Hello, I hope you will include these new book notices. If the content is inappropriate, please let me know and I will not send any further notices. Thank you so much, Jessica Pellien Marketing and Web Coordinator FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Publicity Department, 732-445-7762 ext. 626 Rutgers University Press Announces the Publication of AN EYE FOR HITCHCOCK A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON A CLASSIC FILMMAKER New Brunswick, NJ — The artistic richness of Alfred Hitchcock’s films has allowed for extensive study of his work, but have these classics, as well as Hitchcock’s less popular films, truly been understood? In AN EYE FOR HITCHCOCK (Publication date: April 2004; 304 pp., 7 photographs, Paper, $22.95, 0-8135-3395-3, Cloth, $62.00, 0-8135-3394-5), film scholar Murray Pomerance presents a series of meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock. Two of the films are extraordinarily famous and have been seen––and misunderstood––countless times: North by Northwest and Vertigo. Two others, Marnie and Torn Curtain, have been mostly disregarded by viewers and critics, or considered to be colossal mistakes, while two others, Spellbound and I Confess, have received almost no critical attention at all. Murray Pomerance takes us deep into the structure of Hitchcock’s vision and his screen architecture. He shows how Hitchcock was profoundly interested not only in social class, but also in humanity’s philosophical predicament, as we traverse a world fraught with shifting appearances, multiple deceptions, vulnerability, and peril. Pomerance also reveals the link between Hitchcock’s work and a wide range of thinkers and artists in other fields. On every page, there are illuminating critical insights and intriguing pieces of factual information. After reading this groundbreaking book, viewers of Hitchcock’s films will see them in an entirely new light. Murray Pomerance, professor and chair in the department of sociology at Ryerson University, is the editor of the forthcoming book BAD: Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen. He has published fiction and criticism in the Paris Review, New Directions, Film Quarterly, and the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, among other publications. Founded in 1936, Rutgers University Press is a non-profit academic publishing house operating under the auspices of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and supported by its Board of Governors. The Press publishes titles in African American studies, Asian American studies, Asian studies, art, cultural studies, environmental studies, film, gay and lesbian studies, health, history, literature, medicine, New Jersey and regional studies, political science, psychology, religion, sociology, science, and women’s studies. Rutgers University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses. ### The book can be ordered through amazon.com and is in bookstores everywhere. Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0813533953/ref=lpr_g_1/104-7045345-2614348?v=glance&s=books Rutgers University Press link: http://165.230.98.36/acatalog/__An_Eye_for_Hitchcock_1366.html ### FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Publicity Department, 732-445-7762 ext. 626 Rutgers University Press Announces the Publication of BLACK MAGIC White Hollywood and African American Culture New Brunswick, NJ— Why do so many African American film characters seem to have magical powers? And why do they use them only to help white people? When the actors are white, why is the sound track so commonly performed by African Americans? And why do so many white actors imitate black people when they wish to express strong emotion? As Krin Gabbard reveals in Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture (Publication Date: May 2004; 336pp.; Paper, $19.95, 0-8135-3384-8; Cloth, $62.00, 0-8135-3383-x), we recognize the cultural heritage of African Americans in literature, music, and art, but there is a disturbing pattern in the roles that blacks are asked to play—particularly in the movies. Many recent films, including The Matrix, Fargo, The Green Mile, Ghost, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Pleasantville, The Bridges of Madison County, and Crumb, reveal a fascination with black music and sexuality even as they preserve the old racial hierarchies. Quite often the dependence on African American culture remains hidden—although it is almost perversely pervasive. In the final chapters of Black Magic, Gabbard looks at films by Robert Altman and Spike Lee that attempt to reverse many of these widespread trends. Krin Gabbard is a professor of comparative literature and English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author most recently of Jammin’ at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema. Founded in 1936, Rutgers University Press is a non-profit academic publishing house operating under the auspices of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and supported by its Board of Governors. The Press publishes titles in African American studies, Asian American studies, Asian studies, art, cultural studies, environmental studies, film, gay and lesbian studies, health, history, literature, medicine, New Jersey and regional studies, political science, psychology, religion, sociology, science, and women’s studies. Rutgers University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses. ### The book can be ordered through amazon.com and is in bookstores everywhere. 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