Now available from Indiana University Press:
François Truffaut
The Lost Secret
Anne Gillain
Translated by Alistair Fox
For François Truffaut, the lost secret of cinematic art is in the ability
to generate emotion and reveal repressed fantasies through cinematic
representation. Available in English for the first time, Anne Gillain's
François Truffaut: The Lost Secret is considered by many to be the best
book on the interpretation of Truffaut's films. Taking a
psycho-biographical approach, Gillain shows how Truffaut's creative
impulse was anchored in his personal experience of a traumatic childhood
that left him lonely and emotionally deprived. In a series of brilliant,
nuanced readings of each of his films, she demonstrates how involuntary
memories arising from Truffaut's childhood not only furnish a succession
of motifs that are repeated from film to film, but also govern every
aspect of his mise en scène and cinematic technique.
374 pp., 40 b&w illus.
cloth 978-0-253-00834-3 $85.00
paper 978-0-253-00839-8 $30.00
ebook 978-0-253-00845-9 $24.99
More information at:
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/806750
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Importing Asta Nielsen
The International Film Star in the Making, 19101914
Edited by Martin Loiperdinger and Uli Jung
Danish silent film actress Asta Nielsen became a brand name in movie
houses around the globe in the early 1900s. Known simply as "The Asta,"
she exhibited both a subtle eroticism and a naturalistic style in her
performances, which propelled her into international stardom. Nielsen's
worldwide fame was made possible by film distributors adept at contracting
long runs for films in cinemas around the world. This volume examines the
role of these newly developed film distribution strategies and the
resulting emergence of the international film star.
KINtop Studies in Early Cinema
Distributed for John Libbey Publishing
Sales territory is limited to North America and Asia
400 pp., 20 color illus., 71 b&w illus.
paper 9780-86196-708-7 $38.00
More information at:
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/807125
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Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East
Rhetoric of the Image
Edited by Christiane Gruber and Sune Haugbolle
This timely book examines the power and role of the image in modern Middle
Eastern societies. The essays explore the role and function of image
making to highlight the ways in which the images ³speak² and what visual
languages mean for the construction of Islamic subjectivities, the
distribution of power, and the formation of identity and belonging. Visual
Culture in the Modern Middle East addresses aspects of the visual in the
Islamic world, including the presentation of Islam on television; on the
internet and other digital media; in banners, posters, murals, and
graffiti; and in the satirical press, cartoons, and children¹s books.
376 pp., 22 color illus., 79 b&w illus.
cloth 978-0-253-00884-8 $80.00
paper 978-0-253-00888-6 $28.00
ebook 978-0-253-00894-7 $23.99
More information at:
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/806803
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Global Nollywood
The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry
Edited by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome
Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its
Nigerian origins. In 15 lively essays, this volume traces the engagement
of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent and the
rest of the world. Topics such as Nollywood as a theoretical construct,
the development of a new, critical film language, and Nollywood¹s
transformation outside of Nigeria reveal the broader implications of this
film form as it travels and develops. Highlighting controversies
surrounding commodification, globalization, and the development of the
film industry on a wider scale, this volume gives sustained attention to
Nollywood as a uniquely African cultural production.
African Expressive Cultures
382 pp., 10 b&w illus.
cloth 978-0-253-00923-4 $80.00
paper 978-0-253-00935-7 $30.00
ebook 978-0-253-00942-5 $24.99
More information at:
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/806818
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