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Comics and Pop Culture

Adaptation from Panel to Frame EDITED BY BARRY KEITH GRANT & SCOTT HENDERSON

It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the blockbuster success of recent superhero movies. Examining current debates, this engaging collection explores the multimedia intersections of comics, film, television, and popular culture over the last century.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS January 2020 50 b&w photos 344pp 9781477319390 £26.99 PB now £18.89

Glimpses of Freedom

Independent Cinema in Southeast Asia EDITED BY MAY ADADOL INGAWANIJ & BENJAMIN MCKAY

Glimpses of Freedom is the outcome of a project collaboratively conceived by a new generation of scholars of cinema in Southeast Asia, inspired by the growing domestic and international visibility of notable films and videos from the region. Contributors describe and analyze the emerging field of Southeast Asian cinema, which they know firsthand and have helped create and foster.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2012 260pp 9780877277552 £18.99 PB now £13.29

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Expanded Cinema

Fiftieth Anniversary Edition GENE YOUNGBLOOD INTRODUCTION BY R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Published in 1970, Expanded Cinema was the first book to capture the explosion of video, computers, and holography as filmmaking technologies. The new Introduction of the 50th anniversary edition brings it into the 21st century by exploring the social, cultural, and political implications of today’s expanded cinema technologies.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Meaning Systems March 2020 60 color illus., 284 b&w illus. 464pp 9780823287413 £26.99 PB now £18.89

How to Watch Television, Second Edition EDITED BY ETHAN THOMPSON & JASON MITTELL

Forty original essays from today’s leading scholars on television culture, who write about the programs they care (and think) the most about. Each essay focuses on a single television show, demonstrating one way to read the program and, through it, our media culture.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: User’s Guides to Popular Culture April 2020 71 hts 432pp 9781479898817 £23.99 PB now £16.79

All New, All Different?

Breaking the Frames

An eye-opening exploration of the complex relationship between racial attitudes and representation and the evolution of the superhero in American popular culture, from Superman’s debut in 1938, to depictions of both Asian villains and nonwhite sidekicks, as well as the Civil Rights era and contemporary reinventions.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series December 2019 75 b&w photos 392pp 9781477318973 £26.99 PB now £18.89

Breaking the Frames surveys the current state of comics scholarship, interrogating its dominant schools, questioning their mutual estrangement, and challenging their propensity to champion the comics they study. Marc Singer advocates for greater disciplinary diversity and methodological rigor in comics studies, making the case for a field that can embrace more critical and oppositional perspectives.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS January 2019 312pp 9781477317105 £26.99 PB now £18.89

A History of Race and the American Superhero ALLAN W. AUSTIN & PATRICK L. HAMILTON

Animated Personalities

Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts DAVID MCGOWAN

In Animated Personalities, McGowan asserts that iconic American theatrical short cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse and Betty Boop should be legitimately regarded as stars, not only because they have enjoyed long careers, but also because their star personas have been created and marketed in ways also used for cinematic celebrities.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS March 2019 326pp 9781477317440 £26.99 PB now £18.89

Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies MARC SINGER

Camming

Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry ANGELA JONES

The erotic webcam industry, also known as “camming,” is a thriving global business. Drawing on in-depth interviews, survey data, web analytics, and more, Angela Jones takes readers inside this multi-billion dollar industry, revealing how its workers experience intimacy, community, empowerment— and, as she compellingly argues, pleasure.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2020 15 b&w illus. 344pp 9781479874873 £23.99 PB now £16.79

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Clocking Out

The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema KAREN PINKUS

Challenges readers to think about labor, cinema, and machines as they are intertwined in complex ways in Italian cinema of the early ’60s.

Drawing on critical theory and archival research, this book asks what kinds of fractures we might exploit for living otherwise, for resisting traditional narratives, and for anticapitalism.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS April 2020 152pp 9781517908553 £17.99 PB now £12.59

Discussing Disney EDITED BY AMY M. DAVIS

Discussing Disney (grown out of a conference of the same name) is a collection of 12 papers on topics which, though diverse in scope, all relate back to one another through their connection to Disney. It seeks to continue the evolution of Disney Studies as an academic field that has now evolved beyond a discourse that merely, to quote Eric Smoodin (1994), “...[sought} to complicate the notions and uses of Disney discourse that currently make their way to the general public through the popular media”.

JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING December 2019 9780861967193 £24.99 PB now £17.49

Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts

Film as Religion, Second Edition

God on the Big Screen

EDITED BY LEVI S. GIBBS

The first edition of Film as Religion was one of the first texts to develop a framework for the analysis of the religious function of films for audiences. Thoroughly updating his examples, Lyden examines a range of film genres and individual films, from The Godfather to The Hunger Games to Frozen, to show how film can function religiously.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2019 320pp 9781479811991 £21.99 PB now £15.39

In this title Lindvall examines how films have reflected, and sometimes sought to prescribe, ideas about how one ought to pray. He surveys the landscape of those films that employ prayer in their narratives, beginning with the silent era and moving through the years to the sci-fi and fantasy blockbusters of today.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS September 2019 25 b&w illus. 384pp 9781479892617 £27.99 PB now £19.59

Examines the key role of the individual in the development of traditional Chinese performing arts such as music and dance. The contributors to this volume explore the ways in which performances and recordings serve as discursive spaces where individuals engage with and redefine larger traditions and themselves.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology February 2020 7 b&w illus., 1 map, 1 table 188pp 9780253045836 £23.99 PB now £16.79

Fidel between the Lines

Paranoia and Ambivalence in Late Socialist Cuban Cinema LAURA-ZOË HUMPHREYS

Traces the changing dynamics of criticism and censorship in latesocialist Cuba through a focus on cinema. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, textual analysis, and archival research, Humphreys shows how Cuban filmmakers have historically turned to allegory to communicate an ambivalent relationship to the Revolution.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2019 22 illus. 304pp 9781478006244 £21.99 PB now £15.39

Myths, Morals, and Rituals JOHN C. LYDEN

Furious Feminisms

Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road ALEXIS L. BOYLAN, ANNA MAE DUANE, MICHAEL GILL & BARBARA GURR

While both fans and foes point to Mad Max: Fury Road’s feminist credentials, Furious Feminisms asks: is there really anything feminist or radical happening on the screen? The four authors ask what is possible, desirable, or damaging in theorizing feminism in the contested landscape of the twenty-first century.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS Series: Forerunners: Ideas First January 2020 82pp 9781517909192 £8.00 PB now £5.60

A History of Hollywood Prayer from the Silent Era to Today TERRY LINDVALL

Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement

Reframing History in Comics JORGE SANTOS

The history of America’s civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold again and again, relegating many key figures and turning points to the margins. In this title Santos posits that graphic novels present an opportunity to push against the consensus and create a more complete history.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series June 2019 256pp 9781477318270 £22.99 PB now £16.09

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Hollywood in San Francisco

Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham

In this thirty-year history of feature filmmaking in San Francisco, Gleich tracks a sea change in Hollywood production practices, as location shooting overtook studio-based filming as the dominant production method by the early 1970s. He shows how this transformation intersected with a precipitous decline in public perceptions of the American city.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS December 2018 66 b&w photos 360pp 9781477317556 £26.99 PB now £18.89

Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham were the two most acclaimed and commercially successful African American dancers of their era and among the first black women to enjoy international screen careers. Durkin investigates Baker and Dunham’s films and writings to shed new light on their legacies as transatlantic artists and civil rights figures.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS August 2019 272pp 9780252084454 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Household Horror

Locked Out

Take a tour of the house where a microwave killed a gremlin, a typewriter made Jack a dull boy, a sewing machine fashioned Carrie’s prom dress, and houseplants might kill you while you sleep. Marc Olivier highlights the wonder, fear, and terrifying dimension of objects in horror cinema.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: The Year’s Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory February 2020 44 b&w illus. 350pp 9780253046567 £31.00 PB now £21.70

“This content is not available in your country.” At some point, most media consumers around the world have run into a message like this. Drawing on extensive research of media-industry strategies, consumer and retailer practices, and media regulation, Locked Out explores regional lockout’s consequences for media around the globe.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Critical Cultural Communication August 2019 9 b&w illus. 240pp 9781479873876 £22.99 PB now £16.09

Location Shooting and the Aesthetics of Urban Decline JOSHUA GLEICH

Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects MARC OLIVIER

Dances in Literature and Cinema HANNAH DURKIN

Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture EVAN ELKINS

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Lucrecia Martel GERD GEMÜNDEN

Films like Zama have made Lucrecia Martel a fixture on festival marquees and critic’s best lists. Her focus on the senses challenge film’s usual emphasis on what a viewer sees. Gemünden offers a career-spanning analysis of a filmmaker dedicated to revealing the ephemeral, fortuitous, and endless variety of human experience.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Series: Contemporary Film Directors October 2019 206pp 9780252084669 £16.99 PB now £11.89

Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925 RICHARD ABEL

Motor City Movies, 1916–1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population and complex demographics. Richard Abel investigates the role of local Detroit organizations in producing, distributing, exhibiting, and publicizing films in an effort to make moviegoing part of everyday life.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2020 63 b&w illus. 308pp 9780253046468 £31.00 PB now £21.70

National Pastimes Cinema, Sports, and Nation KATHARINA BONZEL

Sports have long fascinated filmmakers from Hollywood and beyond, from Bend It Like Beckham to Chariots of Fire to Rocky. Katharina Bonzel unravels the delicate matrix of national identity, sports, and emotion through the lens of popular sports films in comparative national contexts.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: Sports, Media, and Society January 2020 21 photos 252pp 9781496215529 £41.00 HB now £28.70

Netflix Nations

The Geography of Digital Distribution RAMON LOBATO

Combining media industry analysis with cultural theory, Ramon Lobato explores the political and policy tensions at the heart of the digital distribution revolution, tracing their longer history through our evolving understanding of media globalization.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Critical Cultural Communication January 2019 20 b&w illus. 240pp 9781479804948 £19.99 PB now £13.99

Noir Affect EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER BREU & ELIZABETH A. HATMAKER, AFTERWORD BY PAULA RABINOWITZ

Featuring an afterword by celebrated noir scholar, Paula Rabinowitz, and essays by an array of leading scholars, Noir Affect proposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect. The essays trace noir’s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts and in a range of different media.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2020 304pp 9780823287666 £26.99 PB now £18.89

On Story—The Golden Ages of Television AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL EDITED BY MAYA PEREZ & BARBARA MORGAN FOREWORD BY NOAH HAWLEY

This book explores the transformation of television’s narrative content over the past several decades through interviews with some of TV’s best creators and writers. It shares their insights, behind-the-scenes looks at the creative process, production tales, responses to audiences’ reactions, and observations on how both TV narratives and the industry have changed.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS October 2018 208pp 9781477316948 £14.99 PB now £10.49

Our Family Album

Essays-Script- Annotations- Images CHARLES MUSSER

This literary counterpart to Charles Musser and Maria Threese Serana’s documentary Our Family Album includes brief essays by those involved in its production as well as an annotated script with selected images from the film. The book, like the documentary, reflects on the construction, nature and meaning of family photography.

JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING October 2019 9780861967414 £41.00 HB now £28.70

Paris in the Dark

Going to the Movies in the City of Light, 1930–1950 ERIC SMOODIN

Eric Smoodin takes readers on a journey through the streets, cinemas, and theaters of Paris to sketch a comprehensive picture of French film culture during the 1930s and 1940s.

Drawing on a wealth of journalistic sources, Smoodin recounts the ways films moved through the city, the favored stars, and what it was like to go to the movies in a city with hundreds of cinemas.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2020 30 illus. 224pp 9781478006923 £20.99 PB now £14.69

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Postcinematic Vision

The Coevolution of Moving-Image Media and the Spectator ROGER F. COOK

Studies how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception.

Suggests film as a stage in the coevolution of human consciousness and visual technology. Offers a fresh perspective on the history of film while providing new insights into the divide between cinematic and digital media.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS Series: Posthumanities March 2020 240pp 9781517907679 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Queer Timing

The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema SUSAN POTTER

In Queer Timing, Susan Potter offers a counter-history that reorients accepted views of lesbian representation and spectatorship in early cinema. The result is a daring revision of feminist and queer perspectives that foregrounds the centrality of women’s same-sex desire to cinematic discourses of both homoand heterosexuality.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Series: Women & Film History International June 2019 238pp 9780252084249 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Reattachment Theory Queer Cinema of Remarriage LEE WALLACE

Through innovative readings of gay and lesbian films, Lee Wallace offers a provocative argument that queer experiments in domesticity have profoundly reshaped heterosexual marriage to such an extent that now all marriage is gay marriage.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: a Camera Obscura book May 2020 61 illus. 264pp 9781478008101 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Scenarios III

Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; Cobra Verde WERNER HERZOG TRANSLATED BY KRISHNA WINSTON

Continuing a series that Publishers Weekly pronounced “compulsively readable . . . equal parts challenging and satisfying, infuriating and enlightening,” Scenarios III presents, for the first time in English, the shapeshifting scripts for four of Werner Herzog’s early films: Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; and Cobra Verde.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS November 2019 4 b&w illus. 216pp 9781517907815 £17.99 PB now £12.59

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Sex, Politics, and Comedy

The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch RICHARD W. MCCORMICK

Ernst Lubitsch (1982–1947) was one of the most successful and influential German filmmakers in American film comedy. In this volume, Rick McCormick argues for a more transnational view of Lubitsch’s career and films with respect to nationality, ethnicity, migration, class, sexuality, and gender.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: German Jewish Cultures June 2020 30 b&w illus. 372pp 9780253048332 £79.00 HB now £55.30

Silent Serial Sensations

The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema BARBARA TEPA LUPACK

The first book-length study of pioneering and prolific filmmakers Ted and Leo Wharton, Silent Serial Sensations offers a fascinating account of the dynamic early film industry.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2020 59 b&w halftones, 1 map 408pp 9781501748189 £17.99 PB now £12.59

Spanish Cinema against Itself

Cosmopolitanism, Experimentation, Militancy STEVEN MARSH

Spanish Cinema Against Itself maps the evolution of Spanish surrealist and politically committed cinematic traditions from their origins in the 1930s—with the work of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, experimentalist José Val de Omar, and militant documentary filmmaker Carlos Velo— through to the contemporary period.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: New Directions in National Cinemas February 2020 75 b&w illus. 270pp 9780253046314 £24.99 PB now £17.49

Subject to Reality

Women and Documentary Film SHILYH WARREN

Warren brings to light the works of two key periods of women’s filmmaking which have been neglected. Filled with challenging insights and new close readings, this book sheds light on a profound and unexamined history of feminist documentaries while revealing their influence on the filmmakers of today.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Series: Women & Film History International May 2019 200pp 9780252084348 £18.99 PB now £13.29

Television Rewired

The Art of Pere Joan

In 1990, American television experienced a seismic shift when Twin Peaks premiered, eschewing formulaic plots and clear lines between heroes and villains. Television Rewired explores—among others—this gamechanging series which inspired a generation of show creators to experiment artistically, transforming the small screen in ways that endure to this day.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS July 2019 60 b&w photos 320pp 9781477318959 £26.99 PB now £18.89

The first monograph in English on a comics artist from the Spain, The Art of Pere Joan takes a topographical approach to reading comics, applying theories of cultural and urban geography to Pere Joan’s treament of space and landscape in his singular body of work.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS May 2019 328pp 9781477318126 £40.00 HB now £28.00

The Rise of the Auteur Series MARTHA P. NOCHIMSON

The American Midwest in Film and Literature Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism ADAM R. OCHONICKY

Adam R. Ochonicky gives a critical overview of the Midwest’s symbolic and often contradictory meanings in film and literature. Starting with the frontier writings of Frederick Jackson Turner, this book examines Midwestern film and literary texts stretching from the late-19th century through the beginning of the 21st century.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2020 23 b&w illus. 272pp 9780253045973 £24.99 PB now £17.49

Space, Landscape, and Comics Form BENJAMIN FRASER

The Film Photonovel

A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations JAN BAETENS

Disregarded by archivists and scholars despite its cultural impact on post– World War II Europe, the film photonovel represents a unique crossroads. Illuminating a longoverlooked medium with a significant social impact, Baetens studies the history of the film photonovel as a hybrid of film novelizations, drawn novels, and nonfilm photonovels.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS April 2019 198pp 9781477318225 £32.00 HB now £22.40

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The Hollywood Jim Crow

The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry MARYANN ERIGHA

Erigha exposes the key elements at work in maintaining Hollywood’s racial hierarchy, namely the relationship between genre and race, the ghettoization of Black directors to black films, and how Blackness is perceived by the Hollywood producers and studios who decide what gets made and who gets to make it.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2019 17 b&w illus. 240pp 9781479847877 £19.99 PB now £13.99

The Institutionalization of Educational Cinema North America and Europe in the 1910s and 1920s EDITED BY MARINA DAHLQUIST & JOEL FRYKHOLM

Using the concept of institutionalization as a heuristic for generating new approaches to the history of educational cinema, this title studies the co-evolving discourses, cultural practices, technical standards, and institutional frameworks that transformed educational cinema from a convincing idea into an enduring genre.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2020 22 b&w illus., 3 tables 272pp 9780253045201 £31.00 PB now £21.70

The Process Genre

Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor SALOMÉ AGUILERA SKVIRSKY

Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky theorizes the process genre—filmic genre characterized by its representation of chronologically ordered steps in which some form of labor results in a finished product.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2020 224 illus., incl. 60 in color 336pp 9781478006442 £22.99 PB now £16.09

The Television Code Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry DEBORAH L. JARAMILLO

Using archival documents from the Federal Communications Commission, NBC, the NAB, and a television reformer, Senator William Benton, this book explores the run-up to the adoption of the 1952 Television Code from the perspectives of the government, TV viewers, local broadcasters, national networks, and the industry’s trade association.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS September 2018 272pp 9781477317013 £22.99 PB now £16.09

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Todd Solondz JULIAN MURPHET

Films like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness established Todd Solondz as independent cinema’s premier satirist. Murphet appraises the career of the controversial, if increasingly ignored, indie film auteur.

Through close readings and a discussion with the director, Murphet dissects how Solondz’s themes and techniques serve stories laden with hot-button topics.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Series: Contemporary Film Directors August 2019 192pp 9780252084591 £16.99 PB now £11.89

Unruly Cinema

History, Politics, and Bollywood RINI BATTACHARYA MEHTA

Looks at the complex series of events that allowed the entire Indian film industry to defy attempts to control, reform, and refine it in the twentieth century and beyond. Traces Indian cinema’s complicated history from the 1930s triumph over Hollywood imports to the global neoliberal aesthetic that encouraged the emergence of Bollywood.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS June 2020 232pp 9780252084997 £18.99 PB now £13.29

Unsettled Scores

Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler SALLY BICK

Bick’s dual study of Copland and Eisler pairs interpretations of their writings on film composing with a close examination of their first Hollywood projects. Unsettled Scores illuminates the different ways the composers treated a film score as means of expressing their political ideas on society, capitalism, and the human condition.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Series: Music in American Life December 2019 258pp 9780252084645 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Urban Horror

Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility ERIN Y. HUANG

Drawing on Marxist phenomenology, geography, and aesthetics and film from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan made between the 1990s and the present, Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal postsocialist China.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Sinotheory February 2020 39 illus. 288pp 9781478008095 £20.99 PB now £14.69

Voicing the Cinema

Film Music and the Integrated Soundtrack EDITED BY JAMES BUHLER & HANNAH LEWIS

Essays from many of film music’s most influential scholars explore issues around vococentrism, the voice in cinema, and music’s role in the integrated soundtrack. Explores historical approaches to technology, the singing voice in diverse repertories, and the background music and the state of the soundtrack at the end of vococentrism.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS March 2020 320pp 9780252084867 £22.99 PB now £16.09

Where Histories Reside India as Filmed Space PRIYA JAIKUMAR

Priya Jaikumar examines seven decades of films shot on location in India to show how attending to filmed space reveals alternative timelines and histories of cinema as well as the myriad ways cinema constructs India as a place.

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2019 80 illus. 416pp 9781478004752 £23.99 PB now £16.79

Werner Herzog JOSHUA LUND

Offers the first systematic interpretation of Werner Herzog’s Americas-themed works, illuminating the director’s career as a political filmmaker. Draws on materialist and postcolonial approaches to argue that Herzog’s American work confronts us with the circulation, distribution, accumulation, application, and negotiation of power that resides, quietly, at the center of his films.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Series: Contemporary Film Directors July 2020 264pp 9780252085048 £16.99 PB now £11.89

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