PAUL J. WOOD The Open University, UK
✤✤ Explores the origins, influences, and evolving relationship between the Western canon of art as it has developed since the Renaissance and the art and culture of other societies – including Islamic, Far Eastern, American, and African
Western Art and the Wider World
✤✤ Builds connections between areas of study in modern art which often remain separate ✤✤ Draws together the latest academic debates, offering an original synthesis, opening up questions, and highlighting connections in Western and non-Western art in an accessible manner
✤✤ Written by a well-known art historian and co-editor of the seminal Art in Theory volumes READERSHIP: Undergraduate students for courses in modern art and art history; also as a reference for academics and graduate students
Dec 2013 • 256PP • 978-1-444-33392-3 • Pr • €25.90 / 978-1-444-33391-6 • Cl • €65.90
World Cinema through Global Genres WILLIAM V. COSTANZO Westchester Community College, USA
✤✤ Innovative pedagogical approach that uses genre to teach the more unfamiliar subject of world cinema ✤✤ A cluster-based organization provides a solid framework for students to acquire a sharper understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world ✤✤ A “deep focus” section in each chapter gives students information and insights about important regions of filmmaking (India, China, Japan, and Latin America) that tend to be underrepresented in world cinema classes ✤✤ Case studies allow students to focus on important and accessible individual films that exemplify important traditions and trends
Cultural Studies
Western Art and the Wider World
World Cinema through Global Genres
READERSHIP: Undergraduate students taking courses in world cinema and/or film genre; interested film buffs
Dec 2013 • 400PP • 978-1-118-71292-4 • Pr • €TBA / 978-1-118-71291-7 • Cl • €TBA
A Companion to Fritz Lang EDITED BY JOE MCELHANEY McGill University, Canada
✤✤ A comprehensive assessment of one of cinema’s most influential figures ✤✤ Key scholars share their newest insights, including Tom Gunning, Janet Bergstrom, and Chris Fujiwara ✤✤ Features translated contributions from writers rarely rendered in English such as Nicole Brenez and Paolo Berletto ✤✤ Multinational and multi-perspectival analysis of Lang's oeuvre, including all his key films READERSHIP: Undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in cinema history, film genre, German Expressionism, and auteur theory SERIES: WILEY-BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO FILM DIRECTORS
Oct 2013 • 560PP • 978-0-470-67097-2 • Cl • €172.00
A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard EDITED BY T. JEFFERSON KLINE & TOM CONLEY Boston University, USA; Harvard University, USA
✤✤ Presents a compendium of original essays offering invaluable insights into the life and works of one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema ✤✤ Provides readers with both an in-depth reading of Godard’s major films and a sense of his evolution from the New Wave to his later political periods ✤✤ Brings fresh insights into the great director's biography, including reflections on his personal philosophy, politics, and connections to other critics and filmmakers ✤✤ Explores many of the 80 features Godard made in nearly 60 years, and includes coverage of his recent work in video
READERSHIP: Scholars, graduate, and advanced undergraduate students of cinema, French cinema, and film directors SERIES: WILEY-BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO FILM DIRECTORS
Nov 2013 • 560PP • 978-0-470-65926-7 • Cl • €TBA
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