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 Jenni Burnell, Commissioning Editor | [email protected] Contact Jenni to discuss projects and proposals Film Makers Sophie Contento, Senior Production Editor | [email protected] Television Studies Kara Kikel, Marketing Manager | [email protected] *Prices are correct at the time of print 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. 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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. 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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