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 Blacklisted: The Film
Lover's Guide to the Hollywood Blacklist
Paul Buhle & Dave Wagner
Blacklisted is the definitive guide to the films, directors, stars, writers,
designers, producers and anyone else who was blacklisted by the House Un-American
Activities Committee during the notorious Hollywood blacklist era. With over
2000 entries, including Roman Holiday, Bridge on the River Kwai,
and High Noon, this is the ultimate film lover's guide to Hollywood's
darkest era. Softcover, 255 pp. $36.95.
 From
the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture
Paul Buhle
While Jews have made an undeniable impact on the evolution
of American popular culture, their contributions remain scarcely
documented. From the Lower East
Side
to Hollywood draws upon extensive oral histories with several generations
of Jewish artists, little-utilized Yiddish scholarship, and the author's own
connections with contemporary comic-strip artists to make it the first comprehensive
investigation of the formative Jewish influence upon the rise and development
of American popular
culture. Hardcover, 304 pp. $37.00.
 The
Remembered Film
Victor Burgin
The Remembered Film is unique in addressing a previously overlooked aspect
of cinema: the isolated fragments of films, iconic images or scenes that fleetingly
cross our perceptions and thoughts in the course of daily life. Victor Burgin
offers a radical new way of thinking about film outside traditional film studies
and in relation to our everyday lives, and his book will appeal to a wide audience
interested
in film and media. Softcover, 128 pp. $29.95.
 Shakespeare,
The Movie, II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video, and DVD
Richard Burt & Lynda E. Boose
Following from the phenomenally successful Shakespeare,
The Movie, this volume brings together an invaluable new collection
of 16 essays on cinematic Shakespeares in the 1990s and beyond.
This a must-read for any student of Shakespeare, film, media, or
cultural studies. Softcover, 340 pp. $38.95.
 "Injuns!" Native
Americans in the Movies
Edward Buscombe
In "Injuns!", the distinguished film scholar Edward
Buscombe examines the history and reception of simplistic stereotypes, and explores
the depiction of Native Americans in films that offer very different portrayals
from those manufactured according to the traditional Hollywood perspective. In
this book, Buscombe offers nothing less than a wholly original and readable account
of the images of Native Americans through history and around the globe, revealing
new and complex issues in our understanding of how oppressed peoples have been
respresented in mass culture. Softcover, 272 pp. $20.95.
 Back
in the Saddle Again
New Essays on the Western
Edward Buscombe & Roberta F. Pearson
This collection of new essays looks at the many areas of the Western previously
ignored: the early silent films, the singing cowboys of the 1930s, the television
westerns of the 1950s. It takes a fresh look at the perennially urgent topic
of Native Americans, and looks east and south to consider the European Western
and the significance of Mexico. Other essays consider the Western in magazine
advertising, in fashion and in television documentaries. Softcover, 218 pp. $31.95.
 Cinema Today
Edward Buscombe
This stunning book is a survey of world cinema and the films that have dominated
our screens over the last thirty years. Fully illustrated with over 700 images
including film stills, posters and behind-the-scenes shots, this book also features
in-depth case studies on a wide range of films. Cinema Today is both a
rich history as well as an illuminating look at new developments in cinema around
the globe. Hardcover, 512 pp. $99.95.
 The Cinematic
David Campany
Manifestations of the cinematic in photography and of the photographic in cinema have been a springboard for the work of some of the most influential contemporary artists, including James Coleman, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Stan Douglas, Nan Goldin, Douglas Gordon, Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall, among many others. The Cinematic is one of a series documenting major themes and ideas in contemporary art. Softcover, 221 pp. $29.95.
 Film
and Cinema Spectatorship
Jan Campbell
In this book, Jan Campbell offers a comprehensive account of the different theoretical
perspectives on film and cinema spectatorship, situating these in their cultural
and historical contexts. Among the perspectives covered are those of feminism,
modernism and cultural studies, with chapters dedicated to important topics such
as early film, stars, and film aesthetics. Softcover, 274 pp. $32.95.
 Philosophy
of Film and Motion Pictures
An Anthology
Noel Carroll & Jinhee Choi
This authoritative anthology presents key selections from the best contemporary
work in philosophy of film and motion pictures. Designed for classroom use, the
essays that comprise this volume have been specially chosen for their clarity,
precision, philosophical depth, and consonance with current cognitive science
and psychology. Whether addressing assumptions about the objectivity of documentary
film, fear of movie monsters, or moral questions surrounding the viewing of pornography,
this text is replete with examples and discussion of moving pictures throughout.
Softcover, 430 pp. $55.95.
 Engaging
the Moving Image
Noel Carroll
Noel Carroll, one of the most brilliant theorists in contemporary film scholarship,
has gathered in this book eighteen of his most recent essays on cinema and television.
Readers interested in film, cognitivism and the emotions, the history of film
theory, the relation of film and television, and film criticism will find much
of interest in this stunning treatise on the philosophy of film. Hardcover, 420
pp. $67.95.
 Cavell
On Film
William Rothman
This extensive collection offers a substantially complete retrospective of Stanley
Cavell's previously uncollected writings on film. Cavell is the only major philosopher
in the Anglo-American tradition who has made film a central concern of his work,
and his work offers inspiration and new directions to the field of film studies.
All periods of Cavell's career are represented, from the 1970s to the present,
and the book includes many previously unpublished essays written since the early
1990s. In his introduction, William Rothman provides a useful and eloquent overview
of Cavell's work on film and his aims as a philosopher more generally. Softcover,
399 pp. $36.95.
 Cinemas
of the World
James Chapman
In Cinemas of the World, James Chapman offers a new approach
to the study of international films: a social history that considers
the nature of cinema going in different cultures. His takes a comprehensive
approach -- from Hollywood to Bollywood, from the efforts of early
pioneers to the age of the blockbuster, from the pleasures of popular
genres to the political radicalism of the Third World -- in order
to elucidate the complex relationships between films and the societies
in which they have been produced and consumed. Softcover, 480 pp.
$29.95.
 Feminist
Film Theorists
Shohini Chaudhuri
This book focuses on the groundbreaking work of Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman,
Teresa de Lauretis, and Barbara Creed. Each of these thinkers has opened up a
new and distinctive approach to the study of film and this book provides the
most detailed account so far of their ideas. Shohini Chaudhuri illuminates their
work by explaining the concepts of the male gaze, the female gaze, technologies
of gender, queering desire, the monstrous-feminine, and masculinity in crisis.
Softcover, 148 pp. $29.95.
 War
Films
James Clarke
Films about war have been a part of cinema history since the beginning of the
moving picture, and in the post-World War Two era have gone on the assume a
prominent place in our collective imagination. With profiles of All
Quiet on the Western Front, The Dam Busters, The
Great Escape, Platoon, Casualties of War,
and Born on the Fourth of July, just to name a few, War
Films explores the heart-wrenching storylines, pure spectacle and
the dramatisation of history in one of the world's most enduring genres. Softcover,
295 pp. $34.95.
 Incongruous
Entertainment
Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical
Steven Cohan
With their lavish costumes and sets, ebullient song and dance numbers, and iconic
movie stars, the musicals that MGM produced in the 1940s seem today to epitomize
camp. Yet they were originally made to appeal to broad, mainstream audiences.
In this lively, nuanced, and provocative reassessment of the MGM musical, Steven
Cohan argues that this seeming incongruity -- between camp value and popular
appreciation of these musicals -- is not as contradictory as it seems. He demonstrates
that the films' extravagance and queerness were deliberate elements and keys
to their popular success. Softcover, 368 pp. $33.95.
 The Cinema Book
Third Edition
Edited by Pam Cook
The Cinema Book is widely recognised as the ultimate guide to cinema. Authoritative and comprehensive, this Third Edition has been extensively revised, updated and expanded in response to developments in cinema and cinema studies. It includes many exciting new sections, from Hong Kong cinema to New Hollywood, and from Japanese anime to contemporary British directors as well as in-depth case studies written by leading international film scholars and historians. Softcover, 610 pp. $55.95.
 Screening
the Past
Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema
Pam Cook
In Screening the Past, Pam Cook explores film culture's obsession
with the past through searching and provocative analyses of a wide range of films.
She engages with current debates about the role of cinema in mediating history
through memory and nostalgia through a discussion of In the Mood for
Love and Far From Heaven, suggesting that many films
use strategies of memory to challenge established ideas of history, and the traditional
role of historians. Softcover, 246 pp. $42.95.
 The
American Film Institute Desk Reference
Melinda Corey and George Ochoa
The American Film Institute Desk Reference is the most complete
one-volume source of everything you need to know about movies and
the people behind them. Comprehensive, informative, and visually
appealing, it is the perfect companion for anyone interested in
movies. Hardcover, 608 pp., $60.00.
 Revolution!
The Explosion of World Cinema in the Sixties
Peter Cowie
The period 1958-69 saw a brilliant explosion of talent in the world of film-maiking.
From France and Italy to India, Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia, young film-makers
sprang from nowhere to challange the dreary conformity of the fifties and flout
the abiding taboos, both sexual and political, of their age. Revolution! recaptures
afresh the cultural spirit of the sixties through a wide range of new interviews
with those maverick film-making talents of that time. Softcover, 286 pp. $21.00.
 Hollywood
Fantasies of Miscegenation
Susan Courtney
This scholarly text examines white fantasies of interracial desire
in the history of popular American film. From the first interracial
screen kiss of 1903, through the Production Code's nearly thirty-year
ban on depictions of "miscegenation," to the contemplation
of mixed marriage in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, this book
demonstrates a long, popular, yet underexamined record of cultural
fantasy at the movies. Softcover, 373 pp. $40.95.
 Projections: 15+ The European Film Academy
Peter Cowie & Pascal Edelmann
This volume features articles and interviews with leading directors, writers, producers, actors, cinematographers, critics, directors of festivals and cinema institutions - as well as audience members from across the wide swathe of Europe - in which they discuss the question: What is a European film? Softcover, 356 pp. $30.00.
 The Cinema Effect
Sean Cubbitt
This highly original alternative history of cinema examines the uncanny effect
produced by images and sounds that don't quite allign with reality. By looking both
at acknowledged masterworks and noncanonical films, Sean Cubitt offers an alluring
perspective on the cinema's intoxicating illusion of movement, time and space. Hardcover,
456 pp. $59.95.
 Big
Screen Rome
Monica Silveira Cyrino
Big Screen Rome is the first systematic survey of the most important films from
the past half-century that reconstruct the image of Roman antiquity. The book
provides in-depth discussions of a broad selection of famous films, including: Quo
Vadis, Ben-Hur, Spartacus, A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Monty Python's
Life of Brian, and Gladiator. Softcover, 274 pp. $39.95.
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Spectatorship: The Power of Looking On
Americanizing
the Movies and "Movie Mad" Audiences, 1910-1914
Agee:
Film Writing and Selected Journalism 
Silent
Film Sound
Understanding
Realism
Film
as Art
Cinema
by the Bay
The Red
and the Blacklist 
Silent
Stars
Forms
of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity
Down and
Dirty Pictures
Movies
and the Meaning of Life: Philosophers Take on Hollywood 
Novels into Film
Hollywood
Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos
Poetics of Cinema
The
Way Hollywood Tells It
Figures
Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging 
Reel
Food: Essays on Food and Film
Crowds,
Power, and Transformation in Cinema
From
Walt to Woodstock: How Disney Created the Counterculture
Boys and Toys: Ultimate
Action-Adventure Films
Home
in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema
