SCREENING THE EAST

Heimat, Memory and Nostalgia in German Film since 1989

“…contains useful and nuanced readings of the best-known films dealing with themes related to unification, as well as highlighting some equally interesting lesser-known works, in order to provide a rounded picture of German cinema’s engagement with these issues in the past 17 years. I am not aware o f any other publication that covers such a range of material and this in itself makes the book a valuable contribution to the field.”  •  David Clarke, University of Bath
This is an extremely rich study of the representation of east German identity and the former GDR in post-unification cinema. The author clearly has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the films of this period ... Hodgin's book breaks genuinely new ground."  •  Seán Allan, University of Warwick

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BÉLA BALÁZS: EARLY FILM THEORY

Visible Man and The Spirit of Film

"An exemplary book in every way, this translation makes Balázs' revolutionary texts available in English for the first time ... Dating from 1924 and 1930 respectively, The Visible Man and The Spirit of Film had a decisive influence on such major Russian filmmakers as Vsevolod Pudovkin and Sergei Eisenstein, and were among the first studies to examine filmic syntax, grammar, and editorial structure. Including a detailed introduction and numerous illustrations, this volume is a must for anyone serious about film ... Highly recommended."  •  Choice

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AVANT-GARDE TO NEW WAVE

Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties

"This book can fill a significant lacuna in the scarce international research on and publications about the New Wave … it presents a vital contribution to the study of the period."  •  Petra Hanáková, Charles University

"I think this is an excellent text. It deals with a very under-researched subject in an original yet comprehensive manner. It is well-written and well-structured."  •  Elisabetta Girelli, University of St Andrews

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NEW AUSTRIAN FILM

“...This volume is well-balanced and conceived to provide historical, theoretical, and aesthetic frameworks that will draw both the professional and the enthusiast into a contemporary cinema too long overlooked as a distinctive voice on the international stage.”  • Katherine Arens, University of Texas at Austin
“The essays in this volume provide both historical context and critical analysis for the politically and aesthetically significant filmmaking now being done in Austria. This is an exemplary collection, comprehensive in scope and rich in fascinating detail, that will help bring closer attention to a remarkable national cinema.”  • Chris Fujiwara, editor of the International Federation of Film Critics journal, Undercurrents

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EXISTENTIALISM AND CONTEMPORARY CINEMA

A Sartrean Perspective

“[This volume] will provide a useful tool, in particular for students seeking to learn about Sartre and existentialism but also for students exploring the application of philosophy to the understanding of cinema.”  •  Douglas Morrey, University of Warwick

In a scholarly yet accessible style, the contributors exploit the rich interplay between Sartre’s philosophy, plays and novels, and a number of contemporary films including No Country for Old Men, Lost in Translation and The Truman Show, with film-makers including the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke, and Mike Leigh. This volume will be of interest to students who are coming to Sartre’s work for the first time and to those who would like to read films within an existentialist perspective.

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LOCALIZING THE INTERNET

An Anthropological Account

“This is a very strong contribution to media anthropology will quickly stimulate a spate of innovative research on the Internet because it provides conceptual tools that open new avenues of study.  The key idea, “the field of residential affairs,” is very rich, and I particularly like the way Postill connects this new area of anthropology (internet studies) to the classic works of the Manchester School.”  •  Andrew Arno, University of Hawai’i

“…a very interesting case study of the intersection of online activities and offline contexts in relation to political organization and community activism in suburban Malaysia.”  •  Leighton C. Peterson, Miami University

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THE RETURN OF JAZZ

Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change

“…an eminently readable and thoughtful inquiry into the life and works of a man whose career in many ways parallels not just the West German jazz scene, but West German culture as a whole between 1950 and 1980. His work is thus both a valuable introduction to Berendt’s thought as well as an important intervention into current scholarship about the role of global and American culture in the development and contestation of West German identity.”  •  German Politics & Society

"In The Return of Jazz, Andrew Wright Hurley has admirably demonstrated Berendt's influence upon the emerging jazz scene of the early Federal Republic.... It is to Hurley's credit that he raises so many important issues surrounding jazz's development in the second half of the twentieth century."  •  H-German

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NARRATING THE NATION

Representations in History, Media and the Arts

“…an important, indeed significant, collection of essays that examine the historiography of presenting ‘nationhood.’ There is a shared point of view in the historiographical perspectives of the contributors that warrants the collection being considered as a ‘transitional formulation’ in Jaspers’s sense of the term…[The volume] can thus be seen as a watershed book for our time, opening an avenue for a global historiography of ‘in-common historiographical premises,’ even as it insists on discerning the diverse and complex perspectives that constitute any particular study.”  •  H-Net Habsburg
“…Narrating the Nationis highly interesting and has a lot to offer. It is, at the same time, a focused and many-facetted volume, which everyone can draw inspiration from, both theoretically and thematically. Against this background, the book can be warmly recommended.”  • H-Soz-u-Kult

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STARDOM IN POSTWAR FRANCE

“This strong collection, through its insistence on the import of stardom beyond an array of one-dimensional incarnations of a zeitgeist to consider complex embodiments of specific contemporary tensions and dynamics, succeeds in expanding successfully the consideration of star identities in French studies and provides both fascinating case studies and valuable models for future analysis.”  •  French Studies

 “This highly enjoyable and provocative book convincingly demonstrates that celebrities are pivotal sites for the historical analysis of national identity. ...it is through examining icons like Bardot, Hallyday, Poulidor, and de Gaulle, the authors insist, that we gain insight into the social concerns of the day.  Why the post ’68 era failed, in their view, to produce a similar gamut of stars, remains an intriguing point of departure for future research.”  •  H-Franc

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Projections

The Journal for Movies and Mind

WINNER OF THE 2008 AAP/PSP PROSE AWARD FOR BEST NEW JOURNAL IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES!

We are delighted to announce that Stephen Prince will take over editorship of Projections with the 2012 volume.
Published in association with The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image and The Forum for Movies and Mind
Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind  is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that explores the way in which the mind experiences, understands, and interprets the audio-semantic and narrative structures of cinema and other visual media. Recognizing cinema as an art form, the journal aims to integrate established traditions of analyzing media aesthetics with current research into perception, cognition and emotion, according to frameworks supplied by psychology, psychoanalysis, and the cognitive and neurosciences.  http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/proj

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