BFI Publishing New and Key Backlist Titles Coming in October: Gothic BFI Film Classics

New titles: The Shining • Pan’s Labyrinth • Nosferatu (1922) • The Innocents New second editions: Vampyr • Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari • Nosferatu (1979) • Cat People

Publishing to coincide with the BFI’s Gothic season in late 2013 Front and back cover credits: Tron (Steven Liseberger, 1982), © Walt Disney Productions The Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol, 1966), Factory Films

BFI Publishing 2013 BFI Film Classics

Welcome to the 2013 BFI Publishing catalogue. In July of this year we are publishing BFI TV Classics a new Screen Guide, 100 Science Fiction Films, which provides an indispensible guide to 100 of the best films from this hugely popular genre. BFI Screen Guides This fall we will be publishing a new set of BFI Film Classics, including The Shining, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Innocents and Nosferatu (1922), to coincide with Film Stars BFI Southbank’s Gothic season on influential horror and gothic films. BFI Silver Students and academics will be interested in The Documentary Film Book, a major new collection of essays exploring the field,The Italian Cinema Book, and a new addition to Cultural Histories of Cinema our International Screen Industries series: Hollywood in the New Millennium. Film Studies We hope you enjoy the books. British and Irish Cinema The BFI Publishing team. European Cinema Jenna Steventon, Senior Commissioning Editor and Head of Humanities | [email protected] World Cinema

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1 BFI FILM CLASSICS

The BFI Film Classics series introduces, interprets The Tales of Hoffmann Salesman and celebrates landmarks of world cinema. Each volume offers an argument for the film’s ‘classic’ William Germano, J.M. Tyree, Writer-at- status, together with discussion of its production Professor of English Large for Film and reception history, its place within a genre or Literature and Dean of Quarterly the Faculty of national cinema, an account of its technical and Released in 1968, the aesthetic importance, and in many cases, the Humanities and Social Sciences, Cooper Union Maysles’ Salesman is author’s personal response to the film. for the Advancement widely acknowledged as a landmark in Editoral Advisory Board: Geoff Andrew, Edward of Science and Art, documentary film. In Buscombe, William Germano, Lalitha Gopalan, USA his compelling and Lee Grieveson, Nick James, Laura Mulvey, Alastair The Tales of Hoffmann detailed study, J.M. Tyree Phillips, Dana Polan, B. Ruby Rich and Amy Villarejo (1951) is a unique and discusses the film’s important film, both various technical and in the history of British artistic innovations,

Written on the Wind cinema and in the tracing their theoretical history of interdisciplinary art-making. It is the first roots and enduring influence. Peter William Evans, full-throttle presentation of an opera on screen: a Emeritus Professor of Technicolor exploration of romance, fantasy, and October 2012 104pp Film, Queen Mary, failure, more danced than sung. Paperback $17.95 (C$19.95) 978-1-84457-387-5 University of London, UK June 2013 120pp Paperback $17.95 (C$19.95) 978-1-84457-446-9 This is the first single

study of Douglas Sirk’s 1956 film Written on the New Wind, a melodrama about an alcoholic playboy who marries the woman his Praise for the BFI Film Classics: best friend secretly loves. Peter Evans “ ‘Magnificently concentrated examples of flowing incorporates original archival research to examine freeform critical poetry.’ - Uncut the production, promotion and reception of this ‘The series is a landmark in film criticism.’ - masterpiece of Hollywood melodrama. Quarterly Review of Film and Video

May 2013 104pp ‘A formidable body of work collectively generating Paperback $17.95 (C$19.95) 978-1-84457-420-9 some fascinating insights into the evolution of cinema.’ - Times Higher Education Supplement New 2 Olympia 20th Anniversary Editions 2nd edition La Règle du jeu Snow White and the Seven Taylor Downing, Television Producer, V.F. Perkins, Honorary Dwarfs Writer and co-founder Professor of Film of Flashback Television Studies, Warwick Eric Smoodin, Professor of American ‘...it’s hard to think of University, UK Studies and Cinema what more a reader La Règle du jeu was a and Technocultural would want without disaster at its premiere Studies, University of straying too far from in 1939, just weeks California, Davis, USA the film in hand. This before the outbreak is as thorough and of war. Renoir had ‘...gives us the essential detailed an account of to wait twenty years background...’ - Total a classic as you could for his vindication. In Film hope for.’ - The Digital 1959, a reconstructed Based on extensive Fix print triumphed in its research in materials ‘...this is a timely updated edition of filmmaker first screening at the from the period of Downing’s excellent study of Leni Riefenstahl’s Venice Film Festival. Since then it has claimed its the film’s production controversial documentary about the 1936 Berlin place among the cinema’s most profound and and distribution, Eric Olympics.’ - P.D. Smith, The Guardian fascinating achievements. V.F. Perkins traces the Smoodin’s study presents a careful history of film’s fortunes from the time of its production. He the events that led up to Snow White and the Seven Taylor Downing provides an indispensible guide to offers a nuanced account that explores its shifting Dwarfs, the trajectory of Disney’s career that made one of the most controversial films ever made, Leni moods, the depth of its themes and the uniqueness this extraordinary project a logical next step, Riefenstahl’s Olympia. Incorporating discussion of of its style. the reception of the film in the US and around new material and new archival information about the world, and its impact on so many aspects of its development, Downing also gives a film-maker’s September 2012 112pp contemporary culture. insights into the logistical and technical problems Paperback $14.95 (C$16.95) 978-0-85170-965-9 faced by the production. September 2012 112pp Paperback $14.95 (C$16.95) 978-1-84457-475-9 March 2012 128pp Paperback $17.95 (C$19.95) 978-1-84457-470-4

3 20th Anniversary Editions

Don’t Look Now The Wizard of Oz Blade Runner 2nd edition 2nd edition 2nd edition

Mark Sanderson, Salman Rushdie, Scott Bukatman, Literary Critic, London Award-winning Cultural Theorist and Evening Standard and Novelist Professor of Film and Sunday Telegraph Media Studies, With a new foreword Stanford University, With a new foreword by the author USA by Jason Wood The Wizard of Oz ‘was With a new foreword Don’t Look Now, released my very first literary by the author in 1973, confirmed influence,’ writes director Nicolas Roeg as Salman Rushdie in his Scott Bukatman details one of the most stylish account of the great the making of Blade and innovative British MGM children’s classic. Runner and its steadily directors of the postwar For Rushdie The Wizard improving fortunes period. The book of Oz is more than a following its release in includes an exclusive interview with Roeg as well children’s film, and more than a fantasy. It is a story 1982. He situates the film in terms of debates about as rare unpublished comments from Julie Christie. whose driving force is the inadequacy of adults, postmodernism, which have informed much of the where the weakness of grown-ups forces children criticism devoted to it, but argues that its tensions September 2012 88pp to take control of their own destinies. derive also from the quintessentially twentieth- Paperback $14.95 (C$16.95) 978-1-84457-515-2 century, modernist experience of the city. September 2012 80pp Paperback $14.95 (C$16.95) 978-1-84457-516-9 September 2012 112pp Paperback $14.95 (C$16.95) 978-1-84457-522-0

4 20th Anniversary Editions

Citizen Kane Metropolis Singin’ in the Rain 2nd edition 2nd edition 2nd edition

Laura Mulvey, Thomas Elsaesser, Peter Wollen, Professor of Film and Emeritus Professor, formerly, University of Media Studies, University of California at Los Birkbeck College, Amsterdam, The Angeles, USA University of London, Netherlands UK With a new foreword With a new foreword by Geoff Andrew With a new foreword by the author by the author Singin’ in the Rain Thomas Elsaesser remains one of the Laura Mulvey explores the cultural best loved films ever illuminates the richness phenomenon of made. In a shot-by-shot of Citizen Kane, both Metropolis: its different analysis of the famous thematically and versions (there is no title number, Peter stylistically, relating it definitive one), its Wollen shows how Gene to Welles’s political background and its historical changing meanings, and its role as a database of Kelly binds the dance and musical elements into context. She also investigates the psychoanalytic twentieth-century imagery and ideologies. In his the narrative, and convincingly argues that the structure that underlies the film’s presentation of foreword to this special edition Elsaesser discusses film was the high point in the careers of those who Kane’s biography. the impact of the 27 minutes of ‘lost’ footage worked on it. discovered in Buenos Aires in 2008. September 2012 104pp September 2012 88pp Paperback $14.95 (C$17.95) 978-1-84457-497-1 September 2012 112pp Paperback $14.95 (C$16.95) 978-1-84457-514-5 Paperback $14.95 (C$16.95) 978-1-84457-501-5

5 20th Anniversary Editions

Taxi Driver Vertigo Went the Day Well? 2nd edition 2nd edition 2nd edition

Amy Taubin, Charles Barr, Penelope Houston, Contributing Editor, Adjunct Professor, John British Film Critic Film Comment and Huston Centre for Film Sight & Sound and and Digital Media, With a new foreword Writer, Artforum National University of by Geoff Brown Ireland With a new foreword Went the Day Well? by the author With a new foreword is one of the most unusual Ealing Studios by the author Taxi Driver is one of pictures,a distinctly the major films of Although it can be seen unsentimental war film the 1970s, which as Hitchcock’s most made in the darkest established Martin personal film, Charles days of WWII. Houston Scorcese’s reputation as Barr argues that Vertigo studies why the film a prominent American is at the same time a avoids the cosy Ealing director. In her foreword to this special edition Amy triumph not so much of individual authorship as of trademark. In his foreword to this special edition, Taubin considers Taxi Driver anew in the context of creative collaboration. He highlights the crucial role Geoff Brown pays homage to Penelope Houston’s contemporary politics of race and masculinity in of screenwriters Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor astute study, and places the book in the context of the US, and draws on an exclusive interview with and, by a combination of textual and contextual Went the Day Well?’s changing critical reception. Robert De Niro about his memories of making the analysis, explores the reasons why Vertigo film. continues to inspire such fascination. September 2012 72pp Paperback $14.95 (C$16.95) 978-1-84457-500-8 September 2012 88pp September 2012 104pp Paperback $14.95 (C$16.95) 978-1-84457-499-5 Paperback $14.95 (C$16.95) 978-1-84457-498-8

6 Selected Backlist Caché (Hidden) The Shawshank Redemption Catherine Wheatley Mark Kermode For a full list of titles available in this series visit http://us.macmillan.com/ 978-1-84457-349-3 978-0-85170-968-0 series/BFIFilmClasics Paperback • $17.95 (C$19.95) each

Back to the Future The Exorcist Star Wars Andrew Shail & Robin Stoate Mark Kermode Will Brooker 978-1-84457-293-9 978-0-85170-967-3 978-1-84457-277-9

The Big Lewbowski The Godfather Withnail and I J.M. Tyree & Ben Walters Jon Lewis Kevin Jackson 978-1-84457-173-4 978-1-84457-292-2 978-1-844570-35-5

The Birds Jaws 2001: A Space Odyssey Camille Paglia Antonia Quirke Peter Krämer 978-0-85170-651-1 978-0-85170-929-1 978-1-84457-286-1

7 BFI TV CLASSICS

Bleak House The Beiderbecke Affair BFI TV Classics is a series of books celebrating key individual television programmes and series. Christine Geraghty, William Gallagher, Television scholars, critics and novelists provide Honorary Professorial Journalist and critical readings underpinned with careful Fellow, University of Television Historian research, alongside a personal response to the Glasgow, UK and programme and a case for its ‘classic’ status. Honorary Research The Beiderbecke Affair was Fellow, Goldsmiths, an immensely popular Editorial Advisory Board: Stella Bruzzi, Glyn University of London, 1980s television drama, Davis, Mark Duguid, Jason Jacobs, Karen Lury, UK which, unusually, led to Toby Miller, Rachel Moseley and Phil Wickham sequels, novels, albums Bleak House is one of and even jazz tours. Charles Dickens’s Written by a personal darker works: a vision of friend of Alan Plater, The World at War London as the polluted, this book is the first to diseased heart of an be published about the Taylor Downing, industrializing nation. drama. It explores the Television Producer, In 2005, the BBC broadcast a major new adaptation, making, impact and influence of the series. Writer and co-founder scripted by Andrew Davies, which controversially of Flashback Television combined the suspense of soap opera with visual October 2012 144pp innovation, careful attention to period detail, and Paperback $22.95 (C$26.95) 978-1-84457-469-8 The World at War is the outstanding performances. Christine Geraghty’s most successful history revealing study strongly makes the case for the series ever produced contemporary BBC adaptation of Bleak House as a by British television. true television classic. TV producer and writer Taylor Downing October 2012 152pp explores the style, ethos, Paperback $19.95 (C$22.95) 978-1-84457-417-9 television context and impact of the program, in a study that draws on interviews with the producer, Jeremy Isaacs, and original archive research.

November 2012 192pp Paperback $23.95 (C$27.95) 978-1-84457-483-4

8 Deadwood Selected Backlist

Jason Jacobs, Reader Prime Suspect in Cultural History, Deborah Jermyn School of English, For a full list of titles available in this Media Studies and Art 978-1-84457-305-9 History, University of series visit http://us.macmillan.com/ Queensland, Australia series/BFITVClassics

Jason Jacobs’ study of Deadwood (HBO, 2004-6) combines an in-depth production CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Seinfeld and reception history with astute analysis of Steven Cohan Nicholas Mirzoeff the series’ key themes 978-1-84457-255-7 978-1-84457-201-4 and aesthetic strategies to argue that the show not only marked a radical revision of the Western genre but an outstanding work of television art.

July 2012 200pp Paperback $15.00 (C$17.00) 978-1-84457-362-2 Edge of Darkness Seven Up John Caughie Stella Bruzzi 978-1-84457-200-7 978-1-84457-196-3

Queer as Folk Star Trek Glyn Davis Ina Rae Hark 978-1-84457-199-4 978-1-84457-214-4

9 BFI SCREEN GUIDES

100 Cult Films 100 Science Fiction Films Ernest Mathijs, Barry Keith Grant, Professor of Film and Popular Culture, Brock Associate Professor of University, Canada Film Studies, University of British An indispensible guide to 100 of the best science fiction films. With Columbia, Canada and an in-depth exploration of each film, this is an accessible but rigorous Xavier Mendik, exploration both for fans who want to know more and for students. Director of the Contents: Introduction • Aelita • Alien • Alphaville • Altered States Cine-Excess • Avatar • Back to the Future • The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms International Film • Blade Runner • Born in Flames • A Boy and his Dog • Brazil • Festival and DVD The Brother From Another Planet • The Cabin in the Woods • A label, University of Clockwork Orange • Close Encounters of the Third Kind • Colossus: Brighton, UK The Forbin Project • The Damned • Dark City • Dark Star • The Day the Earth Stood Still • The essential guide to 100 of world cinema’s most Destination Moon • District 9 • Dune • Enemy Mine • E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial • Fahrenheit fascinating and influential cult films. This lavishly 451 • Fantastic Voyage • The Fifth Element • Flash Gordon (serial) • The Fly • Forbidden Planet illustrated guide provides an entertaining and • Frankenstein • Frau im mond (Woman in the Moon) • Galaxy Quest • Ghost in the Shell • eye-opening account of 100 cult favourites, from a Gojira (Godzilla) • The Host • The Incredible Shrinking Man • I Am Legend • Invaders From range of genres and directors. It features entries on Mars • Invasion of the Body Snatchers • The Invisible Man • Island of Lost Souls • La Jetée films from 1920 to the present, including The Wizard • Jurassic Park • Just Imagine • Last Night • Liquid Sky • Mad Max • The Man Who Fell to of Oz, This is Spinal Tap, Donnie Darko, Dirty Dancing, Earth • Mars Attacks! • The Matrix • Metropolis • Nineteen Eighty-Four • Paris qui dort • Plan Suspiria and Night of the Living Dead. Drawing on 9 From Outer Space • Planet of the Apes • Quatermass and the Pit • The Quiet Earth • The exclusive interviews with some of the world’s most Road • Robo-cop • Seconds • Signs • Silent Running • The Silent Star • Slaughterhouse-Five iconic cult creators and performers, and featuring a • Sleep Dealer • Sleeper • Solaris • Soylent Green • Star Trek: The Motion Picture • Star Wars foreword by cult director Joe Dante, 100 Cult Films is • Starship Troopers • Strange Days • Superman • The Terminator • Tetsuo: The Iron Man • your ultimate ticket to the midnight movie show. Them! • They Live • The Thing From Another World • The Thing • Things to Come • THX 1138 • The Time Machine • Total Recall • Tribulation 99: Alien Anomolies Under America • Tron • December 2011 256pp The Tunnel • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea • 2001: A Space Odyssey • Videodrome • Village Paperback $21.00 (C$24.00) 978-1-84457-408-7 of the Damned • Le Voyage dans la lune • WALL-E • The War Game • The War of the Worlds • Westworld • When Worlds Collide • X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes • Zardoz • Notes • Further Reading

July 2013 256pp Paperback $20.00 (C$23.00) 978-1-84457-457-5

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10 100 Silent Films 100 Film Musicals 100 Animated Feature Films

Bryony Dixon, Senior Jim Hillier and Andrew Osmond, Curator at the BFI Douglas Pye, Visiting Journalist and writer, National Archive Fellows in the Sight & Sound Department of Film, ‘This is no bluffer’s Theatre and Television, ‘…this compendium guide. The enjoyment of University of Reading, couldn’t be better silent cinema is Dixon’s UK timed. Flaunting both priority. As Dixon says excellent taste and when discussing Hell’s A selection of 100 in-depth knowledge, Hinges (1916): ‘Nearly films from one of the Osmond’s book everything in current best-loved genres of certainly won’t cinema can be traced Hollywood and world disappoint aficionados...’ - Total Film back to the silent era.’ cinema, with entries ‘...The effect is that we consider not only the And that’s why this ranging from Gold individual title in question, but also the history of guide is so valuable - Diggers of 1933 to High animated cinema as a whole; for Osmond it is all anyone interested in how cinema became what School Musical of 2006, and from the Reggae classic interconnected, and rightly so.’ - The Digital Fix it is today will find many of the answers here, The Harder They Come to Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa (1957). both in Bryony Dixon’s illuminating book and the The authors’ introduction outlines the history and ‘...a learned attempt at an overview of full-length films you will rush to watch the minute you put it key features of the film musical. cinematic animation from the sublime to the down.’ - Silent London whimsical...’ - The Evening Standard ‘Dixon captures some of silent cinema’s most August 2011 296pp ‘...a thoughtful romp through every animation Paperback $21.00 (C$24.00) 978-1-84457-378-3 sublime moments - Charlie Chaplin mournfully discipline...If you want animation-buff status, seeing eating his shoelaces in The Gold Rush (1925) or the this ton of ‘toons armed with Osmond’s insights is a woodland chase in People on Sunday (1930) - with pretty good place to start.’ - Empire Magazine an infectious joy.’ - Lucian Robinson, The Times Literary Supplement The animated feature film has been long under- represented in film criticism. Yet animated films This illuminating guide provides a selection of one have probably never been a stronger force in world hundred key films of the silent period (1895-1930), cinema than they are today. This book discusses featuring films from a variety of countries, genres and 100 key animated films from around the world, directors, together with an introductory overview and from Shrek to Svankmajer. useful filmographic and bibliographic information.

April 2010 252pp August 2011 272pp Hardback $30.00 (C$34.50) 978-1-84457-340-0 Hardback $80.00 (C$92.00) 978-1-84457-309-7 Paperback $21.00 (C$24.00) 978-1-84457-308-0

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100 American Independent 100 Film Noirs Films Jim Hillier, Visiting BFI Screen Guides 2nd edition Fellow, Department of Film and Television Jason Wood, Director Studies, University of Apps of Programming for Reading, UK and Curzon Cinemas Alastair Phillips, Associate Professor, This revised and Department of Film updated edition and Television Studies, provides a guide to 100 University of Warwick, of the most interesting UK and influential ‘100 Film Noirs offers American independent many insights into films, from Bonnie and the history and visual Clyde to Junebug by way grammar of the genre and provides the perfect of Reservoir Dogs and The excuse to revisit some classics and discover some Blair Witch Project with forgotten masterpieces.’ - P.D. Smith, The Guardian 100 Cult Films: BFI Screen Guides an introduction to the genre and a rich selection of images from the films ‘As has already been indicated, this is an discussed, plus key credits. authoritative work, as one might expect with the imprint of the British Film Institute. It is September 2009 272pp extremely readable in style and is recommended Hardback $90.00 (C$104.00) 978-1-84457-290-8 for students of film studies in school, college, or Paperback $20.95 (C$23.95) 978-1-84457-289-2 university, as well as for public libraries where it would be eagerly read by lovers of film noir.’ - Eric Jukes, Reference Reviews This BFI Screen Guide provides an accessible, richly- illustrated introduction to 100 key noir films, from Hollywood classics such as Double Indemnity to more recent titles such as Sin City, as well as examples 100 American Independent Films: from Europe, Japan, India and Mexico, together with BFI Screen Guides an editorial overview of the genre and its key debates.

June 2009 296pp Paperback $20.95 (C$23.95) 978-1-84457-216-8 Available to buy soon from the iTunes App Store

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12 FILM stars

Each book in this major new BFI series focuses Brigitte Bardot Carmen Miranda on an international film star, tracing the Ginette Vincendeau, Lisa Shaw, University development of their star persona, their career Professor in Film of Liverpool, UK trajectory and their acting and performance Studies, King’s College style. Some also examine the cultural London, UK Lisa Shaw’s study of significance of a star’s work, as well as their Miranda’s film career lasting influence and legacy. The series ranges In this original and and star persona traces from silent to contemporary cinema and from illuminating study, film her emergence as one Hollywood to Asian cinemas, and addresses scholar and Brigitte of the first stars of the both child and adult stardom. Bardot fan Ginette Brazilian film industry Vincendeau explores and her subsequent Series Editors: Martin Shingler and Susan Smith, the star’s complex and triumph in Hollywood. both at University of Sunderland, UK revolutionary image Shaw charts Miranda’s of femininity, her film transition from singer to career and her lasting film star, analyzing how and controversial her star persona drew on Barbara Stanwyck celebrity. Analyzing all Bardot’s output, performance techniques honed during her singing encompassing popular comedies and melodramas, career. She examines shifts in Miranda’s star identity Andrew Klevan, work with New Wave directors Louis Malle and after her move to Broadway in 1939, and Hollywood University of Oxford, Jean-Luc Godard, and international productions a year later, with her identification as an ‘ethnic’

UK such as Dear Brigitte (1965) and Shalako (1968), star emphasized by extravagant baiana costumes. During her Hollywood Vincendeau shows how Bardot’s enduring fame is Shaw shows how Miranda consciously constructed career, Barbara based on her status as a sexual, lifestyle, musical, an identity that both endorsed and subverted Stanwyck starred in and fashion role model and even, in her guise as stereotypes about Latin America during the era of many major genres Marianne, the emblem of the French Republic, an the ‘Good Neighbor Policy’, and explores Miranda’s including film noir, icon of national identity. Finally, she considers the appeal across mainstream and marginalised melodrama, and ageing Bardot’s continued prominence in popular audiences, both in the US and Brazil. Finally, she Western. Andrew culture through her own writings and animal rights examines Miranda’s impact on material culture, Klevan considers activism, arguing that, as well as a glamorous film particularly women’s fashions, both during her Stanywck the performer, star, Bardot was one of the inventors of modern lifetime and until the present day, and the role played and also offers a fresh celebrity. in the consecration of her ‘tropical’ star persona by way of approaching the imitators, ranging from Bugs Bunny, Lucille Ball and achievements of Classic Hollywood cinema, and April 2013 184pp Mickey Rooney, to contemporary Carmen Miranda Hollywood film performance more generally. Paperback $19.95 (C$22.95) 978-1-84457-492-6 imitators of both genders.

October 2013 170pp New April 2013 168pp Paperback $22.95 (C$26.50) 978-1-84457-348-7 Paperback $19.95 (C$22.95) 978-1-84457-432-2

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13 Elizabeth Taylor Nicole Kidman Star Studies

Susan Smith, Senior Pam Cook, Professor A Critical Guide Lecturer in Film Emerita in Film, Studies, University of University of Martin Shingler, Sunderland, UK Southampton, UK Senior Lecturer in Radio and Film ‘Smith packs her slim Nicole Kidman Studies, University of volume with telling is a high-profile, Sunderland, UK detail and a vivid successful exponent re-evaluation of the of contemporary This book provides a actress’ incredible commodity stardom, lively introduction to flair for engaging with and a product of the major approaches audiences.’ - Total Film fundamental changes and key developments in the media industries within this area of film Elizabeth Taylor was over the last two studies. It identifies a one of the major film decades. Pam Cook number of dominant stars of the twentieth vividly brings to life her journey from Australian themes, explains century, embodying all the glamour and allure actress to global superstar, looking at her work major theories, of Hollywood stardom. Yet her achievements as in different contexts from film and television concepts and methodologies, and explores the an actress have often been overshadowed by her to fashion, commercials, philanthropy and the diversity of approaches that have helped shape beauty and tumultuous life off-screen. To redress Internet. In-depth analysis of key films such as the international study of stars and stardom. this imbalance, Susan Smith offers an illuminating Dead Calm, To Die For, Eyes Wide Shut and The Hours Comparing the stars and star systems of study of Elizabeth Taylor’s work in film, exploring reveals Kidman’s development of an ‘actorly’ Hollywood, Bollywood, China and many European her fascinating trajectory from child to adult star. performance style that enables her to combine countries, Martin Shingler considers the multiple Smith reveals the influence that Taylor’s early stardom and celebrity with award-winning acting. functions of stars: as an elite workforce within the work exerted over her later career and the ways Cook delves into the intricate media networks that film industry, as actors and performers, as role in which her on-screen identity is profoundly circulate Kidman’s image and story, assessing the models and cultural representatives, as icons and rooted in her association with animals and nature. contribution of her Australian identity to building images, as transnational and national symbols, Smith carefully unpicks what made Taylor such her personal brand, the Botox controversy, her and as commodities. This book provides a cogent a distinctive and dynamic on-screen performer recent move into production and her cultural overview of star studies, while suggesting some – from the expressive use she made of her eyes impact. This absorbing case study unveils a star useful avenues for further research. Star Studies to the dramatic significance of her voice – and narrative as compelling as any that appears in her provides an essential theoretical and historical considers the importance of certain professional films. companion to the individual star volumes in the collaborations that Taylor forged during her Film Stars series. career, most notably her acting partnership with Montgomery Clift. August 2012 160pp Paperback $19.95 (C$22.95) 978-1-84457-488-9 September 2012 240pp Paperback $20.00 (C$23.95) 978-1-84457-490-2 September 2012 184pp Paperback $19.95 (C$22.95) 978-1-84457-486-5

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Signs and Meaning in the Fetishism and Curiosity A Mirror for England Cinema Cinema and the Mind’s Eye British Movies from Austerity to Affluence 5th edition 2nd edition 2nd edition

Peter Wollen, Laura Mulvey, Raymond Durgnat, formerly, University of Birkbeck College, (1932–2002) was the California, USA University of London, author of many UK groundbreaking books With a new foreword about the cinema by D.N. Rodowick With a new foreword by the author With a foreword by First published in 1969, Kevin Gough-Yates Signs and Meaning in the This new edition of Cinema transformed Laura Mulvey’s classic Raymond Durgnat’s the emerging discipline work of feminist theory classic study of British of film studies. contains writings which films from the 1940s Remarkably eclectic range from analyses to the 1960s, first and informed, Peter of Xala, Citizen Kane, published in 1970, Wollen’s highly and Blue Velvet to an remains one of the influential and groundbreaking work remains extended engagement with the work of American most important books ever written on British a brilliant and accessible theorization of film Indian artist Jimmie Durham and the feminist cinema. Durgnat used Mirror to assert the valid- as an art form and as a sign system. This fifth photographer Cindy Sherman. The essays explore ity of British cinema against its dismissal by the edition brings together material from the four the concept of fetishism as developed by Marx critics of Cahiers du cinéma and Sight & Sound. previous editions, inviting the reader to trace and Freud, and how it relates to the ways in which His analysis takes in classics such as In Which the development of Wollen’s thinking, and the artistic texts work. Mulvey here returns to some of We Serve (1942), A Matter of Life and Death (1946) unfolding of the discourse of cinema. the knottier issues in contemporary cultural theory, especially the links between looking, fantasy and and The Blue Lamp (1949), alongside ‘B’ films and theorization, on the one hand, and the processes popular genres such as Hammer horror. Durg- May 2013 288pp of historical change on the other. What are the nat makes a cogent and compelling case for Hardback $85.00 (C$98.00) 978-1-84457-361-5 the success of British films in reflecting British Paperback $29.95 (C$34.50) 978-1-84457-360-8 modes of address that characterize ‘societies of predicaments, moods and myths, at the same the spectacle’? How might ‘curiosity’ be directed towards deciphering the politics of popular culture? time as providing some disturbing new insights New These are some of the questions raised in this into a national character by whose enigmas and brilliant and subtle collection. contradictions we continue to be perplexed and fascinated.

August 2013 256pp Hardback $85.00 (C$98.00) 978-1-84457-509-1 December 2011 416pp Paperback $19.95 (C$22.95) 978-1-84457-508-4 Hardback $95.00 (C$109.00) 978-1-84457-454-4 Paperback $25.95 (C$29.95) 978-1-84457-453-7 New 15 CULTURAL HISTORIES OF CINEMA

This series examines the relationship between Shadow Economies of cinema and culture. It features interdisciplinary Cinema scholarship that focuses on the national and transnational trajectories of cinema as a network Mapping Informal Film Distribution of institutions, representations, practices and technologies. Of primary concern is analyzing Ramon Lobato, cinema’s expansive role in the complex Swinburne University social, economic and political dynamics of the of Technology, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Australia

Series Editors: Lee Grieveson, University College Shadow Economies of Cinema examines how London, UK, and Haidee Wasson, Concordia films travel through University, Canada time and space, both inside and outside Empire and Film established circuits of audiovisual trade. October 2011 304pp Combining industrial Hardback $100.00 (C$115.00) 978-1-84457-422-3 and cultural analysis, Paperback $30.00 (C$34.50) 978-1-84457-421-6 this book looks at distribution circuits from across the Americas, Africa and the Asia-Pacific, and explains how they shape film culture in their own image. Film and the End of Empire

November 2011 320pp April 2012 176pp Hardback $95.00 (C$109.00) 978-1-84457-424-7 Hardback $85.00 (C$98.00) 978-1-84457-412-4 Paperback $29.95 (C$34.50) 978-1-84457-423-0 Paperback $25.95 (C$29.95) 978-1-84457-411-7 Edited by Lee Grieveson, Director of Film Studies, University College London, UK and Colin MacCabe, Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh and Associate Director of the London Consortium In these two volumes of original essays, scholars from around the world address the history of British colonial cinema stretching from the emergence of cinema at the height of imperialism, to moments of decolonization and the ending of formal imperialism in the post-Second World War period.

16 film studies

The Cinema Book New Vampire Cinema What If I Had Been the Hero?

3rd edition Ken Gelder, Investigating Women’s Cinema University of Edited by Pam Cook, Melbourne, Australia Sue Thornham, Professor Emerita in University of Sussex, Film, University of New Vampire Cinema lifts UK Southampton, UK the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire What happens when ‘With excellent essays, films, charting the women tell their own close textual analysis evolution of the genre. stories in film? In of films and further Ken Gelder’s study What If I Had Been the reading lists from some begins by looking at Hero?, Sue Thornham of the leading lights in Francis Ford Coppola’s addresses this the area, the book has Bram Stoker’s Dracula question through an proved an invaluable and Fran Rubel Kuzui’s exploration of a wide asset for those Buffy the Vampire Slayer. range of films, from negotiating their way New Vampire Cinema experimental feminist through the minefield then examines what happened afterwards, across film to mainstream of ideas and conflicting theories that make up the a remarkable range of reiterations of the vampire Hollywood, and from study of film...This weighty, yet still surprisingly that take it far beyond its original Transylvanian the 1970s to the present day, by film-makers succinct tome also has an excellent sense of setting: the suburbs of Sweden (Let the Right One In), including Sally Potter, Jane Campion, Deepa design allowing the reader to dip in and out and the forests of North America (the Twilight films), Mehta, Patricia Rozema and Lynne Ramsay. pull out the relevant information as they wish... New York City (Nadja, The Addiction), Mexico (Cronos, Her discussion takes in films from India and obvious must for any student of film...excellent From Dusk Till Dawn), Japan (Blood: The Last Vampire, Argentina as well as Europe, Canada, Australia resource.’ - Laurence Boyce, Films and Festivals Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust), South Korea (Thirst), New and the US. Sue Thornham raises key issues about women as authors, subjects and heroes of The Cinema Book is widely recognized as the Zealand (Perfect Creature), Australia (Daybreakers), and their narratives. She argues that simple reversals ultimate guide to cinema. Authoritative and elsewhere. In a series of readings, Gelder determines of gendered positions of hero/heroine, active/ comprehensive, the third edition has been what is at stake when the cinematic vampire and passive, and subject/object are not enough. extensively revised, updated and expanded in the modern world are made to encounter one Drawing on a wide range of feminist theoretical response to developments in cinema and cinema another – where the new, the remake and the sequel sources, What If I Had Been the Hero? makes an studies. Lavishly illustrated in color, this edition find the vampire struggling to survive the past, the important intervention into contemporary features a wealth of exciting new sections and in- present and, in some cases, the distant future. debates, situating film-making within a rich depth case studies. history of female creativity, and insisting on the December 2012 168pp Hardback $85.00 (C$98.00) 978-1-84457-441-4 continuing importance of feminist theory. December 2007 450pp Paperback $24.95 (C$29.95) 978-1-84457-440-7 Paperback $47.95 (C$54.95) 978-1-84457-193-2 August 2012 248pp Hardback $74.95 (C$86.00) 978-1-84457-364-6 Paperback $24.95 (C$28.95) 978-1-84457-363-9

17 Film Moments Shadows of Progress The Documentary Film Criticism, History, Theory Documentary Film in Post-War Britain Book

Edited by James Edited by Patrick Edited by Brian Walters, Lecturer in Russell, Senior Winston, Lincoln Film and Television Curator (Non-Fiction), Chair of Studies, University of BFI National Archive Communications, Birmingham, UK and and James Piers University of Lincoln, Tom Brown, Lecturer, Taylor, Independent UK Department of Film, Curator and Film Powerfully posing Theatre and Television, Historian questions of ethics, University of Reading, This unique ideology, authorship UK book addresses and form, documentary ‘Certain moments in the sponsorship, cinema has never films stay with us, and production, distribution been more popular often we don’t know and key themes of than it is today. Edited why. Here is an array of such memorable moments, British documentary by the leading British with an array of notable critics and scholars cinema from 1945 to authority in the field, The Documentary Film Book endeavoring to tell us why. Concise like the the early 1980s. It features contributions from the is an essential guide to current thinking on moments that inspired them, the essays gathered curatorial and academic worlds, providing profiles documentary film. In a series of fascinating essays, here open our eyes in various ways to the meaning of major filmmakers of the period, outlining their key international experts discuss the theory of of moving images. This is a book full of insights into career histories and key themes of their work. documentary, outline current understanding the details that make all the difference.’ - Gilberto of the history of documentary (from before Perez, Sarah Lawrence College, USA November 2010 448pp Flaherty to the post-Griersonian world of digital Hardback $105.00 (C$121.00) 978-1-84457-322-6 ‘i-Docs’), survey documentary production (from ‘...a terrific collection of short essays which Paperback $42.95 (C$49.50) 978-1-84457-321-9 Africa to Europe, and from the Americas to each address a specific sequence in a movie...’ - Asia), consider documentaries by marginalized lluminations minority communities, and assess documentary’s Film Moments brings together specially commissioned contribution to other disciplines and other arts. essays by leading international scholars to provide a Brought together here in one volume, these close analysis of key films of world cinema, including scholars offer compelling evidence as to why, over The Wizard of Oz, United 93, 8 1/2, Wild Strawberries the last decades, documentary has come to the and Magnolia. The essays represent a range of critical centre of screen studies. approaches to and concepts in film studies. 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Examining industrial and ethical computers and an dynamics of brevity factors that determine avant-garde of digital utopians engaged in and evanescence in the its production. This computer-aided art (spare a thought for the sad television and new media environment, this book edition addresses the ethical quagmires, digital fate of the ‘lightpen’), who tempted directors provides a new perspective on the transitory, and technologies and proliferating forms that have to adopt their technology, as with Westworld’s transitional, nature of screen culture in the early transformed documentary cinema. pixellated point-of-view shots. Quirky techno- anecdotes abound: the hacking of scavenged twenty-first century. second-world-war ballistics computers; the January 2009 336pp Hardback $100.00 (C$115.00) 978-1-84457-272-4 origin of ASCII art; talk of a computer that makes November 2011 248pp Paperback $29.95 (C$34.50) 978-1-84457-271-7 a ‘Freudian slip’; and even an evocative appeal to Hardback $95.00 (C$109.00) 978-1-84457-435-3 ‘robotic ontology’. Is it time to watch The Matrix Paperback $25.95 (C$29.95) 978-1-84457-434-6 again yet?’ - The Guardian Andrew Utterson’s unique study charts the beginnings of digital cinema, addressing both how filmmakers used new digital technologies and how attitudes and anxieties about the rise of the computer were represented in films such as Lang’s Desk Set, Godard’s Alphaville, Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Crichton’s Westworld.

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19 Cinema and Colour A History of Experimental The Sound of Musicals

The Saturated Image Film and Video Edited by Steven 2nd edition Cohan, Professor of Paul Coates, English, Syracuse University of Western University, USA Ontario, Canada A.L. Rees, Research Tutor in Visual ‘...a rewarding volume A study of the use of Communication, Royal of recent papers...’ - color in film, and of the College of Art, UK Illuminations ways in which color has been theorized, This revised and This collection both as a concept and updated edition addresses the film specifically in terms of covers the history of musical, a central genre cinema. Paul Coates avante-garde film and in the Hollywood studio focuses on the use of video, ranging from system, which has color in films ranging Cezanne and dada, via also been important including All that Heaven Cocteau, Brakhage and within British, Hindi and Chinese cinema. Allows, Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle, Three Le Grice, to the new Leading international scholars explore key issues, Colours: Red and The Wizard of Oz. wave of British video traditions, subgenres, stars and films of the musical artists from the 1990s film from the 1930s to the present. to the present day. The November 2010 184pp author also reconstitutes the avante-garde film as Hardback $100.00 (C$115.00) 978-1-84457-315-8 December 2010 232pp Paperback $30.95 (C$35.50) 978-1-84457-314-1 an independent form of art practice with its own Hardback $85.00 (C$98.00) 978-1-84457-347-9 internal logic and aesthetic discourse. Paperback $25.95 (C$29.95) 978-1-84457-346-2

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20 BRITISH AND IRISH CINEMA

Ealing Revisited

Behind the Scenes at the BBFC Edited by Mark Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age Duguid, Senior Curator at the BFI Edited by Edward Lamberti, Information Services Manager, National Archive, Lee BBFC Freeman, PhD Student in Ealing With a foreword by Mark Kermode Studios, University of Hull, UK, Keith Established by the film industry in 1912 as the nation’s only official Johnston, Senior and independent classifier of the moving image, the British Board Lecturer in Film and of Film Classification (originally the British Board of Film Censors) Television and has long been a source of fascination – and sometimes a bone of Melanie Williams, contention – for filmgoers, filmmakers and industry figures. This Lecturer in Film and book, published in the BBFC’s centenary year, addresses Britain’s Television Studies, film classification history, and marks an unparalleled collaboration both at University of East Anglia, UK between the Board and leading film critics, historians and cultural commentators. These writers, given unprecedented access to the Ealing Revisited provides a major reappraisal of one BBFC’s archives, chart the organization’s history alongside the cultural, social and political forces of British cinema’s best-loved institutions, Ealing that have helped shape it. Together they explore shifting public attitudes towards cinema’s Studios. During its heyday, Ealing produced a string portrayal of sex and drugs, horror and violence; the different perspectives of the Board’s of classic comedies, including Kind Hearts and successive leaders; the impact of controversial decisions, and the ever-changing nature of moving Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The image distribution and exhibition. The book also features unique case studies, written by BBFC Ladykillers (1955), but there is much more to Ealing staff, focusing on significant films that have provoked debate and controversy both within the than these films, as this volume of new writing on BBFC and more widely - Battleship Potemkin, The Snake Pit, A Clockwork Orange, Indiana Jones and the the studio shows. Addressing both known and less Temple of Doom, and many more. Behind the Scenes at the BBFC is an entertaining and invaluable familiar aspects of Ealing’s story, its films, actors insight into shifts in public attitudes over the last century, and how film classification shapes and technicians, the contributors uncover what has what we see on screen. gone unexplored, or unspoken, in previous histories of the studio, and consider the impact that Ealing has had on British cultural life from the 1930s to December 2012 240pp the present. Paperback $29.95 (C$34.50) 978-1-84457-476-6

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21 British Trash Cinema Colour Films in Britain British Colour Cinema

I.Q. Hunter, De The Negotiation of Innovation 1900-1955 Practices and Theories Montfort University, UK Sarah Street, Edited by Simon Professor of Film, Brown, Director of Written by one of the University of Bristol, Studies for Film and leading scholars in the UK Television and New field,British Trash Cinema Broadcasting Media, is the first book to offer Technical Appendix by Kingston University, a comprehensive survey Simon Brown UK, Sarah Street, of the full range of Professor of Film, British exploitation and ‘Sarah Street’s University of Bristol, paracinema, looking groundbreaking UK and Liz Watkins, beyond horror and study is that rare film Lecturer, University of sexploitation, to social history text which Leeds, UK problem films, art house camp, ‘badaptations’, is at once absolutely unregarded Hammer, erotic adaptations and authoritative, and Created as a companion private eye and spy films. pitched at a very high level in terms of discourse, volume to Colour Films in Britain, this book but still readily accessible to the general reader. features a series of unique interviews conducted In addition, the volume is richly — and I mean by Simon Brown, Sarah Street and Liz Watkins August 2013 256pp Hardback $85.00 (C$98.00) 978-1-84457-416-2 intensely – illustrated with numerous, exquisitely with practitioners who worked in the UK with Paperback $25.00 (C$29.00) 978-1-84457-415-5 printed frame blowups from the many films it Technicolor and/or Eastmancolor during the examines, all in full colour, and Street’s analysis 1930s-1950s. of the development of colour, not only in the New commercial British cinema, but also in the the June 2013 320pp experimental work of artists such as Len Lye, Hardback $90.00 (C$104.00) 978-1-84457-414-8 is meticulous and detailed.’ - Wheeler Winston Paperback $29.95 (C$43.50) 978-1-84457-413-1 Dixon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Sarah Street provides an economic, cultural and New aesthetic study of commercial color films in Britain, from silent cinema to the 1950s, presenting a detailed history of color processes and a textual analysis of individual color films, including The Open Road and Black Narcissus, and their place in British film culture.

November 2012 320pp Hardback $100.00 (C$115.00) 978-1-84457-313-4 Paperback $34.95 (C$39.95) 978-1-84457-312-7

22 The Projection of Britain Ken Loach The British Cinema Book A History of the GPO Film Unit The Politics of Film and Television 3rd edition

Edited by Scott John Hill, Professor of Edited by Robert Anthony, Journalist Media, Royal Holloway, Murphy, Professor of and Historian, Christ’s University of London, Film Studies, De College, University of UK Montfort University, Cambridge, UK and UK James G. Mansell, ‘Not only offers a Historian and Lecturer detailed critical study ‘The third edition of this in Cultural Studies, of virtually Loach’s excellent, illustrated University of entire output, but collection of essays on Nottingham, UK also explores the British cinema provides internal and external an overview of the key ‘The Projection of Britain politics governing [the issues, debates and is, like the GPO Film works’] production history. First published Unit itself, a bold, and reception, in often in 1997, it has been fascinating, eccentric and ambitious endeavour... fascinating detail... expanded to include case studies of individual this is a fine tribute to an exciting and influential [This is] clearly the most important addition to films, and several new essays on subjects such cultural project, and an essential companion Loach scholarship since Graham Fuller’s book- as the representation of women in 1950s cinema to the films now available in lavishly packaged length 1998 interview Loach on Loach.’ - Michael and the birth of British Asian cinema in the 90s. Its anthologies from the BFI.’ - Times Literary Brooke, Sight & Sound range is impressive.’ - Peter Smith, The Guardian Supplement ‘Hill’s definitive study of Loach’s television and ‘...a delightful gateway into the rich world of This beautifully illustrated volume provides film production from the mid-1960s to the British cinema.’ - Simon Brown, Viewfinder a comprehensive resource guide to the films, present combines first-rate primary research with The third edition of The British Cinema Book provides filmmakers and social and cultural importance of insightful thematic analysis to situate the director a comprehensive introduction to the history, the GPO Film Unit. In addition to original essays by and his work within the political, institutional, key debates and genres in British cinema, from leading film and cultural historians, the volume and artistic contexts that gave the work form.’ - 1895 to the present. Individual articles by leading reprints rare archival material about the work of CHOICE scholars are grouped in historical and thematic the Unit, as well as a GPO filmography and profiles John Hill’s definitive study looks at the career and sections, illuminated by in-depth case studies of of key figures. work of British director Ken Loach. From his early key films and a wealth of images. television work (Cathy Come Home) through to October 2011 352pp landmark films Kes( ) and examinations of British April 2009 352pp Hardback $100.00 (C$115.00) 978-1-84457-375-2 society (Looking For Eric) this landmark study reveals Paperback $32.95 (C$37.95) 978-1-84457-374-5 Paperback $34.95 (C$39.95) 978-1-84457-275-5 Loach as one of the great European directors.

August 2011 288pp Hardback $95.00 (C$109.00) 978-1-84457-202-1 Paperback $29.95 (C$34.50) 978-1-84457-203-8

23 The British ‘B’ Film British Film Posters

Steve Chibnall, An Illustrated History Sign up to our newsletter Professor of British to keep up-to-date with the Cinema at De Montfort Sim Branaghan, University, UK and Information Librarian latest publications, news Brian McFarlane, and Steve Chibnall, and competitions Adjunct Associate Professor of British Professor, Monash Cinema, De Montfort University, Melbourne, University, UK Australia and Visiting The first complete Professor, University of history of illustrated Hull, UK film posters in the UK ‘Both an invocation and covers every aspect a loving catalogue, the of design, printing book is rich in detail and display from the drawn from the history of the Bs before changing Victorian era to the A selected number of our books arrival of DeskTop taste, alterations in the law and the irresistible rise are available as ‘exam copies’ of television rendered the species extinct.’ - Times Publishing in the 1980s. British Film Posters Literary Supplement examines the contribution ‘vintage’ film posters for professors teaching relevant have made to British popular art of the twentieth This is the first book to provide a thorough century. courses, to assess the suitability examination of the British ‘B’ movie, from the of the books as recommended war years to the 1960s. The authors draw on January 2007 288pp archival research, contemporary trade papers and Hardback $135.00 (C$155.00) 978-1-84457-148-2 reading to students. interviews with key ‘B’ filmmakers to map the Paperback $44.95 (C$51.95) 978-1-84457-221-2 ‘B’ movie phenomenon both as artefact and as industry product, and as a reflection on their times. Visit www.palgrave.com for more information. November 2009 368pp Hardback $90.00 (C$104.00) 978-1-84457-320-2 Paperback $31.95 (C$36.95) 978-1-84457-319-6

24 european cinema

The Italian Cinema Book Antonioni Nino Rota

Edited by Peter Centenary Essays Music, Film and Feeling Bondanella, Distinguished Edited by Laura Richard Dyer, King's Professor Emeritus of Rascaroli, Senior College London, UK Comparative Lecturer in Film Studies, University The great Italian Literature, Film composer Nino Rota Studies and Italian, College Cork, Republic of Ireland and John wrote some of the Indiana University, loveliest and most USA David Rhodes, Senior Lecturer in Literature beloved of all film The Italian Cinema Book and Visual Culture, music, including provides an accessible, University of Sussex, The Godfather trilogy, dynamic, innovative UK Zeffirelli’s Shakespeares guide to the major and Fellini’s critical issues in the ‘The essays collected in masterpieces 8 1/2 and study of Italian cinema. It brings together some of this volume reappraise La Dolce Vita. Richard the most distinguished and innovative scholars, the centrality and Dyer’s study of Rota’s critics, and film historians in the field to consider continuing influence of Antonioni’s unique, life and work provides a detailed account of Rota’s a number of historical, cultural, and theoretical demanding, and controversial language to world aesthetic and of his unique genius. issues. Moving beyond familiar approaches, filmmakers. They testify that, even from a cultural the book showcases a number of new critical and historical moment different from ours, his September 2010 232pp methodologies through detailed exploration of case films can give us insights that allow to look with Hardback $85.00 (C$98.00) 978-1-84457-209-0 studies and analysis of key filmic texts. Chapters new eyes at the complexities and contradictions Paperback $25.95 (C$29.95) 978-1-84457-210-6 span the history and evolution of the Italian film of late-modernity.’ - British Universities Film & Video culture over a century. The silent era, the birth Council of ‘talkies’, realism during the Fascist period, the This collection of essays by leading film scholars golden age of the art film, and the age of crisis up addresses Michelangelo Antonioni as a pre- to 2010 are all discussed. The Italian Cinema Book eminent figure in European art cinema, explores offers a diverse range of original perspectives on his continuing influence and legacy, and engages the rise of Italian film stars, the structure of the film with his ability to both interpret and shape ideas of industry, the importance of the art and the genre modernity and modern cinema. film, and the representation of Italian culture and history in cinema. December 2011 344pp Hardback $95.00 (C$109.00) 978-1-84457-385-1 November 2013 320pp Paperback $30.95 (C$35.50) 978-1-84457-384-4 Hardback $95.00 (C$109.00) 978-1-84457-405-6 Paperback $29.95 (C$34.50) 978-1-84457-404-9

New 25 The French New Wave The French Cinema Book The German Cinema Book

Critical Landmarks Edited by Michael Edited by Tim Witt, University of Bergfelder, Lecturer in Edited by Peter Surrey, UK and Film Studies, University Graham, Critic and Michael Temple, of Southampton, UK, Writer and Ginette Birkbeck College, Erica Carter, Professor Vincendeau, University of London, of Film Studies and Professor of Film UK German, Kings College Studies, King’s College London, UK and Deniz London, UK ‘French cinema has... Göktürk, Associate been the subject of Professor of German, ‘This is an numerous academic indispensable point of University of California, studies over the years, Berkeley, USA reference for anyone but I doubt if any interested in the offer quite such an movement.’ - Sight& accessible and arresting The German Cinema Book brings together film Sound introduction as The French Cinema Book. Its editors, specialists from Europe and the United States to explore German film history from the late ‘...the re-printed essays Michael Temple and Michael Witt, state that the 25 nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. This in The French New Wave encapsulate an exciting contributors pledged to avoid the academic jargon comprehensive and accessible book re-evaluates time of cultural change with their fierce opinions and footnotes, and the approach has produced traditional areas of interest in German Cinema and alternative approach towards reading film.’ wonderful results.’ - Christopher Wood, Times (such as Weimar cinema, Nazi propaganda, New - Scope Higher Education Supplement German Cinema) and complements this with a This expanded edition of a classic anthology on The French Cinema Book is addressed to all lovers of fresh look at hitherto neglected aspects, including the French New Wave features original writings by French cinema, students and teachers, specialists Early Cinema, the cinema of the GDR, popular and interviews with filmmakers and critics such as and fans. It provides not only an accessible and genre traditions, questions of national cinema Godard, Truffaut and Bazin. Some newly translated innovative survey of key topics in French cinema and identity, and German film’s transnational for this edition, they are accompanied by critical from the 1890s to the twenty-first century but also connections to Hollywood, as well as to exile and and contextualizing commentary by the editors, new insights into familiar areas and sets out a fresh migrant cinemas. leading authorities in the field. agenda for the study and appreciation of French cinema. January 2003 304pp May 2009 288pp Paperback $29.95 (C$34.50) 978-0-85170-946-8 Hardback $90.00 (C$104.00) 978-1-84457-283-0 February 2008 294pp Paperback $26.95 (C$31.00) 978-1-84457-282-3 Paperback $32.95 (C$37.95) 978-1-84457-012-6

26 WORLD CINEMA

The Chinese Cinema Book INTERNATIONAL SCREEN INDUSTRIES

Edited by Song Hwee Lim, University of Series Editors: Michael Curtin, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA and Paul McDonald, Exeter, UK and University of Nottingham, UK Founding Editor, Journal of Chinese Cinemas and Julian Ward, University of Hollywood in the New The American Television Edinburgh, UK and Millennium Industry Associate Editor, Journal of Chinese Tino Balio, Emeritus Michael Curtin, Cinemas Professor of Mellichamp Professor The Chinese Cinema Book Communication Arts, of Global Media, provides an essential University of Department of Film guide to the cinemas of the People’s Republic Wisconsin-Madison, and Media Studies, of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese USA University of diaspora, from early cinema to the present day. With California, Santa This book examines Barbara, USA and contributions from leading international scholars, the challenges facing the book is structured around five thematic Jane Shattuc, the contemporary film Professor of Visual and sections: Territories, Trajectories, Historiographies; industry. It explores Early Cinema to 1949; The Forgotten Period: Media Arts, Emerson the merging of the College, USA 1949–80; The New Waves; and Stars, Auteurs and major old-line studios Genres. This important collection addresses issues such as Warner Bros. Two high profile US of film production and exhibition and places and Paramount television scholars Chinese cinema in its national and transnational into entertainment provide a concise contexts. Individual chapters examine major film conglomerates, the impact of globalization, new and accessible introduction to TV production, movements such as the Shanghai cinema of the distribution methods, franchises, and attempts to programming, advertising, and distribution in the 1930s, Fifth Generation film-makers and the Hong reach new markets. Filled with case studies, this United States. This up-to-date study incorporates Kong New Wave, as well as key issues such as comprehensive study is a must-read. recent developments and current issues, and stars and auteurs. The book will be an invaluable includes useful case studies and illustrations. resource for students and scholars, as well as for May 2013 176pp anyone wanting to deepen their understanding of Hardback $85.00 (C$98.00) 978-1-84457-381-3 December 2009 208pp the cinemas of Greater China. Paperback $25.00 (C$29.00) 978-1-84457-380-6 Hardback $90.00 (C$104.00) 978-1-84457-338-7 Paperback $28.95 (C$33.50) 978-1-84457-337-0 June 2011 232pp New Hardback $95.00 (C$109.00) 978-1-84457-345-5 Paperback $28.95 (C$33.50) 978-1-84457-344-8

27 FILM MAKERS

Warhol in Ten Takes BFI WORLD DIRECTORS

Edited by Glyn Davis, University of Baz Luhrmann Lars von Trier Edinburgh, UK and Gary Needham, Pam Cook, Professor Jack Stevenson, Senior Lecturer in Film Emerita in Film, American Critic, and Television, University of Curator and Lecturer Nottingham Trent Southampton, UK University, UK With the international This is the first major success of Breaking A collection of ten book-length study of the the Waves and Dancer essays by leading work of Australian film- in the Dark, Lars von scholars of film, art maker Baz Luhrmann, Trier has established and culture which one of the most exciting himself as one of the provide fresh and and controversial most provocative and unique perspectives personalities working in daring film directors. on the cinema of Andy World Cinema today. In this study, Jack Warhol. Drawing on original research in the Warhol Stevenson explores the archives, this unique volume casts new light on achievements as well as Warhol’s filmmaking career and offers new insights the paradoxes of Lars von Trier. and contexts for a number of the director’s films. May 2010 216pp Hardback $90.00 (C$104.00) 978-1-84457-157-4 Paperback $27.95 (C$31.95) 978-1-84457-158-1 September 2008 232pp September 2013 224pp Hardback $90.00 (C$104.00) 978-0-85170-902-4 Hardback $95.00 (C$109.00) 978-1-84457-402-5 Paperback $27.95 (C$31.95) 978-0-85170-903-1 Paperback $24.95 (C$28.95) 978-1-84457-401-8

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28 TELEVISION studies

No Known Cure Small Screen Aesthetics Reality Television and The Comedy of Chris Morris From Television to the Internet Class

Edited by James Glen Creeber, Senior Edited by Helen Leggott and Jamie Lecturer in Film and Wood, Reader in Sexton, Senior Television Studies, Media and Lecturers in Film and University of Wales, Communication, De Television Studies, Aberystwyth, UK Montfort University, Northumbria UK and Beverley University, UK This new study provides Skeggs, Professor of an introduction to Sociology, Goldsmiths, Chris Morris is one of tv aesthetics and University of London, the most singular and viewership from the UK controversial figures in 1940s to the present recent UK media, at one day, at a time when This is the first book point being described television as a medium about reality television as the ‘most hated is ‘converging’ with the to make class its man in Britain’ for his PC and laptop. central focus. Despite corrosive media satire. With shows such as the popular and media debate about the ‘classed’ notorious spoof Brass Eye, this writer, performer, DJ behavior of reality stars such as Jade Goody and director has not only pushed boundaries of taste and Shilpa Shetty, and the class confrontations and acceptability, but altered perceptions of current August 2013 256pp depicted in shows such as Wife Swap, class affairs broadcasting, moral panics and celebrity Hardback $90.00 (C$104.00) 978-1-84457-410-0 politics have been overlooked in much political Paperback $28.95 (C$33.50) 978-1-84457-409-4 culture. At the same time, cult programs such as Blue and academic discussion of reality television.

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