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Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema
Tejaswini Ganti
In Bollywood, anthropologist and film scholar Tejaswini
Ganti provides a guide to the cultural, social and political significance
of Hindi cinema, outlining the history and structure of the Bombay
film industry, and the development of popular Hindi filmmaking since
the 1930s. Softcover, 254 pp. $23.95.
Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema since 1945
Ernest Mathijs & Xavier Mendik
Surreal vampire experimentations, German erotic cinema, giallos,
nunsploitation movies, and the necro-porn-horrors of Jorg Buttgereit:
these are but a few of the alternative cinemas of post-war Europe.
This eclectic volume investigates these previously under-explored
national traditions of film culture, with essays and festival reports
uncovering the social and cultural trends and tensions within a wide
range of European exploitation movies. Softcover, 269 pp. $31.95.
The Cinema of Japan and Korea
Justin Bowyer
This exciting volume provides a timely introduction to the history and continuing
vibrancy of Japanese and Korean film. With a wide range that spans from silent
cinema to the present day, and from films that have achieved classic status
to underground masterpieces, this collection provides an overview of the breadth
of the Japanese and Korean cinematic landscapes. Softcover, 258 pp. $34.50.
British Film
Jim Leach
This book explores British cinema in relation to its social,
political, and cultural contexts. Each chapter deals with a specific
topic -- including realism, expressionism, popular cinema, film and
theatre, sexuality and gender, comedy, class and ideology, heritage
film, and diasporic cinema -- and features close readings of key
films from different historical periods. Softcover, 289 pp. $37.95.
The French Cinema Book
Michael Temple & Michael Witt
The French Cinema Book is an accessible and innovative survey of key
topics in French cinema from the 1890s to the twenty-first century. By combining
historical context and backround information with detailed discussion of case-studies,
analysis of films, recommendations for further reading and online resources,
this multi-authored volume propses new insights for the study and appreciation
of French Cinema. Softcover, 294 pp. $32.95.
Chinese National Cinema
Yingjin Zhang
This introduction to Chinese national cinema, by a leading authority, covers
three 'Chinas': mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Historical and comparative
analyses bring out the parallel developments in the three Chinas, while critical
analysis explores thematic and stylistic changes over time. This refreshing
perspective on national identity will of interest to all students of film,
particularly those with a predilection for Chinese cinema. Softcover, 328 pp.
$42.95.
Chanteuse in the City
Kelley Conway
An icon of working-class feminity and the underworld, the realist
singer signaled the emergence of new cultural roles for women as
well as shifts in the nature of popular entertainment. Chanteuse
in the City provides a genealogy of realist performance through
analysis of the music hall careers and film roles of Mistinguett,
Josephine Baker, Frehel, and Damia. Above all, this volume offers
a fresh interpretation of 1930s French cinema, emphasizing its love
affair with popular song and its close connections to the music hall
and the cafe-concert. Softcover, 246 pp. $37.95.
Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich
Robert R. Shandley
Rubble Films is a close look at German cinema in the immediate postwar
era, and a careful examination of its relationship to Allied occupation. Shandley
reveals how German films borrowed -- both literally and figuratively -- from
its Nazi past, and how the occupied powers (specifically the U.S.) used its
position as victor to open Europe to Hollywood movie products and aesthetics.
Softcover, 223 pp. $32.95.
British Film Editors
Roy Perkins & Martin Stollery
The contributions of film editors have long been overlooked or simply not understood.
In British Film Editors, the craftmen and craftswomen convey, in their
own words, the nature of their elusive art. By focusing exclusively on film
editing, this book offers an alternative history of cinema, both highly readable
and thoroughly fascinating. Softcover, 248 pp. $41.95.
Irish National Cinema
Ruth Barton
From the international success of Jordan and Sheridan, to the
smaller productions of the new generation of Irish filmmakers, the
recent flowering of Irish cinema can be seen as a symbol of the nation's
emergence into the mainstream global economy. In Barton's discussion
of contemporary Irish filmmaking, she reflects on questions of nationalism,
gender, and the representation of the Troubles and of Irish history,
as well as cinema's response to the legacy of the 'Celtic Tiger'.
Softcover, 214 pp. $35.95.
The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema
Kyung Hyun Kim
In one of the first English-language studies of Korean cinema
to date, Kyung Hyun Kim shows how the New Korean Cinema of the past
quarter century has used the trope of masculinity to mirror the profound
sociopolitical changes underway in the country. Offering in-depth
examinations of more than twenty-five of the most representative
films produced in Korea since 1980, The Remasculinization of Korean
Cinema is a groundbreaking study which examines the rich complexity
of the traditional and the modern, as well as the traumatic and the
post-traumatic in Korean cinema. Softcover, 331 pp. $35.95.
Hungarian
Cinema: From Coffee House to Multiplex
John Cunningham
Hungarian cinema has been forced to tread a precarious and difficult path; through
the failed 1919 Revolution to the defeat of the 1956 Uprising and its aftermath,
Hungarian filmmakers and their audiences have had to contend with a multiplicity
of problems. This is the first book to discuss all major aspects of the history
of Hungarian cinema and its place in the development of Hungarian society. Hungarian
Cinema also focuses on film-makers as diverse as Zoltan Fabri and Bela Tarr
and includes coverage of under-explored areas of Hungarian cinema, including
avant-garde film-making and animation, football films, and representations of
Gypsy and Jewish minorities. Softcover, 258 pp. $36.00.
Silver Screen Samurai
The Best of Japan's Samurai Movie Posters
Hiroshi Yokoi
For over half a century, samurai movies haved wowed audiences
around the world with their gory sword fights and tear-jerking
tales of honour and sacrifice. This first-ever collection of original
samurai movie art pays glorious tribute to a cinematic genre that
is truly Japanese. Silver Screen Samurai is a must-have
for samurai fans, movie-buffs and lovers of poster art. Softcover,
111 pp. $29.95.
Story and Character: Interviews with British Screenwriters
Alastair Owen
Praised by dramatist David Hare as "the most purely likeable book about
cinema that I have ever read," Story and Character is the first-ever
anthology of interviews with British screenwriters. Lively and funny, challenging
and revealing, this series of exclusive interviews with the unsung heroes of
contemporary British cinema provides a unique behind-the-scenes look at the
movie business. Softcover, 310 pp. $31.95.
The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture In The Absence of Communism
J. Hoberman
"These essays, at once funny and heartbreaking, survey the work of Soviet
and Eastern European artists, writers and filmmakers. Hoberman is an expert gifted
with high intellectual spirits, but he doesn't take cheap shots: he never lets
us forget the pressures and dangers that affected even the most devoted Communists
under Communism." - The New Yorker. Softcover, 315 pp. $31.95.
New German Cinema: Images of a Generation
Julia Knight
This book explores the context from which the films of Germany emerged during
the late 1960s throughto to the mid-1980s. Knight considers the ways in which
the New German Cinema engaged with contemporary West German reality and how
they can be read as raising important questions about West Germany's self understanding
in the postwar era. New German Cinema is an indispensable tool for both
lecturers and students. Softcover, 124 pp. $27.95.
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
Revised and Expanded Edition
Siegfried Kracauer
Ever since 1947, when this treatise on the rich cinematic history of the Weimar
Republic was first published, From Caligari to Hitler has never gone
out of print. Now this beautifully designed and entirely new edition reintroduces
Sigfried Kracauer's discussions of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis,
and The Blue Angel to the 21st century. Softcover, 348 pp. $29.95.
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