Traces the circulation of Hollywood films in North Africa and the Middle East from the early twentieth century to the present.
Drawing on a broad range of primary sources, from trade and government publications to interviews, Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East traces the circulation of Hollywood films across the region from the early twentieth century to the...(Read More)
Writ on Water
(April 2022)
The Sources and Reach of Film Imagination Charles Warren - Author
A powerful and original statement on the nature of film and the intimate relation of “film imagination” to our lives as human beings in the world.
This eloquent book draws on the author's responses to a wide range of extraordinary films—"long takes" on Altman's Nashville, Godard's Hail Mary, Makavejev's WR: Mysteries of the Organism, and von Sternberg's Blon...(Read More)
The Cinematographer's Voice
(March 2022)
Insights into the World of Visual Storytelling Lindsay Coleman - Editor Roberto Schaefer - Editor
A unique exploration of contemporary filmmaking from cinema’s ultimate insiders.
The Cinematographer's Voice is a unique exploration of contemporary filmmaking and cinematography. The distillation of more than one-hundred interviews with cinematographers from around the world, and the product of a decade's worth of scholarship, the book is not only a collection of interviews...(Read More)
Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai’i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.
The Hard Sell of Paradise examines how mid-twentieth-century Hollywood, negotiating the rhetoric of the tourism industry, offered a complex and contradictory vision of "Hawai'i" for its audiences. From the classic studio system and elite touris...(Read More)
The Holiday in His Eye
(October 2021)
Stanley Cavell's Vision of Film and Philosophy William Rothman - Author
Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.
From The World Viewed to Cities of Words, writing about movies was strand over strand with Stanley Cavell's philosophical work. Cavell was one of the first philosop...(Read More)
Examines the place of book-to-film adaptations by one of Italy's most famous postwar film directors.
Since the beginning, much of Italian cinema has been sustained by transforming literature into moving images. This tradition of literary adaptation continues today, challenging artistic form and practice by pressuring the boundaries that traditionally separate film from its sister a...(Read More)
