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 Policing Cinema: Movies & Censorship
in Early-Twentieth-Century America
Lee Grieveson
White slave films, dramas documenting sex scandals, filmed prize
fights featuring the controversial African-American boxer Jack Johnson,
D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation -- all became objects
of public concern after 1906, when the proliferation of nickelodeons
brought moving pictures to a mass public. Lee Grieveson draws on
extensive original research to examine the controversies over these
films. Softcover, 348 pp. $37.95.
 The Silent
Cinema Reader
Lee Grieveson & Peter Kramer
The Silent Cinema Reader offers a wide-ranging and accessible guide to the
development of cinema from its emergence in the 1890s to the introduction of
sound in the late 1920s. Topics discussed include: the pioneering work of Thomas
Edison, the emergence of film editing, the rise of nickelodeons, and the importance
of films stars and major directors. Softcover, 423 pp. $49.95.
 Rethinking
Third Cinema
Anthony R. Guneratne and Wimal Dissanayake
This innovative and timely anthology addresses established
notions about Third Cinema theory and its impact on the cinematic
practices of developing and postcolonial nations. The filmmakers
discussed herein include: Ousmane Sembene, Satyajit Ray, Fernando
Solanas, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, and Nelson Pereira dos Santos. Softcover,
240 pp. $39.95.
Writing History in Film
William Guynn
Writing History in Film sets out the narratological, semiological,
rhetorical, and philosophical bases for understanding how film can function as
a form of historical interpretation and representation. With case studies and
an interdisciplinary approach, William Guynn examines the key issues facing film
students and scholars, historians and anyone interested in how we see our historical
past. Softcover, 225 pp. $30.95.
 Holocaust
and the Moving Image
Representations in Film and Television since 1933
Toby Haggith & Joanna Newman
Based on a major symposium held at the Imperial War Museum in 2001, this book
is a unique blend of voices and perspectives -- archivists, curators, filmmakers,
scholars, and Holocaust survivors. Each section of the book is dedicated to a
different category of moving image: film as witness; propaganda; documentary
in film and television; feature films; the legacy of the Holocaust and other
genocides. These considerations are set within the wider context of the history
of the Holocaust and how they may have contributed to awareness and understanding
of the cataclysm since the war. Accessible, engaging and stimulating, this book
is an excellent introduction to the subject. Softcover, 317 pp. $35.00.
 The End of
Celluloid: Film Futures in the Digital Age
Matt Hanson
Emerging from the basic language of film and television,
new forms of audio-visual communication include film, animation,
FMV, machinima, digital tv, pop promos,
websites, PVP, and PDA devices. Unlike other books that look at these singular
areas, The End of Celluloid joins the dots between these disciplines
and suggests possible directions for its evolutionary paths. Softcover, 176
pp. $50.00.
 Pictures At a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
Mark Harris
Pictures at a Revolution tracks five movies -- the milestones Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate, the popular hits Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night, and the big-budget disaster Doctor Dolittle -- on their five-year journey to Oscar night in the spring of 1968. It follows their fortunes through the last days of the studio system and the first sparks of a cultural upheaval that would launch maverick new stars and directors, topple more than one industry titan from his pedestal, and redefine what American movies could be. Hardcover, 490 pp. $27.95.
 Adaptations:
From Short Story to Big Screen
Stephanie Harrison
Memento, All About Eve, Rear Window, Rashomon,
and 2001: A Space Odyssey are all well-known and much-loved
movies, but what is perhaps a lesser-known fact is that all of them began their
lives as short stories. This anthology brings together 35 pieces that have been
the basis for films, many from giants of American literature and many that have
not been in print for decades. Softcover, 616 pp. $22.95.
 Cinema
Studies: The Key Concepts
Third Edition
Susan Hayward
Providing accessible and authoritative coverage of a comprehensive range of genres,
movements, theories and production terms, Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts is
a must-have guide to a fascinating area of study and arguably the greatest art
form of modern times. Now fully revised and updated for its third edition. Softcover,
586 pp. $30.95.
 The View From Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers
Edited by Matthew Hays
The history of gay and lesbian cinema is a storied one, and one that has become much larger in the post-Brokeback Mountain era. But the history of gay and lesbian filmmakers is a story all its own. In The View From Here, some of the world's leading queer film directors and screenwriters speak passionately and eloquently about the medium, and the challenges they face overcoming the demands of the Hollywood studio system and "the market" to create films that are entertaining, engaging, and truthful. Softcover, 383 pp. $26.95.
 Afterimage: Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust
Joshua Hirsch
While much has been written about the question of film and the Holocaust, Joshua
Hirsch's thoughtful and lucid analysis breaks new ground. Afterimage focuses
on a selection of exemplary documentary and fictional films that have contributed
to a post-traumatic historical consciousness in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
This timely book will be of much value to anyone interested in the relationship
between movies and history. Softcover, 213 pp. $32.95.
 Purity
and Provocation: Dogma 95
Mette Hjort & Scott MacKenzie
The audacious, attention-grabbing, tongue-in-cheek filmmaker's manifesto that
was Dogma 95 has had a massive international impact. Coinciding with the arrival
of affordable digital hardware, the aesthetic creed proposed by Thomas Vinterberg
and Lars von Trier has resonated with young and indie filmmakers in all continents
and been credited with a revival of radical back-to-basics guerilla-style filmmaking.
This new book brings together leading scholars from a number of disciplines,
with an aim towards providing an in-depth and properly international discussion
of the implications of von Trier's and Vinterberg's initiative on contemporary
cinema and arts.Softcover, 237 pp. $34.95.
 The Magic Hour: Film at Fin de Siecle
J. Hoberman
This fascinating book of critical commentaries on the movies, comes
courtesy of one of the most astute voices in contemporary film criticism,
J. Hoberman. With typical
wit and intellect, Hoberman writes with astonishing range about everything
from the low brow comic stylings of There's Something About Mary, to
the austere artistry of In the Mood for Love. Softcover, 272 pp. $32.95.
 The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and theMythology
of the Sixties
J. Hoberman
With the 1960s being the most tumultuous decade in U.S. history, films
of this era were necessarily reflecting the socio-political climate.
As a result, movies
became political events, and political events became a kind of ongoing
movie spectacular. In The Dream Life, J. Hoberman uses wildly entertaining
reinterpretations of key Hollywood movies to reconstruct the hidden
political history
of '60s cinema. Softcover, $25.95.
 Film,
Television And The Left: 1950-1970
Bert Hogenkamp
This book is a comprehensive survey of the left's approach to films and television
from the period after the second world war until the beginnings of the growth
of independent cinema in the late 1960s. Softcover, $37.95.
 Contemporary
American Independent Film
Chris Holmund & Justin Wyatt
Examining the uneasy relationship between independent filmmakers
and the major studios, this anthology traces the changing ideas and definitions
of independent
cinema, and the diversity of independent film practices. Softcover, 299 pp. $37.95.
 Screening
the Gothic
Lisa Hopkins
Screening the Gothic offers a radical new way of understanding
the relationship between film and the Gothic as it surveys a wide range of films,
many of which have received scant critical attention. Lisa Hopkins takes the
original approach of identifying the Gothic not by stylistic tropes, but rather
by its central characteristics. Thus, she surprises readers by revealing Gothic
elements in films such as Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield
Park, as well as exploring more obviously Gothic films like The
Mummy and The Fellowship of the Ring. Softcover, 170
pp. $26.95.
 Dogville
vs. Hollywood
Jake Horsley
Interpreting Lars von Trier's Dogville as a comment on the Hollywood
film industry and the moviegoing process, Jake Horsley examines the age-old conflict
between 'artistic' and 'commercial' filmmaking. He proposes that the term 'independent',
when applied to filmmaking, refers to sensibility and vision rather than backing
or funds. Included are detailed analyses of work from early independent visionaries
such as Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, and Roman Polanski, through 80s
indie cinema and 90s slacker films to present day pioneers such as Keith Gordon,
Charlie Kaufman and Richard Linklater. Softcover, 379 pp. $25.95.
 Once
Upon a Time in the Italian West
Howard Hughes
Authoritative and entertaining, Once Upon a Time in the Italian West offers
detailed critical and historical analyses of 20 key films. Taken together,
these essays identify the salient trends, tropes, and filmmakers of this popular
genre, and provide a useful guide to its signature films. Hardcover, 266 pp.
$44.95.
 The Bad Mirror
Jack Hunter
These 18 chapters, culled from each of the 18 volumes in the
Creation Cinema library, represent the best in scholarship on the
subject of cult, exploitation, and underground cinema. Subjects
of focus run the gamut, from "meat movies" and beat cinema,
to freak films and hard-core pornography. Softcover, 282 pp. $20.99.
 Now
Playing at the Valencia
Stephen Hunter
From Pulitzer Prize-Winning movie critic Stephen Hunter comes a brilliant, freewheeling,
and witty look at the movies. In Now Playing at the Valencia,
he has compiled his favourite movie reviews written between 1997 and 2003, bringing
to the discussion the passionate feelings for cinema he discovered in the 1950s,
a time when genres were forming, mesmerizing stars played unforgettable characters,
and enduring classics were made. Softcover, 345 pp. $22.00.
 A
Theory of Adaptation
Linda Hutcheon
If you think that adaptation can be understood by using novels and films alone,
you're wrong. Today there are cover songs rising up the pop charts, video game
versions of fairy tales, and even roller coasters based on successful movie franchises.
Adaptation has always been a central mode of storytelling and deserves to be
studied in all its breadth and range as both a process of creation and reception,
and as a product unto itself. Persuasive and illuminating, A Theory of
Adaptation is a bold rethinking of how adaptation works across all media
and genres that may put an end to the age-old question of whether the book was
better than the movie, or the opera, or the theme park. Softcover, 232 pp. $27.95.
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