Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series 2 Robin Wood on the Horror Film Collected Essays and Reviews Edited by Barry Keith Grant With a preface by Richard Lippe Robin Wood—one of the foremost critics of cine- ma—has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror fi lm in the last half-century. Wood’s interest in horror spanned his entire career and was a form of popular cinema to which he devoted un- wavering attention. Robin Wood on the Horror Film: Collected Essays and Reviews compiles over fi fty years of his groundbreaking critiques. In September 1979, Wood and Richard Lippe pro- grammed an extensive series of horror fi lms for the Toronto International Film Festival and edited a com- panion piece: The American Nightmare: Essays on the Horror Film — the fi rst serious collection of critical writing on the horror genre.Robin Wood on the Horror Film now contains all of Wood’s writings from The American Nightmare and nearly everything else he wrote over the years on horror—published in a range of journals and maga- zines—gathered together for the fi rst time. It begins with the fi rst essay Wood ever published, “Psychoanalysis of Psycho,” which appeared in 1960 and already anticipated many of the ideas explored later in his touchstone book, Hitchcock’s Films. The volume ends, fi ttingly, with, “What Lies Beneath?,” written almost fi ve decades later, an essay in which Wood refl ects on the state of the horror fi lm and criticism since the genre’s renaissance in the 1970s. Wood’s prose is elo- quent, lucid, and convincing as he brings together his parallel interests in genre, authorship, and ideology. Deftly combining Marxist, Freudian, and feminist theory, Wood’s prolonged attention to classic and contemporary horror fi lms explains much about the genre’s meanings and cultural functions. Robin Wood on the Horror Film will be an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in horror, science fi ction, and fi lm genre. 2018 , 6x9 , 336 pages, 62 black-and-white images ISBN 978-0-8143-4523-8, $ 34.99 Paperback ISBN 978-0-8143-4525-2, $82.99 Printed Paper Cased, ebook Film History and Filmmakers Robin Wood was a founding editor of CineAction! and author of numerous infl uential works, including new editions published by Wayne State University Press. He was professor emeritus at York University, Toronto, and the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Barry Keith Grant is professor emeritus of fi lm studies and popular culture at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. The author or editor of more than two dozen books, Grant’s work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. An Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he is editor of Wayne State University Press’s Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series. 3 Cinematic Cryptonymies e Absent Body in Postwar Film Ofer Eliaz Following the Second World War, the world had to confront the unmournable specters of those who had been erased socially and historically. Cinematic Cryptonymies: The Absent Body in Post- war Film explores how cinema addressed these missing bodies through an in-depth analysis of key fi lmmakers from the imme- diate postwar moment through the present. Ofer Eliaz provides a cinematic history as well as a theoretical framework rooted in psychoanalysis that allows the reader to see and understand the absence and erasure of bodies in fi lm as a response to historical trauma. 2018 , 6x9 , 224 pages, 14 black-and-white images ISBN 978-0-8143-4562-7 , $ 31.99 Paperback ISBN 978-0-8143-4561-0 , $85. 99 Printed Paper Cased , ebook Film History Psychology Ofer Eliaz is assistant professor of fi lm studies at Ohio University. 1968 and Global Cinema Edited by Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi 1968 and Global Cinema addresses a notable gap in fi lm studies. The essays in this volume, edited by Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi, cover a breadth of cinematic movements that were part of the era’s radical politics and independence movements. Focusing on history, aesthetics, and politics, each contribution illuminates conventional understandings of the relationship of cinema to the events of 1968, or “the long Sixties.” The volume is ideal for graduate and undergraduate courses on the long sixties, political cinema, 1968, and new waves in art history, cultural studies, and fi lm and media studies. 2017 , 6x9 , 304 pages, 40 illustrations ISBN 978-0-8143-4293-0 , $ 31.99 Paperback ISBN 978-0-8143-4542-9, $85.99 Printed Paper Cased, ebook Film History World Cinema Contributors: Robert Stam, Lily Saint, Rocco Giansante, Peter Hames, Rita De Grandis, Morgan Adamson, David Desser, Graeme Stout, Mauro Resmini, Man-tat Terence Leung, Allyson Nadia Field, Sarah Hamblin, J.M. Tyree, Victor Fan, Laurence Coderre, Pablo La Parra-Perez, Paula Rabinowitz, Sara Saljoughi, Christina Gerhardt 4 Beyond Method Stella Adler and the Male Actor Scott Balcerzak Scott Balcerzak focuses on Adler’s teachings and how she chal- lenged Strasberg’s psychological focus on the actor’s “self” by promoting an empathetic and socially engaged approach to per- formance. Employing archived studio transcripts and recordings, Balcerzak examines Adler’s lessons in technique, characterization, and script analysis as they refl ect the background of the teacher. 2018 , 6x9 , 280 pages, 19 black-and-white images ISBN 978-0-8143-4291-6 , $ 27.99 Paperback ISBN 978-0-8143-4489-7 , $ 84.99 Printed Paper Cased, ebook Filmmakers Gender Studies Popular Culture Scott Balcerzak is associate professor of fi lm and media in the department of English at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity (Wayne State University Press, 2013). He is also the co-editor of Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure, and Digital Culture, vols. 1 and 2. e Films of Jess Franco Edited by Antonio Lázaro-Reboll and Ian Olney The Films of Jess Franco looks at the work of Jesús “Jess” Franco (1930–2013), one of the most prolifi c and madly inventive fi lmmakers in the history of cinema. He is best known as the director of jazzy, erotically charged horror movies featuring mad scientists, lesbian vampires, and women in prison, but he also dabbled in a multitude of genres from comedy to science fi ction to pornography. Although he built his career in the ghetto of low-budget exploitation cinema, he managed to create a body of work that is deeply personal, frequently political, and surprisingly poetic. Editors Antonio Lázaro-Reboll and Ian Olney have assembled a team of scholars to examine Franco’s offbeat fi lms, which command an international cult following and have developed a more mainstream audience in recent years. 2017 , 6x9 , 240 pages, 30 black-and-white images ISBN 978-0-8143-4316-6 , $ 29.99 Paperback ISBN 978-0-8143-4493-4, $84.99 Printed Paper Cased, ebook Filmmakers World Cinema Contributors: Alberto Brodesco, Will Dodson, Finley Freibert, Xavier Mendik, Tatjana Pavlovic, Vicente Rodríguez Ortega, Rubén Romero Santos, Nicholas G. Schlegel, Aurore Spiers, Glenn Ward, Andy Willis, Antonio Lázaro-Reboll, Ian Olney 5 e Berlin School and Its Global Contexts A Transnational Art Cinema Edited by Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher Germany’s most important fi lmmaking movement in conver- sation with its peers across the globe. “Bringing together some of the most infl uential scholars in German fi lm studies, this anthology provides an outstanding overview of the numerous intersections between the work of the Berlin School and broader currents in world cinema.” —Paul Cooke, Centenary Chair in World Cinemas at the University of Leeds 2018 , 6x9 , 364 pages, 53 black-and-white images ISBN 978-0-8143-4200-8 , $ 361.99 Paperback ISBN 978-0-814-34490-3 , $84 .99 Printed Paper Cased, ebook Film Theory & Criticism World Cinema Contributors: Lisa Haegele, Robert Dassanowsky, William Fech, Alice Bardan, Ira Jaffe, Inga Pollmann, Roger Cook, Michael Sicinski, Lutz Koepnick, Chris Homewood, Brad Prager, Gerd Gemünden, Roland Végso, Marco Abel, Jaimey Fisher, Hester Baer Transforming Harry e Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age Edited by John Alberti and P. Andrew Miller Focuses on the critical and theoretical implications of adapt- ing the Harry Potter novels to fi lms and media. “This collection presents a unique look at the Harry Potter phe- nomenon that expands on the dialogue about the fi lm adapta- tion of the novels. The contributors offer very timely discussions on the further reception and transformation of the novels beyond the large screen and to the smaller screens of computers and smartphones.” —Cristina Santos, author of Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires and Virgins 2017 , 6x9 , 212 pages, 15 black-and-white images ISBN 978-0-8143-3967-1 , $27 .99 Paperback ISBN 978-0-8143-4491-0 , $84 .99 Printed Paper Cased, ebook Film Theory Media Studies Popular Culture Contributors: Andrew Howe, Cassandra Bausman, Vera Cuntz-Leng, Maria Dicieanu, Katharine McCain, Michelle Markey Butler, Liza Potts, Kelly Turner, Emily Dallaire 6 Comic Venus Women and Comedy in American Silent Film Kristen Anderson Wagner Examines the social and historical signifi cance of women’s contributions to American silent fi lm comedy. “Comic Venus documents the work of an astonishing range of silent era comediennes, proving how central women were to early fi lm comedy and how central fi lm comedy was to rapidly evolving gender norms in the early twentieth century. An essen- tial re-reading of silent comedy, long overdue.”—Shelley Stamp, author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood and Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon 2017 , 6x9 , 288 pages, 54 illustrations ISBN 978-0-8143-4102-5 , $ 36.99 Paperback, ISBN, 9780814345290 , $84.99 Printed Paper Cased, ebook Film History Humor Studies Women’s Studies Kristen Anderson Wagner has written extensively on silent comedy.