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Rising Sun, Divided Land
Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 27.99With Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Clint Eastwood made a unique contribution to film history, being the first director to make two films about the same event. Eastwood's films examine the battle over Iwo Jima from two nations' perspectives, in two languages, and embody a passionate view on conflict, enemies, and heroes.... more...
Film Dialogue
Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 27.99Film Dialogue is the first anthology in film studies devoted to the topic of language in cinema, bringing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss the aesthetic, narrative, and ideological dimensions of film speech that have largely gone unappreciated and unheard. Consisting of thirteen essays divided into three sections: genre, auteur theory,... more...
The Kid Stays in the Picture
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 13.99Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood storytelling. With black-and-white photographs from the author's archive and a new introduction... more...
Bas Jan Ader
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 27.50On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled In Search of the Miraculous . The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again. ... more...
Making Short Films
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; Not AvailableMaking movies is the most exciting way to earn a living and it is not surprising that media and film studies remain the most popular courses at colleges across the western world. A short film provides an opportunity for elliptical, poetic, condensed story telling. Shorts can take risks rarely seen in features. It is the arena where a strong voice or... more...
Double-Takes
University of Ottawa Press 2013; US$ 39.95The widest-ranging exploration to date of the interaction between English Canadian literature and film more...
Adapting Nineteenth-Century France
University of Wales Press 2013; US$ 150.00This book focuses on adaptations in and of nineteenth-century France, assessing the reworking of Emile Zola in radio, Honoré de Balzac in silent cinema, Gustave Flaubert in contemporary fiction, Victor Hugo in musical theatre, Guy de Maupassant in television and Jules Verne in sound film. more...
Rainer on Film
Santa Monica Press 2013; US$ 19.99From American Beauty (overrated) to The Night of the Hunter (masterpiece), this collection of Peter Rainer?s film criticism spans the course of his illustrious 30-year career, which dates back to the early 1980s. It is drawn from a wide range of publications, including the Christian Science Monitor , the Los Angeles Herald Examiner , Los Angeles... more...
Cinema and the Republic
University of Wales Press 2013; US$ 135.00A thought-provoking study of what contemporary French cinema has to say about immigration and social cohesion. more...
On the Sleeve of the Visual
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 28.99An investigation of race and the ontology of the visual more...









