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Perpetrator Cinema

Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary Raya Morag

Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Raya Morag analyzes how post–Khmer Rouge Cambodian documentarians propose a direct confrontation between the first-generation survivor and the perpetrator of genocide.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18509-7 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18508-0 2020 312 pages 20 illus.

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The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino

Commitment to Style Russell J. A. Kilbourn

Paolo Sorrentino has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first-century European film. This book is a critical examination of Sorrentino’s work, focusing on his emergence as a preeminent transnational auteur.

$32.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18993-4 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-18992-7 2020 264 pages 30 illus.

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Herstories on Screen

Feminist Subversions of Frontier Myths Kathleen Cummins

Herstories on Screen is a transnational study of feature narrative films from Australia, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand/Aotearoa that deconstruct settler-colonial myths. Kathleen Cummins offers in-depth readings of ten works by a diverse range of women filmmakers, revealing how they skillfully deploy genre tropes.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-189514 $95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-189507 2020 336 pages 35 illus.

The Cinema of Louis Malle

Transatlantic Auteur Edited by Philippe Met Foreword by Volker Schlöndorff Afterword by Wes Anderson

Arguably a pioneer of the French New Wave with Ascenseur pour l’échafaud, 1957 Louis Malle went on to enjoy an acclaimed yet provocative and versatile transatlantic career. This collection of original essays proposes to reassess his richly eclectic and boldly subversive oeuvre and redress the surprising critical neglect it has suffered over the years.

$32.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18871-5 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-18870-8 2018 272 pages 16 illus.

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