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The University of California Press  is pleased to announce in paperback:

James Ivory in Conversation: How Merchant Ivory Makes Its Movies

Robert Emmet Long has written or edited over
forty books that reflect an unusual versatility,
ranging from works on Henry James to James
Thurber, from the films of Ingmar Bergman to the
Broadway musicals of Jerome Robbins. His book
_The Films of Merchant Ivory _(1997) is the
standard work on the subject. Janet Maslin is
film and book critic for the _New York Times. _

http://go.ucpress.edu/LongConversation

"James Ivory is one of our greatest living
directors, and these pages, deliciously poised
between diplomacy and indiscretion, brim with his
vast experience of every nook and cranny of the
film world."-Kazuo Ishiguro

_James Ivory in Conversation _is an exclusive
series of interviews with a director known for
the international scope of his filmmaking on
several continents. Three-time Academy Award
nominee for best director, responsible for such
film classics as _A Room with a View _and _The
Remains of the Day, _Ivory speaks with remarkable
candor and wit about his more than forty years as
an independent filmmaker. In this deeply engaging
book, he comments on the many aspects of his
world-traveling career: his growing up in Oregon
(he is not an Englishman, as most Europeans and
many Americans think), his early involvement with
documentary films that first brought attention to
him, his discovery of India, his friendships with
celebrated figures here and abroad, his
skirmishes with the Picasso family and Thomas
Jefferson scholars, his usually candid yet at
times explosive relations with actors. Supported
by seventy illuminating photographs selected by
Ivory himself, the book offers a wealth of
previously unavailable information about the
director's life and the art of making movies.

Full information about the book, including <a
href="/books/pages/9738/9738.ch01.pdf">Read
Chapter 1, "Setting the Scene," in pdf
format</a>, , including the table of contents, is
available online:
http://go.ucpress.edu/LongConversation



The British Film Institute is pleased to announce the publication of:

Hollywood: Politics and Society

Mark Wheeler is Senior Lecturer in the Department
of Law, Governance and International Relations at
London Metropolitan University.

http://go.ucpress.edu/Wheeler


At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the
U.S. film industry had overtaken aeronautics and
car industries to become one of the highest
exporters of American products. Mark Wheeler's
important new book provides both a political
history of Hollywood and a reflection on the
relationship between cinema and politics in
America, from 1900 to the present day.
Wheeler considers the interplay between the
movies studios, state and national government,
and cultural policy and legislation, with case
studies of the censorship that followed in the
wake of the Hays Code of 1930 and the
investigations of the House Committee on
Un-American Activities (HUAC) in the 1950s that
led to the notorious blacklisting of alleged or
known Communist sympathizers. His history of
political constituencies within Hollywood ranges
from the conservative right to the liberal and
the communist left, from trades unionists to
movie moguls.
The book concludes with a look at the politics of
show business, addressing links between Hollywood
and political activism, films such as The
Candidate and Bulworth that have themselves
engaged with the political process, and
considering the irony that despite the fact that
Hollywood is perceived as a bastion of liberalism
the two most famous actors-turned-politicians
have been Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

British Film Institute books are distributed in
North America and Asia by the University of
California Press.

Full information about the bookis available
online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Wheeler

The British Film Institute is pleased to announce the publication of:

Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion

Robert Murphy is Professor in Film Studies at De
Montfort University in Leicester. Previous
publications include _The British Cinema Book
1997, 2001_ and _Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and
Society in Britain, 1939-49_ (1989).

http://go.ucpress.edu/MurphyDirectors


This unique volume presents a comprehensive
reference guide to directors who have worked in
the British and Irish film industries between
1895 and 2005. Each of its 980 entries on
individual directors, from Rodney Ackland to Fred
Zinneman, gives a resumé of the director's
career, evaluates their achievements, and
provides a guide to source material and a
complete filmography. Engaging with the entire
history of British and Irish cinema, the book
encompasses filmmakers from Charles Chaplin to
Lynne Ramsay, directors who worked in mainstream
cinema and those who worked in the independent
sector; those who are associated with the heyday
of British cinema-Asquith, Powell and
Pressburger, Mackendrick and Korda-or with the
heady years of the 60s and 70s-Ken Russell, Nic
Roeg, Derek Jarman, and Stanley Kubrick-as well
as addressing contemporary filmmakers such as
Nick Broomfield, Mike Figgis, Antonia Bird, and
Anthony Minghella. The book is packed with
fascinating facts, critical summaries and
invaluable contextualizing details.

British Film Institute books are distributed in
North America and Asia by the University of
California Press.

Full information about the bookis available
online: http://go.ucpress.edu/MurphyDirectors

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Lolita Guevarra
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University of California Press
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