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NEW SERIES DEVOTED TO THE CLOSE ANALYSIS OF FILM AND TELEVISION CLOSE-UP is an innovative and accessible new annual series devoted to the close analysis of film and television. Each volume will contain three extended individual studies linked by a concern to explore in detail the decisions that go into the making of films or television programmes. These choices – from setting and performance to camera position and movement, from lighting and colour to editing and the multiple possibilities of sound – create a film’s form and determine its meanings. It is this rich texture that engages us as spectators but has often been overlooked in film theory and criticism. Each study in the series will root its argument in particular choices made by filmmakers, providing sustained analysis of sequences and moments and engaging with wider issues in the field from this firm basis in textual detail. Wallflower Press are pleased to announce the publication of the first title in the series: CLOSE-UP #1 Filmmakers' Choices / The Pop Song in Film / Reading Buffy Edited by John Gibbs and Douglas Pye FILMMAKERS’ CHOICES John Gibbs Designed for the launch of the Close-Up series, Filmmakers’ Choices explores different areas of decision-making within film production, focusing on each in the analysis of a film. THE POP SONG IN FILM Ian Garwood A series of detailed interpretations of moments in films where the pop song adopts a decisive storytelling role. READING BUFFY Deborah Thomas Looks at Joss Whedon’s acclaimed television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, through a close-reading approach more usually applied to films. ------------------------------------------------------------ OUR 2006 CATALOGUE IS NOW AVAILABLE. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FULL DETAILS VIA THE 'MAILING LIST' OPTION ON OUR WEBSITE, WWW.WALLFLOWERPRESS.CO.UK, TO RECEIVE A COPY. INSPECTION AND REVIEW COPIES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. EMAIL [log in to unmask] FOR MORE INFORMATION. ------------------------------------------------------------ ALSO NEW FROM WALLFLOWER PRESS SCREEN METHODS Comparative Readings in Film Studies Edited by Jacqueline Furby and Karen Randell A collection of essays that explores in detail the way in which Film Studies has been approached theoretically, culturally and historically and the ways in which this has changed in the twenty- first century. The book focuses on classical theories, culture-based approaches, early and modern theory, statistical approaches and the (potential) futures of critical film theory. Divided into three sections, the essays discuss ‘film form and method’, including notions of time, space and sound in cinema; ‘theory and method’, including the idea of spectatorship and portrayals of sex, sexuality and family; and ‘new technology and method’, which includes digital cinema, the influence of special effects and audience studies. Films discussed include Star Wars, A Room with a View, Philadelphia, Romance, American Beauty, and Gladiator, as well as the films of Jacques-Louis David and Ridley Scott. CROSSING NEW EUROPE Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli Although a long-established and influential genre, this is the first comprehensive study of the European road cinema. Crossing New Europe investigates this tradition, its relationship with the American road movie and its aesthetic forms. It examines such crucial issues as individual and national identity crises, and phenomena such as displacement, diaspora, exile, migration, nomadism, and tourism in postmodern, post-Berlin Wall Europe. Drawing on the work of Said, Hall, Shields, Urry, Bauman, Deleuze and Guattari and other critical theorists, Crossing New Europe adopts a broad interpretation of ‘Europe’ and discusses directors who have long been associated with the road movie, such as Wim Wenders (Alice in the Cities, Lisbon Story) and Aki Kaurismäki (Leningrad Cowboys Go America!); authors with a distinctive vision of the road, such as Eric Rohmer, Werner Herzog and Patrick Keiller; and more recent contributions such as Morvern Callar, Calendar, Code Unknown, Dear Diary and The Last Resort. SEX AND THE CINEMA Tanya Krzywinska Whether laced in the rapturous rhetorics of romance or seeking to pack a harder erotic punch, cinematic representations of sex and sexual desire have provided cinema with one of its major attractions. Sex and the Cinema traces the numerous factors and contexts – artistic, institutional, political and socio-cultural – that have shaped the way that sex appears in film. How does cinema mediate sex? Why is sex presented often in transgressive terms? What ideals and values inform cinematic depictions of sex? Given that cinematic representations of sex have perhaps caused more controversy than any others, Sex and the Cinema charts the cultural norms and contestations that are often diversely in play. Formal conventions used to represent sex and desire in cinema, as well as themes such as adultery, incest, romance, sado-masochism and ‘real’ sex are explored. Films discussed include Don’t Look Now, Broken Blossoms, Emmanuelle, Secretary, Close My Eyes, Eyes Wide Shut, Ginger Snaps, Frenchman’s Creek, Baise Moi, Romance, The Story of O, Zandalee, Way Down East, Red Dust, The War Zone and Oedipus Rex. WAR CINEMA Hollywood on the Front Line Guy Westwell An introduction to and overview of the Hollywood war movie, a lynchpin in American cultural imagination. The book considers the history of this genre, one of continuing significance from All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) to We Were Soldiers (2002). Guy Westwell focuses in particular on representations of the Vietnam War (Apocalypse Now (1979), Rambo (1985) and Platoon (1986)) and the more recent return to and reexamination of the Second World War (Saving Private Ryan (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001)). 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