s account, Kaurismäki stands out as an auteur of contemporary world cinema, a director whose films trade in contradictions, engage with multiple times and places and speak in several registers. An essential reading for critics, scholars and fans alike, this book will be formative for the way we think about the cinema of Aki Kaurismäki, and about the cinemas of small-nations." — Anu Koivunen, Stockholm University $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16559-4 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16558-7 2013 224 page / 24 Illus. Wallflower Press

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FILM DIRECTORS

The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh

The Cinema of Richard Linklater

Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape

Walk, Don't Run

Andrew deWaard and R. Colin Tait Preface by Thomas Schatz

"[An] excellent book on this maverick, shape-shifting filmmaker. . . . Immaculately researched and illustrated with frame blowups throughout the text, the volume is an important contribution to the field. . . . Highly recommended." — Choice The industry’s only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actoreditor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood’s most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme d’or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments, esoteric documentaries, global blockbusters, and a series of atypical genre films. This volume considers its slippery subject from several perspectives, analyzing Soderbergh as an expressive auteur of art cinema and genre fare, as a politically-motivated guerrilla filmmaker, and as a Hollywood insider. $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16551-8 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16550-1 2013 256 page / 25 Illus. Wallflower Press

Rob Stone "Stone's excellent book covers the director's entire career with skill and insight, illustrated with numerous stills throughout...an excellent course text, written in direct, accessible language." — Choice The From Slacker (1991) to The School of Rock (2003), from Before Sunrise (1995) to Before Sunset (2004), from the walking and talking of his no/low-budget American independent films to conversing with the philosophical traditions of the European art house, Richard Linklater's films are some of the most critical, political, and spiritual achievements of contemporary world cinema. Examinations of Linklater’s collaborative working practices and deployment of rotoscoping and innovative distribution strategies all feature in this book. Informed by a series of original interviews with the artist, in both his hometown and frequent film location of Austin, Texas, this study of the director who made Dazed and Confused (1993), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and Bernie (2011) explores the theoretical, practical, contextual, and metaphysical elements of these works along with his documentaries and side-projects. $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16553-2 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16552-5 2013 192 pages / 20 Illus. Wallflower Press

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The Cinema of Michael Mann

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano

Vice and Vindication

Flowering Blood

Jonathan Rayner

Sean Redmond

"This volume doesn’t simply narrate the story of Mann’s films, it provides us with a thoroughly grounded exploration, an informed and passionate study that is as revealing as it is engaging." — Graeme Harper, Oakland University Th Michael Mann is one of the most important American filmmakers of the past forty years. His films exhibit the existential concerns of art cinema, articulated through a conspicuous and recognizable visual style and yet integrated within classical Hollywood narrative and genre frameworks. This volume offers a detailed study of Mann's feature films, from The Jericho Mile (1979) to Public Enemies (2009), with consideration also being given to parallels in the production, style, and characterization in his television work. It explores Mann's relationship with classical genres, his thematic concentration on issues of morality and masculinity, his film adaptations from literature, and the development and significance of his trademark visual style within modern American cinema. $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16729-1 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16728-4

“An imaginatively written self-reflexive academic’s journey through the films of Kitano Takeshi.” — Isolde Standish, School of Oriental and African Studies “A bold and provocative attempt at pinning down this most mercurial and misunderstood of Japanese directors.” — Midnight Eye This volume is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan’s finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The volume uniquely explores Kitano’s oeuvre through the tropes of stillness and movement, becoming animal, melancholy and loss, intensity, schizophrenia, and radical alterity; and through the aesthetic temperatures of color, light, camera movement, performance and urban and oceanic space. All of Kitano’s films are given due consideration, including A Scene at the Sea (1991), Sonatine (1993), Dolls (2002), and Outrage (2010). $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16333-0 $80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16332-3 2013 256 pages / 20 Illus. Wallflower Press

2013 240 page / 20 Illus. Wallflower Press

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FILM DIRECTORS

The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers

The Cinema of Michael Haneke

Responsible Realism

Edited by Ben McCann and David Sorfa

Philip Mosley “A brilliant account of the Dardenne brothers’ cinema is immediately the standard Anglophone text on these most important filmmakers. The Dardennes’ politically engaged social realism and their concern with the pauperized victims of global capital are beautifully complemented by the precise lucidity of the author’s prose, the nuance of his textual analysis, and his provocative but non-dogmatic social theory.” — David James, University of Southern California $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16329-3 $80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-0-231-16328-6 2013 256 pages, 20 Illus. Wallflower Press

Europe Utopia

“Haneke deserves this collection of farranging, sophisticated, and allusive scholarship. The book should deepen any critical approach to his work...Highly recommended.” — Choice This collection celebrates, explicates, and sometimes challenges the worldview of Haneke’s films. It examines the director’s central themes and preoccupations-bourgeois alienation, modes and critiques of spectatorship, the role of the media--and analyzes otherwise marginalized aspects of his work, such as the function of performance and stardom, early Austrian television productions, the romanticism of The Piano Teacher (2001), and the 2007 shot-forshot remake of Funny Games $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-1-906660-29-1 $7500 / £52.00 cloth 978-1-906660-30-7 2012 256 pages Wallflower Press

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Joe Dante

Michael Pilz [German Language Edition]

Edited by Nil Baskar and Gabe Klinger

Auge Kamera Herz In the often dreary landscape of Hollywood's blockbuster era, the cinema of Joe Dante has always stood out as a rare beacon of fearless originality. Blending humor with terror and trenchant political satire with sincere tributes to the moviegoing act itself, the "Dante touch" is best described as a free-for-all orgy of movies, memories and mischief. For the first time, this colourful universe - from Hollywood Boulevard to Gremlins to Small Soldiers and beyond - is comprehensively explored in an English language volume featuring a career-encompassing interview, new essays by Michael Almereyda, Jim Hoberman, Christoph Huber, Gabe Klinger, Violeta Kovacsics, Bill Krohn, Dušan Rebolj, John Sayles, and Mark Cotta Vaz, as well as a treasure trove of never-before-seen documents and illustrations. $32.50 / £22.50 paper 978-3-901644-52-8 2013 256 pages / 170 illus.

Edited by Olaf Möller and Michael Omasta Born in a small town in Lower Austria, Michael Pilz has realized over 100 films since the 1960s. His breakthrough came with a veritable massif central of European documentary cinema: Heaven and Earth (1979-82), an epic work about the Styrian mountain village of St. Anna. Since then, he has been a "solitary man", crossing the borders between film forms just as easily as those between art, cinema, life. This richly illustrated book is the first monograph about Michael Pilz. It includes several essays dealing with his work, an extensive conversation, selected texts and film treatments written by him, and a complete annotated filmography. $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-3-901644-29-0 2013 288 pages Austrian Film Museum Books

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FILM DIRECTORS

Romuald Karmakar [German Language Edition]

Dominik Graf [German Language Edition]

Edited by Olaf Möller and Michael Omasta

Christoph Huber and Olaf Möller

Romuald Karmakar’s work in the fields of fiction and documentary holds a unique place in European film. It also stands in clear opposition to the dominant ways of the German film industry - both aesthetically and in its head-on treatment of several sore spots in German history. Time and again the 45-year-old director has engaged with "impossible" characters and "borderline" subjects: mercenaries, a notorious Nazi speech, the terror of being in a relationship, an imprisoned serial killer, or what it means to truly experience electronic and techno music. The book presents Karmakar’s work in its entirety for the first time. It includes a 130-page essay by Olaf Möller, several conversations with the artist, an annotated filmography, and selected writings by Romuald Karmakar, including a number of unproduced treatments.

Dominik Graf, an exception in the film/ television business, is a man of many parts. This is precisely what makes him so fascinating. He is a genre filmmaker, who guilefully attained freedom from within the rigid confines of television, and wrote (German) TV history with his episodes of Der Fahnder and Tatort. His sole commercial hit in theatres, Die Katze, has developed into a veritable “generational text”. He is an auteur filmmaker in the spirit of the nouvelle vague or New Hollywood, who made waves with such masterpieces as Spieler, Der Felsen, Die Freunde der Freunde, or Das Gelübde. He is also a wonderful writer on film – and a polemical commentator of recent German history. However, these parts cannot be separated so clearly, something which this book explains through an essay by Christoph Huber, an richly annotated filmography by Olaf Müller and an in-depth interview with Dominik Graf by both authors.

$33.00 / £23.00 paper 978-3-901644-34-4 2013 255 pages Austrian Film Museum Books

$33.00 / £23.00 paper 978-3-901644-48-1 2013 208 pages Austrian Film Museum Books

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Jean Epstein [German Language Edition] Bonjour cinéma und andere Schriften zum Kino Edited by Nicole Brenez and Ralph Eue "Intellectual euphoria is maybe the most outstanding quality of Jean Epstein’s writings. In compelling fashion, this book makes his important theoretical oeuvre accessible for the first time in German." — Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Jean Epstein, the great unknown amongst the pioneers of independent filmmaking, was also an essential figure in the invention of modern cinema — both as a theorist and as an artist. For the first time, a selection of Epstein's writings on film are published in German in this volume. Nicole Brenez' essay on Epstein contextualizes his achievements. $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-3-901644-25-2 2013 160 pages Austrian Film Museum Books

A Post-May Adolescence Letter to Alice Debord Olivier Assayas Olivier Assayas is best known as a filmmaker, yet cinema makes only a late appearance in this volume. A Post-May Adolescence is an account of a personal formation, an initiation into an individual vision of the world. It is, equally, a record of youthful struggle. Assayas’ reflective memoir takes the reader from the massive cultural upheaval of France in May 1968 to the mid-1990s, when the artist made his first autobiographical film about his teenage years, L’Eau froide. The movement of thought and creation known as Situationism is the golden thread that connects and, in part, inspires his memoir. This book also includes two essays by Assayas on the aesthetic and political legacy of Guy Debord, who played a decisive role in shaping the author’s understanding of the world and his path towards an extremely personal way of making films. A Post-May Adolescence was first published in French in 2005. Its expanded English edition makes a valuable companion to the first English-language volume on Assayas’ body of work. $18.00 / £12.50 paper 978-3-901644-44-3 2012 104 pages Austrian Film Museum Books

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Olivier Assayas Edited by Kent Jones Over the past few decades, French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has become a powerful force in contemporary cinema. Between his first feature Désordre (1986) and such major works as L’Eau froide, Irma Vep, Les Destinées Sentimentales, demonlover and, most recently, L’Heure d’été and Carlos, he has charted an exciting path, strongly embracing narrative and character and simultaneously dealing with the ‘fragmentary reality’ of life in a global economy. He also brought a fresh perspective to the problem of politics after ‘68, a subject that he revisits in his memoir A Post-May Adolescence (published as a companion book to this volume) and in his most recent film Après-Mai. This first English-language book about Olivier Assayas includes a major essay by Kent Jones, based on his two decades of correspondence and exchanges of ideas with the filmmaker, as well as contributions from Assayas and his most important artistic collaborators. $30.00 / £20.50 paper 978-3-901644-43-6 2012 256 pages / 100 illus. Austrian Film Museum Books

Hitchcock Annual Anthology Selected Essays from Volumes 10 – 15 Edited by Richard Allen and Sidney Gottlieb Offering groundbreaking and authoritative scholarship on Alfred Hitchcock, The Hitchcock Annual Anthology is the journal of record for Hitchcock studies. The Anthology features contributions from such leading critics as Charles Barr, Thomas Elsaesser, Bill Krohn, Mark Rappaport, Michael Walker, Robin Wood, and Slavoj Zizek. It includes essays on Hitchcock’s entire oeuvre, from his early silents to his late American masterpieces, and overviews of Hitchcock criticism, as well as interviews with and discussions between Hitchcock’s collaborators. $26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-1-905674-95-4 $80.00 / £55.00 cloth 978-1-905674-96-1 2009 224 pages Wallflower Press

Hitchcock Annual Volume 18 Hitchcock Annual: Volume 18 features essays on Hitchcock and Italian art cinema; the cinematic and cultural context of Hitchcock’s silent film, Champagne (1928); Marnie (1964) and queer theory; the use of newspapers in Hitchcock’s films; and Hitchcock’s wartime documentary work. $26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-16367-5 . 2013 224 pages /12 illus

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Volume 14

Volume 09

$24.00 / £16.50 paper 978-1-906660-04-8

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2008 192 pages / 12 illus.

Volume 15 Volume 10

$24.00 / £16.50 paper 978-1-906660-05-5

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2008 192 pages /12 illus.

2008 192 pages / 12 illus.

Volume 16 Volume 11

$26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-1-906660-21-5 2010 178 pages / 12 illus.

$24.00 / £16.50 paper 978-1-906660-01-7 2008 192 pages / 12 illus.

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Volume 12

2012 224 pages / 12 illus

$26.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-16002-5

$24.00 / £16.50 paper 978-1-906660-02-4 2008 192 pages / 12 illus.

Volume 13 $24.00 / £16.50 paper 978-1-906660-03-1 2008 192 pages / 12 illus.

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Dekalog 5

Dekalog 4

On Dogville

On East Asian Filmmakers

Edited by Sara Fortuna and Laura Scuriatti

Edited by Kate E Taylor

On Dogville is the result of the lively debates prompted by Lars von Trier’s film amongst its wide and diverse public. The essays in the volume have been written by authors from across Europe interested in different theoretical approaches and perspectives, ranging from philosophy and ethics to film history, critical theory, gender and media studies, and linguistics. The volume presents the reader with a plurivocal account of the film’s context and its relevance to the discussions on various topical issues in contemporary culture. Each chapter focuses on one or more aspects of the film, building on specific concepts and theoretical frames such as the Marxist paradigm of objectification, Girard’s theory of violence, Deleuze’s philosophy of film, the theological category of grace, the concept of integrity, Wittgenstein’s reflections on ‘seeing-as’ and aspect change, and, finally, feminist critique to Jakobson’s linguistic theories.

East Asian cinema has become a worldwide phenomenon, and directors such as Park Chan-wook, Wong Kar Wai, and Takashi Miike have become household names. Dekalog 4: On East Asian Filmmakers solicits scholars from Japan, Hong Kong, Switzerland, North America, and the U.K. to offer unique readings of selected East Asian directors and their works. Directors examined include Zhang Yimou, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Rithy Panh, Kinji Fukasaku, and Jia Zhangke, and the volume also includes one of the first surveys of Japanese and Chinese female filmmakers. $20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-1-906660-31-4 2012 164 pages Wallflower Press

$20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-16311-8 2012 144 pages / 10 illus. Wallflower Press

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Storytelling in World Cinemas Vol. 1 Forms

Screen Dynamics

Storytelling in World Cinemas Vol. 2

Mapping the Borders of Cinema Edited by Gertrud Koch, Volker Pantenburg, and Simon Rothöhler “A wide-ranging survey perfect for college-level film holdings.” — Midwest Book Review From moving images on the Internet to giant IMAX displays: The number of screens in the public and private sphere has increased significantly during the last two decades. While this is often taken to indicate the “death of cinema,” this volume attempts to reconsider the limits and specifics of film and the traditional movie theater. It analyzes notions of spectatorship, the relationship between cinema and the “uncinematic,” the contested place of installation art in the history of experimental cinema, and the characteristics of the high definition image. Further contributions discuss the ways in which cinema interacts with other arts and media such as theater and television. Contributors include Raymond Bellour, Victor Burgin, Vinzenz Hediger, Tom Gunning, Ute Holl, Ekkehard Knörer, Thomas Morsch, Jonathan Rosenbaum and the editors.

Contexts Edited by Lina Khatib Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 1: Forms is an innovative collection of essays that discuss how different cinemas of the world tell stories. The book locates European, Asian, African, and Latin American films within their wider cultural and artistic frameworks, showing how storytelling forms in cinema are infused with influences from other artistic, literary, and oral traditions. Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 2: Contexts draws on films from all five continents approaching storytelling from a cultural/ historical multidisciplinary perspective. The volume focuses on the influence of cultural politics, postcolonialism, women’s social and cultural positions, and religious contexts on film stories. Vol. 1 $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16205-0 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16204-3 2012 240 pages / 30 illus.

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Screening Torture

Moving Data

Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination

The iPhone and the Future of Media

Edited by Michael Flynn and Fabiola F. Salek “Adds breath and freshness to the analysis of media representations of state terror and political violence." — DigitalIcons "Thoughtful, insightful, and compelling . . . . Flynn and Salek have gathered together a collection of essays that will have wide appeal to communication scholars, film scholars and graduate students." — Journal of Communication This volume follows the shift in the representation of torture over the past decade, specifically in documentary, action, and political films. It traces and compares the development of this trend in films from the United States, Europe, China, Latin America, South Africa, and the Middle East. $29.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-15359-1 $89.50 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-15358-4 2012 328 pages / 17 illus

Edited by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau A Choice Outstanding Academic Title “The well-written essays in this wonderful little book range from insightful to downright fun...Highly recommended.” — Choice “Readers interested in the impact of digital media will find in this collection a rich source of new ideas and perspectives.” — PsycCritiques “Like the iPhone itself, Moving Data provides a panoply of options for the interested reader. Detailed without falling into homage, this volume should appeal to technology historians and ultural critics alike.” —Mobile Media and Communication “An extremely useful and timely collection with a range of essays that do justice to the multifaceted possibilities bound together as the iPhone.” — William Uricchio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Comparative Media Studies $29.50 / £20.50

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Communication of Love Mediatized Intimacy from Love Letters to SMS. Interdisciplinary and Historical Studies Edited by Eva Lia Wyss By the end of the twentieth century certain new media had established themselves which have profoundly changed communication among lovers. SMS and email in particular have created new relational forms and forms of intimacy. From declarations of love on talk shows to televised dating games and marriage quiz shows, television offers a panoply of wildly popular theatrical communications of love. Does the neglecting of traditional communication media, such as love letters and the telephone, cause the intermingling of intimacy with the public sphere and hence the abrogation of it? From the disciplines of sociology, history, cultural and media studies and linguistics, this book offers answers to this question by analyzing and discussing new media from various perspectives.

FabLab Of Machines, Makers, and Inventors Edited by Julia Walter-Herrmann and Corinne B端ching It has only been ten years since MIT opened its first fabrication laboratory. Today, more than 120 FabLabs exist worldwide. Experts from Germany, India, and the U.S. discuss the small production devices, such as laser cutters and 3D printers, and the educationists, researchers, and FabLab practitioners who have transformed learning, work, production, design, consumer culture, law, and science on a global scale. $40.00 paper 978-3-8376-2382-6 2014 262 pages / 44 illus. Transcript-Verlag

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Precarious Alliances

Media in China, China in the Media

Cultures of Participation in Print and Other Media

Processes, Strategies, Images, Identities

Edited by Martin Butler, Albrecht Hausmann, and Anton Kirchhofer Beginning with an analysis of participation practices in contemporary print and other media, this volume expands historical perspectives by exploring the potential of participatory cultures to illuminate past forms of collaboration between individual and collective actors (i.e. authors, editors, publishers, fans, critics, etc.). In doing so, the volume sheds new light on the historically, culturally, and medially specific forms and functions, as well as on the economic, political, and institutional parameters, contributing to the emergence and transformation of what turn out to be precarious alliances. $50.00 paper 978-3-8376-2318-5 2014 300 pages Transcript-Verlag

Edited by Adina Zemanek Mass media play a significant role in the production and reproduction of identities and lifestyles, values and world-views. They also convey information about the world we live in, as they reflect elements of the broader context within which they come into being. This volume, the first on this topic to be published in Poland, brings together eleven essays that offer a complex approach to both media in the PRC and the way China and the Chinese are presented in the media of other countries. Individual chapters discuss images constructed, persuasive techniques employed, political undertakings and official stances reflected, as well as popular feeling expressed in the Chinese official and popular press, information websites, Internet forums, mainstream Western press, Polish and Italian media, Zambian Internet forums, and Indonesian cinema. $42.00 / ÂŁ29.00 paper 978-83-233-3621-1 2014 208 pages Jagiellonian University Press

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Hong Kong Media Law A Guide for Journalists and Media Professionals Second Edition Doreen Weisenhaus, with contributions by Rick

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The Art of Reverse Engineering Open – Dissect – Rebuild Edited by Günther Friesinger and Jana Herwig Reverse engineering breaks down an existing object or system according to its construction and then rebuilds it based on new demands. The process encourages creative appropriation while democratizing knowledge. Contributors apply reverse engineering to art, science, and politics and highlight the importance of access, knowledge, and skills to reshaping our present and the future. $50.00 paper 978-3-8376-2503-5 2014 300 pages / 40 illus.

“Maybe Edward Snowden read the first edition of Hong Kong Media Law and that was why he knew of our ‘strong tradition of free speech’ and had ‘faith in Hong Kong’s rule of law.’ But now after 15 years of Chinese sovereignty, the second edition tells us that these values are being tested. Post-Snowden, the world will learn more about Hong Kong's true state of media freedom from reading this excellent book.”—Simon NM Young, University of Hong Kong Topics in this second edition of Hong Kong Media Law include :defamation, court reporting, privacy, access to information, copyright, newsgathering and reporting restrictions and more. The book also examines legal hurdles Hong Kong and international journalists face while reporting on the mainland of the People’s Republic of China. $35.00 / £24.00 paper 978-988-8208-09-8 $75.00 / £52.00

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Teaching the Music Press Cath Davies with Christine Bell

Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Volume 2

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Film, Pleasure, and Digital Culture

The first issue of Billboard magazine was published in the United States in 1894 and, over a century later, the music press is still going strong, albeit in a number of different permutations. Teaching the Music Press provides a detailed profile of the contemporary music publication market and highlights all the pertinent Media Studies issues that arise. Author Cath Davies provides a detailed selection of case studies, from Kerrang! to Top of the Pops magazine, which assess historical background, mode of address, content and approach to music, stresses the integration of historical perspectives into the teaching of contemporary examples, offers a wideranging selection of over 30 worksheets to enable the delivery of all the relevant areas in the classroom, and includes a suggested scheme of work for planning lessons on the music press.

Edited by Scott Balcerzak and Jason Sperb

$50.00 / £34.50 paper 978-1-906733-66-7 2013 2o illus. Auteur Publishing

Much has shifted since the emergence of the first volume of Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction; many of the postmillennial innovations in digital cinema and digital culture which prompted its publication have today become commonplace to the point of invisibility. This development ironically evokes memories of the classic Hollywood continuity system, a structure designed to close off space for the discussion of politics, identity, or history. This new volume seeks to illuminate those larger historical and global contexts which the emergence of digital cinema highlights in the process of its erasure. Chapters cover the spectrum from digital spectacles of the U.S. Civil Rights movement to the cinephiliac politics of Wong Kar-Wai, from the transnational cinephilia of Bernardo Bertolucci and Adrian Lyne to the cultural politics of race and media transition in Michel Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind. $25.00 / £17.50 paper 978-0-231-16217-3 $75.00 / £52.00 cloth 978-0-231-16216-6 2012 256 pages Wallflower Press

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Dave Harrison Gaming is now an important Media Studies issue, yet there has to-date been very little material available for teachers to use in the classroom. Dave Harrison, a Media teacher and former gaming journalist, has written the ideal introduction to the topic for educators. Covering the history of videogames from Pong to Angry Birds and offering in-depth coverage of game genres, audiences, marketing and promotion and including ideas for classroom work and discussion, Gaming aims to make the delivery of this topic accessible to all. $45.00 / £30.95 paper 978-1-906733-76-6 2014 100 pages / 20 illus. Auteur Publishing

Fashion Myths A Cultural Critique Roman Meinhold Translated by John Irons

In addition to products and services, multinational corporations sell myths, values, and immaterial goods. These “metagoods,” which include prestige, beauty, and strength, are major components of successful marketing and advertising. Fashion ads mine deeply rooted human values, ideals, and desires, channeled through social recognition, beautification, and rejuvenation. Although referencing meta-goods is obvious to some consumers, their connection to philosophical theories of human nature is less apparent. This volume explores that connection and more. $30.00 paper 978-3-8376-2437-3 2014 170 pages Transcript-Verlag

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