SHORT CUTS (Wallflower Press) Prison Movies
Film and the Natural Environment
Cinema Behind Bars
Kevin Kehrwald
Elements and Atmospheres
Adam O'Brien
The relationship between film and the natural world is a long and complex one, not reducible to issues such as climate change and pollution. Adam O'Brien argues that the nonhuman world can be understood not just as a theme but as a creative resource available to all filmmakers. He invites readers to consider some of the particular strengths and weaknesses of cinema as communicator of environmental phenomena, and collates ideas and passages from a range of critics and theorists who have contributed to our understanding of moving images and the natural world. $22.00 / £19.00 paper 978-0-231-18265-2
Prison Movies traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent era to the present. Kevin Kehrwald suggests that portrayals of men and women behind bars have thrived because they deal with such fundamental human themes as freedom, individuality, power, justice, and mercy. Kehrwald examines films including The Big House (1930), I Want to Live! (1958), The Defiant Ones (1958), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Midnight Express (1978), Escape from Alcatraz (1979), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and Starred Up (2013). $22.00 / £19.00 paper 978-0-231-18115-0 $65.00 / £54.95 cloth 978-0-231-18114-3 2017 144 pages
2017 144 pages
Postmodernism and Film
The Road Movie
In Search of Meaning
Rethinking Hollywood’s Aesthestics
Neil Archer
Catherine Constable
From its most familiar origins in Hollywood, the road movie has become a global film practice, whether as a vehicle for exploring the relationship between various national contexts or as a form of individual filmmaking expression. Beginning with Depression-era Hollywood and New Hollywood late 1960s and then considering its wider effect on world cinemas, Neil Archer maps the development and adaptability of an enduring genre, studying iconic films along the way. $22.00 / £17.95 paper 978-0-231-17647-7 2016 144 pages
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This volume focuses on postmodern film aesthetics and contemporary challenges to the aesthetic paradigms dominating analyses of Hollywood cinema. It explores conceptions of the classical, modernist, post-classical/new Hollywood, and their construction as linear history of style in which postmodernism forms a debatable final act. This history is challenged by using Jean-François Lyotard’s nonlinear conception of postmodernism in order to view postmodern aesthetics as a paradigm that can occur across the history of Hollywood. $22.00 / £17.95 paper 978-0-231-17455-8 2015 144 pages 12 illus.
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