FILM, THEATRE & PERFORMANCE Spring 2020
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A Million Pictures
Clocking Out
Magic Lantern Slides in the History of Learning Edited by Sarah Dellmann & Frank Kessler
The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema Karen Pinkus March 2020 152pp 26 b&w photos 9781517908553 £18.99/$23.00 PB 9781517908546 £79.00/$92.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
KINtop Studies in Early Cinema August 2020 256pp 9780861967353 £25.99/$32.00 PB JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING
Challenges readers to think about labor, cinema, and machines as they are intertwined in complex ways in Italian cinema of the early ’60s. This book asks what kinds of fractures we might exploit for living otherwise, for resisting traditional narratives, and for anticapitalism. Excludes Japan & ANZ
This volume brings together scholarly research on the educational uses of the optical lantern in different disciplines by international specialists, representing the state of the art of magic lantern research today.
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Discussing Disney
Edited by Amy M. Davis
Military Veterans, Trauma, and Research-Based Theatre With Marv Westwood Edited by George Belliveau & Graham W. Lea
November 2019 240pp 9780861967193 £25.99/$32.00 PB JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING
Discussing Disney, which grew out of a conference of the same name, is a collection of 12 papers on topics which, though diverse in scope, all relate back to one another through their connection to Disney. This collection seeks to continue the evolution of Disney Studies as an academic field.
Studies in Canadian Military History May 2020 264pp 21 b&w photos 9780774862639 £22.99/$37.95 PB 9780774862622 £60.00/$89.95 HB UBC PRESS
This important book explores an arts-based therapeutic approach to mental health care. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Expanded Cinema
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts
Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Gene Youngblood Introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller
Edited by Levi S. Gibbs
Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology March 2020 192pp 9780253045836 £24.99/$30.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Meaning Systems March 2020 464pp 60 color illus. and 284 b/w illus.. 9780823287413 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9780823287420 £91.00/$110.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts examines the key role of the individual in the Fiftieth anniversary reissue of the founding media development of traditional Chinese performing studies book that helped establish media art as a arts such as music and dance. cultural category.
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Furious Feminisms
Household Horror
Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill & Barbara Gurr
Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects Marc Olivier
The Year’s Work March 2020 344pp 9780253046567 £33.00/$38.00 PB 9780253046550 £82.00/$95.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Forerunners: Ideas First January 2020 82pp 9781517909192 £8.00 /$10.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
In Household Horror: Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects Marc Olivier Fans & foes alike point to Mad Max’s feminist highlights the wonder, fear, and terrifying credentials, Furious Feminisms asks: is there really anything feminist happening on the screen? dimension of objects in horror cinema. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Listening
Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925
Interviews, 1970–1989 Jonathan Cott
Richard Abel
April 2020 360pp 9781517909017 £24.99/$29.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
March 2020 304pp 9780253046468 £33.00/$38.00 PB 9780253046451 £69.00/$80.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Collected here are twenty-two of Jonathan Cott’s most illuminating interviews that encourage readers to listen to film directors and musicians, actors and writers, scientists and visionaries. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Motor City Movies, 1916–1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population and complex demographics. Richard Abel investigates the role of local Detroit organizations in producing, distributing, exhibiting, and publicizing films in an effort to make moviegoing part of everyday life.
Noir Affect
Our Family Album
Edited by Christopher Breu & Elizabeth A. Hatmaker Afterword by Paula Rabinowitz
Essays-Script- AnnotationsImages Charles Musser
October 2019 pp 9780861967414 £43.00/$50.00 HB JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING
June 2020 304pp 9780823287666 £27.99/$35.00 PB 9780823287802 £103.00/$125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
This literary counterpart to Charles Musser and Maria Threese Serana’s documentary Our Family Featuring an afterword by celebrated noir scholar, Album includes brief essays by those involved in its production as well as an annotated script with Paula Rabinowitz, and essays by an array of selected images from the film. leading scholars, Noir Affect proposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect.
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Paris in the Dark
Perpetual Motion
Going to the Movies in the City of Light, 1930–1950 Eric Smoodin
Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common Harmony Bench
March 2020 224pp 30 illus. 9781478006923 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478006114 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Electronic Mediations March 2020 288pp 44 b&w photos 9781517900533 £21.99/$27.00 PB 9781517900526 £93.00/$108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Drawing on a wealth of journalistic sources, Eric Smoodin takes readers on a journey through the streets, cinemas, and theaters of Paris to sketch a comprehensive picture of French film culture during the 1930s and 1940s.
In Perpetual Motion, Harmony Bench argues that dance is a vital part of civil society and a means for building participation and community. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Postcinematic Vision
Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman
The Coevolution of MovingImage Media and the Spectator Roger F. Cook
Black History and Poetics in Performance Gale P. Jackson
Posthumanities March 2020 240pp 16 b&w photos 9781517907679 £21.99/$27.00 PB 9781517907662 £93.00/$108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
April 2020 240pp 1 photo, 4 illus. 9781496217684 £39.00/$45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience. Excludes Japan & ANZ
This title “re-members” and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience in song, dance, and poetics in performance.
Reattachment Theory
Return to the Land of the Head Hunters
Queer Cinema of Remarriage Lee Wallace
Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka’wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema Edited by Brad Evans & Aaron Glass Foreword by Bill Holm
Camera Obscura April 2020 312pp 61 illus. 9781478008101 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478006817 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through innovative readings of gay and lesbian films, Lee Wallace offers a provocative argument that queer experiments in domesticity have profoundly reshaped heterosexual marriage to such an extent that now all marriage is gay marriage.
Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center Series February 2020 392pp 113 illus., 16 in color 9780295746951 £27.99/$35.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Reasses In the Land of the Head Hunters.
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Sex, Politics, and Comedy
Silent Serial Sensations
The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema Barbara Tepa Lupack
The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch—From Berlin to Hollywood Rick McCormick
April 2020 400pp 59 b&w halftones, 1 map 9781501748189 £18.99/$22.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
German Jewish Cultures June 2020 374pp 9780253048332 £82.00/$95.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first book-length study of pioneering and prolific filmmakers Ted and Leo Wharton, Silent Serial Sensations offers a fascinating account of the dynamic early film industry. Excludes ANZ
Rick McCormick argues for a more transnational view of Ernst Lubitsch’s career and films with respect to nationality, ethnicity, migration, class, sexuality, and gender.
Spanish Cinema against Itself
The Process Genre
Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky
Cosmopolitanism, Experimentation, Militancy Steven Marsh
March 2020 344pp 224 illus., incl. 60 in color 9781478006442 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781478005407 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
New Directions in National Cinemas March 2020 304pp 9780253046314 £25.99/$32.00 PB 9780253046307 £69.00/$80.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky theorizes the process genre—filmic genre characterized by its representation of chronologically ordered steps in which some form of labor results in a finished product.
Maps the evolution of Spanish surrealist and politically committed cinematic traditions from their origins in the 1930s through to the contemporary period.
Unruly Cinema
Urban Horror
History, Politics, and Bollywood Rini Battacharya Mehta
Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility Erin Y. Huang
June 2020 232pp 9780252084997 £19.99/$25.00 PB 9780252043123 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Sinotheory February 2020 296pp 39 illus. 9781478008095 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478006794 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Looks at the complex series of events that allowed the entire Indian film industry to defy attempts to control, reform, and refine it in the twentieth century and beyond. Traces Indian cinema’s complicated history from the 1930s triumph over Hollywood imports to the global neoliberal aesthetic that encouraged the emergence of Bollywood.
Drawing on Marxist phenomenology, geography, and aesthetics and film from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan made between the 1990s and the present, Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal postsocialist China.
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Voicing the Cinema
Werner Herzog Joshua Lund
Film Music and the Integrated Soundtrack Edited by James Buhler & Hannah Lewis
Contemporary Film Directors July 2020 264pp 9780252085048 £17.99/$22.00 PB 9780252043178 £91.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
March 2020 352pp 9780252084867 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780252043000 £103.00/$125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Joshua Lund offers the first systematic interpretation of Werner Herzog's Americas-themed works, illuminating the director's career as a political filmmaker—a label Herzog himself rejects.
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Essays from many of film music’s most influential scholars explore issues around vococentrism, the voice in cinema, and music’s role in the integrated soundtrack.
Fidel between the Lines
Difference and Orientation
Paranoia and Ambivalence in Late Socialist Cuban Cinema Laura-Zoë Humphreys
An Alexander Kluge Reader Alexander Kluge Edited by Richard Langston
October 2019 304pp 22 illus. 9781478006244 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478005476 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
signale|TRANSFER: German Theory in Translation September 2019 486pp 22 b&w halftones 9781501739217 £22.99/$26.95 PB 9781501739200 £82.00/$95.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, textual analysis, and archival research, Laura-Zoë Humphreys traces the changing dynamics of criticism and censorship in late-socialist Cuba through a focus on cinema.
Difference and Orientation assembles thirty of Alexander Kluge’s essays, speeches, glosseries, and interviews. Excludes ANZ
Film as Religion, 2nd Edition
Happiness by Design
Modernism and Media in the Eames Era Justus Nieland
Myths, Morals, and Rituals John C. Lyden
September 2019 400pp 9781517902056 £34.00/$39.95 PB 9781517902049 £138.00/$160.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
November 2019 320pp 9781479811991 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781479802074 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Happiness by Design offers a fresh cultural history of midcentury modernism through the film and multimedia experiments of Charles and Ray Eames and their peers, at a moment when designers enjoyed a new cultural prestige. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Thoroughly updating his examples, Lyden examines a range of film genres and individual films, from The Godfather to The Hunger Games to Frozen, to show how film can function religiously. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham
Lucrecia Martel Gerd Gemünden
Contemporary Film Directors October 2019 200pp 9780252084669 £17.99/$22.00 PB 9780252042836 £82.00/$99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Dances in Literature and Cinema Hannah Durkin
August 2019 280pp 9780252084454 £21.99/$27.95 PB 9780252042621 £82.00/$99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Films like Zama and The Headless Woman have made Lucrecia Martel a fixture on festival marquees and critic's best lists. Durkin investigates Baker and Dunham’s films and Gerd Gemünden offers a career-spanning analysis writings to shed new light on their legacies as of a filmmaker dedicated to revealing the transatlantic artists and civil rights figures. ephemeral, fortuitous, and endless variety of Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ human experience. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Scenarios III
Todd Solondz
Julian Murphet
Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; Cobra Verde Werner Herzog, Translated by Krishna Winston
Contemporary Film Directors August 2019 200pp 9780252084591 £17.99/$22.00 PB 9780252042768 £82.00/$99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Films like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness established Todd Solondz as independent cinema’s premier satirist. Julian Murphet appraises the career of the controversial, if increasingly ignored, indie film auteur. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
October 2019 216pp 9781517907815 £18.99/$22.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
For the first time in English, and in his signature prose poetry, the film scripts of four of Werner Herzog’s early works. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Unsettled Scores
Where Histories Reside
Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler Sally Bick
India as Filmed Space Priya Jaikumar
September 2019 424pp 80 illus. 9781478004752 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9781478004127 £95.00/$109.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Music in American Life December 2019 256pp 9780252084645 £21.99/$28.00 PB 9780252042812 £82.00/$99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Priya Jaikumar examines seven decades of films shot on location in India to show how attending to filmed space reveals alternative timelines and histories of cinema as well as the myriad ways cinema constructs India as a place.
Sally Bick's dual study of composers Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler pairs interpretations of their writings on film composing with a close examination of their first Hollywood projects. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
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