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Dear friends and colleagues, I am writing to announce the release of Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe by William Brown, Dina Iordanova, and Leshu Torchin. I hope this is of interest to you. *** Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe ISBN (13): 978-1-9066-7803-6 (paperback) Price £17.99 (UK), $29.00 (US) 257pp. Available for purchase from: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmbooks In the past decade, the dramatic rise in migration and the demise of national borders across the ‘new’ Europe have helped to turn human traffic into one of the dominant narratives of contemporary cinema. Moving People, Moving Images focuses on the current cycle of films that play upon global anxieties about trafficking and reflects on recent films that depict white slavery, drug trafficking and undocumented labour. The volume considers a range of films including the work of internationally renowned directors such as Promised Land (Amos Gitaï), Lorna’s Silence (the Dardenne Brothers) and Ghosts (Nick Broomfield), popular genres such as Taken (Pierre Morel), and lesser known but unquestionably important works such as The Bus (Tunç Okan) and When Mother Comes Home for Christmas (Nilita Vachani). *** ‘Moving People, Moving Images is a groundbreaking and much-needed study of the intersections between film and human trafficking… This volume is both a complete and valuable teaching tool, and a precious resource for future research, and sets the agenda for more work in this all-important area.’ --- Laura Rascaroli, University College Cork, Ireland ‘One of the attractions of this book is precisely that it refuses to tread lightly and tentatively across the well-established divide between cinematic representations and socio-political issues. It makes a provocative argument for the political effect of films and proposes that human trafficking should not be the rightful, let alone the exclusive, domain of governments, NGOs, activist organizations and the social sciences.’ -- Aniko Imre, University of Southern California *** About the authors: William Brown teaches Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include digital technology and cinema, cognitive approaches to cinema, and transnational cinema. His work has been published in various journals and edited collections, and he is the co-editor of Deleuze and Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2011). He is the editor/manager of the collaborative film blog, http://cinemasalon.ning.com. Dina Iordanova has built an academic career as a specialist on the cinema of Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Her more recent work is focused on business models and distribution patterns within the international film industries. She is Director of the Centre for Film Studies at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where she leads The Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Dynamics of World Cinema’ (www.st-andrews.ac.uk/worldcinema). She is also the editor and publisher of the Film Festival Yearbook (FFY) series, which has recently released Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities. Her recent work appears in Cinema at the Periphery (2010) and her blog, Dinaview.com. Leshu Torchin teaches Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. Her research focus is on screen media, advocacy, and human rights. Her work has appeared in a range of publications including Third Text, Film & History, American Anthropologist, and Cineaste and in collections such as The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture (Wallflower, 2007). She is currently completing her book project, Creating the Witness: Genocide in the Age of Film, Video and the Internet. * * Film-Philosophy salon After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For technical help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon * Film-Philosophy online: http://www.film-philosophy.com Contact: [log in to unmask] **