Wallflower Press imprint: 134 books
Bollywood
Gods, Glamour, and Gossip
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
While we have become familiar with the idea of "Bollywood" here in the West, we know little about the industry's films beyond a certain celebration of kitsch. Bollywood, the latest in Wallflower Press's Short Cuts introductory series, surveys this style of filmmaking from its origins in...
by Stephen Glynn
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
1964: Mods clash with Rockers in Brighton, creating a moral panic. 1973: ex-Mod band The Who release Quadrophenia, a concept album following young Mod Jimmy Cooper to the Brighton riots and beyond. 1979: Franc Roddam directs Quadrophenia, a film based on Pete Townshend's album narrative; its cult...
The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers
Responsible Realism
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have established an international reputation for their emotionally powerful realist cinema. Inspired by their home turf of Liège-Seraing, a former industrial hub of French-speaking southern Belgium, they have crafted a series of fiction films that blends...
The Cinema of Agnès Varda
Resistance and Eclecticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Agnès Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, filmmakers, and audiences alike, as audacious, seminal, and unforgettable. This volume considers her production as a whole, revisiting overlooked films like...
The Cinema of István Szabó
Visions of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
István Szabó is one of Hungary's most celebrated and best-known film directors, and the only Hungarian to have won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, for Mephisto (1981). In a career spanning over five decades Szabó has relentlessly examined the place of the individual in European...
Mediamorphosis
Kafka and the Moving Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The idea of a visual manifestation of the work of Franz Kafka was denied by many—first and foremost by Kafka himself, who famously urged his publisher to avoid an image of an insect on the cover of Metamorphosis. Be that as it may, it is unlikely that such a central progenitor of twentieth-century...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Film Dialogue is the first anthology in film studies devoted to the topic of language in cinema, bringing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss the aesthetic, narrative, and ideological dimensions of film speech that have largely gone unappreciated and unheard. Consisting of thirteen essays...
The Cinema of Me
The Self and Subjectivity in First Person Documentary
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
When a filmmaker makes a film with herself as a subject, she is already divided as both the subject matter of the film and the subject making the film. The two senses of the word are immediately in play – the matter and the maker—thus the two ways of being subjectified as both subject and object....
International Politics and Film
Space, Vision, Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
International Politics and Film introduces readers to the representational qualities of film but also draws attention to how the relationship between the visual and the spatial is constitutive of international politics. Using four themes—borders, the state of exception, homeland and distant others—the...
Parallel Lines
Post-9/11 American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Parallel Lines describes how post-9/11 cinema, from Spike Lee's 25th Hour (2002) to Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty (2012), relates to different, and competing, versions of US national identity in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The book combines readings of individual films...
The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom
Borders, Intimacy, Terror
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This comprehensive study of prolific British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom explores the thematic, stylistic, and intellectual consistencies running through his eclectic and controversial body of work. This volume undertakes a close analysis of a TV series directed by Winterbottom and sixteen of his...
The Cinema of Ang Lee
The Other Side of the Screen
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Born in Taiwan, Ang Lee is one of cinema's most versatile and daring directors. His ability to cut across cultural, national, and sexual boundaries has given him recognition in all corners of the world, the ability to work with complete artistic freedom whether inside or outside of Hollywood, and...
Rising Sun, Divided Land
Japanese and South Korean Filmmakers
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Rising Sun and Divided Land provides a comprehensive, scholarly examination of the historical background, films, and careers of selected Korean and Japanese film directors. It examines eight directors: Fukasaku Kinji, Im Kwon-teak, Kawase Naomi, Miike Takashi, Lee Chang-dong, Kitano Takeshi, Park...
Bio-pics
A Life in Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Bio-pics: A Life in Pictures offers a series of case studies which throw light on this most unique of genres. Is the bio-pic a genre in its own right? Or are such films merely footnotes in other more traditional genres such as the western or costume drama, depending on the historical figure under...