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47 | FILM AUTHORSHIP

Auteurs and Other Myths

C. Paul Sellors
June 2010

Film Authorship analyses the historical development and theoretical underpinnings of the concepts of film authorship and the auteur, and evaluates these debates in a rigorous and accessible manner.

REVISIONING 007

James Bond and Casino Royale

Christoph Lindner
June 2010

Treating Casino Royale as a case study, Revisioning 007 offers readings of the film and its interrelations with the Bond franchise, the culture industry and recent developments in cinema, society and world politics.

THE CINEMA OF INDIA

Lalitha Gopalan
June 2010

Assembling writings by renowned scholars of Indian cinema, Cinema of India provides a novel framework with which to approach Indian cinema, as well as acknowledging its reception both nationally and globally.

INTERNATIONAL FILM GUIDE 2010 (46TH EDITION)

The Definitive Annual Review of World Cinema (OUT FEB '10)

Ian Haydn Smith (ed.)
February 2010

Widely regarded as the most authoritative and trusted source of information on contemporary world cinema, the International Film Guide offers an overview of trends and changes in global cinema across the last 12 months. 

FILM VIOLENCE

History, Ideology, Genre

James Kendrick
December 2009

A concise and accessible introduction to the role violence has played in the cinema from the silent era to the present.

NEW KOREAN CINEMA

Breaking the Waves

Darcy Paquet
December 2009

New Korean Cinema charts the dramatic transformation of South Korea's film industry from the democratisation movement of the late 1980s to the ascent of a new generation of directors in the 2000s.    

FANTASY CINEMA

Impossible Worlds on Screen

David Butler
October 2009

'This introduction's multifaceted approach provides a model for future scholars and students of this important film genre.'
- Joshua David Bellin, La Roche College    

THE PERSONAL CAMERA

Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film

Laura Rascaroli
October 2009

This book provides novel answers to some of the seminal questions of cinema: on the nature of the cinematographic experience, on authorship and spectatorship, on the filmic commitment to truth and on the state of subjectivity today.