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1. Studies in French Cinema: UK Perspectives 1985--2010, edited by Will 
Higbee and Sarah Leahy

2. Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New 
Europe by William Brown, Dina Iordanova, and Leshu Torchin

3. Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities. 
Edited by Dina Iordanova with Ruby Cheung


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1. Studies in French Cinema: UK Perspectives 1985--2010, edited by Will 
Higbee and Sarah Leahy

/Studies in French Cinema/ looks at the development of French screen 
studies in the United Kingdom over the past twenty years and the ways in 
which innovative scholarship in the UK has helped shape the field in 
English and French speaking universities. This seminal text is also a 
tribute to six key figures within the field who have been leaders in 
research and teaching of French cinema: Jill Forbes, Susan Hayward, Phil 
Powrie, Keith Reader, Carrie Tarr, and Ginette Vincendeau.


Coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the celebrated Intellect 
journal of the same title and covering a wide range of key films 
---contemporary and historical, popular and auteur---the volume provides 
an invaluable overview of the state of French cinema and French film 
studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

See here for a table of contents: 
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4708/


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2. Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New 
Europe by William Brown, Dina Iordanova, and Leshu Torchin

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 work by 
French-language filmmakers: the Dardenne Brothers, Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche, 
Pierre Morel and Luc Besson, Lous Leterrier, Merzak Allouache, Michael 
Haneke, Philippe Grandrieux, Philippe Lioret, and Abdel Kechiche. It 
also takes in work by French-produced filmmakers such as Amos Gitai and 
Aberrahmane Sissako.

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmbooks


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3. Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities. 
Edited by Dina Iordanova with Ruby Cheung

Film Festivals and Imagined Communities (2010), the second volume of the 
Film Festival Yearbook from St Andrews Film Studies, comes timely to 
shed light on these issues. This latest volume brings together essays 
about festivals that use international cinema to facilitate 
transnationally 'imagined communities' for diverse socio-cultural-ethnic 
interactions in a vast range of places, from Vienna, San Francisco, and 
Havana to Seoul, Bradford, and Dakhar. The 'Contexts' section includes 
texts highlighting aspects of festival organisation, cultural policies, 
and funding models, as well as analysing programming practices related 
to these often highly politicised events. The book specifically offers 
analyses of French film festivals in the UK and French film festivals in 
France.

The diverse range of contributors and contributions to the volume 
reflect the series' transnational focus. Authors include Ruby Cheung, 
Lindiwe Dovey, Michael Guillén, Yun Mi Hwang, Dina Iordanova, Miriam 
Ross, Isabel Santaolalla and Stefan Simanowitz, Mustafa Gündog(du, 
Jérôme Segal, and Roy Stafford. The book features the 2009 update of the 
film festival research bibliography by Skadi Loist and Marijke de Valck, 
and an extensive thematically-organised listing of a variety of 
transnational festivals.

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmbooks

-- 
Phil Powrie
Professor of Cinema Studies
School of Modern Languages
Jessop West
University of Sheffield
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield S3 7RA Email: [log in to unmask]


Studies in French Cinema: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/sfc/home.htm


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