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APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL edited by James Quandt (published by the Austrian Film Museum)
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CINEMA IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Nicholas Rombes
Does the digital era spell the death of cinema as we know it, or its rebirth? Or the emergence of something else entirely? Cinema in the Digital Age examines the fate of cinema in this new era, paying special attention not only to the technologies that are reshaping film, but to the cultural meaning of those technologies. Examining Festen (1998), The Blair Witch Project (1999), Timecode (2000), Russian Ark (2002), The Ring (2002) and others, this volume explores how such films are haunted by their own analogue pasts, and suggests that their signature element is not digital perfection but rather deliberate imperfections that take the form of blurry or pixilated images, shaky camera work and other elements that remind viewers that human beings made these films. Weaving together a rich variety of sources,Cinema in the Digital Age is a deeply humanistic look at the meaning of cinematic images in the era of digital perfection.
April 2009
224 pages
| 978-1-905674-85-5 (pbk) | £16.99 | £11.89 with 30% Spring Sale discount |
about the author
Nicholas Rombes is Chair of the English Department at the University of Detroit Mercy. He is the author of The Ramones (2005) and editor of New Punk Cinema (2005), as well as a writer of numerous articles on cinema and culture.
SCENES OF LOVE AND MURDER
Renoir, Film and Philosophy
Colin Davis
Jean Renoir (1894-1979) has long been considered one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema. Films such as La Grande Illusion (1937) and La Règle du jeu (1939) rank amongst the masterpieces of film art. This book examines his films from the 1930s in the light of recent developments in philosophical film criticism. With reference to thinkers such as Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Girard, Derrida and Cavell, it argues that Renoir's work engages with and elucidates some of the great philosophical questions. In particular the films are shown to reflect on the nature of murder and its links with desire, community, ethics and the mystery of other minds. Although the 1930s end for Renoir in political disillusionment, his final film of the decade, La Règle du jeu, intimates a new accommodation with the enigma of the unknown other. It points toward the possibility of welcoming what remains alien to the self rather than violently eradicating it.
April 2009224 pages
| 978-1-905674-63-3 (pbk) | £16.99 | £11.89 with 30% Spring Sale discount |
about the author
Colin Davis is Professor of French at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include Ethical Issues in Twentieth-Century French Fiction: Killing the Other (2000), After Poststructuralism: Reading Stories and Theory (2004) and Haunted Subjects: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and the Return of the Dead (2007).
THE HITCHCOCK ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY
Selected Essays from Volumes 10-15
Sidney GottliebFor over 15 years, the Hitchcock Annual has published groundbreaking and authoritative scholarship on Hitchcock, and has become the journal of record for Hitchcock studies. Wallflower Press is proud to announce that we will be taking on the publication of this prestigious volume from 2009. Initiating this new relationship is The Hitchcock Annual Anthology, featuring contributions from such leading critics as Charles Barr, Thomas Elsaesser, Bill Krohn, Mark Rappaport, Michael Walker, Robin Wood and Slavoj Zizek, and including essays on the full range of Hitchcock's work, from the lesser-known silents to his late American masterpieces, overviews of Hitchcock criticism and interviews and discussions among collaborators.
April 2009
224 pages
| 978-1-905674-95-4 (pbk) | £16.99 | £11.89 with 30% Spring Sale discount |
about the author
Sidney Gottlieb is Professor of Media Studies and Digital Culture at Sacred Heart University. He is the editor of Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews (1997) and Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews (2003), and co-editor of Framing Hitchcock (2002). Richard Allen is Professor and Chair of Cinema Studies at New York University. He is the author of Hitchcock's Romantic Irony (2007) and co-editor of Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays (1999) and Hitchcock: Past and Future (2003).
APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
James Quandt (ed.)Thai filmmaker Apichatpong ‘Joe’ Weerasethakul is widely praised as one of the central figures in contemporary cinema. Trained as a visual artist in the US, he has stunned the film world with five innovative and dreamlike features made since the year 2000 – including award-winning films such as Blissfully Yours (2002),Tropical Malady (2004) and Syndromes and a Century (2006). James Quandt, the editor of this first English-language book on Weerasethakul, is one of the foremost film critics and curators working in North America today. Further contributors include Benedict Anderson, Tony Rayns, Kong Rithdee and actress Tilda Swinton.
Published by the Austrian Film Museum
April 2009
200 pages
| 978-3-901644-31-3 (pbk) | £15.99 | £11.19 with 30% Spring Sale discount
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about the editor
James Quandt is Senior Programmer at Cinematheque Ontario. He has written extensively about film and edited books on Robert Bresson, Kon Ichikawa and Shohei Imamura, among others.
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