Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the books for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Zellmann Direct Marketing Manager University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu Classic works exploring the nexus of the cinematic image and the human mind and the mythic nature of movie stardomat last available in English! THE CINEMA, OR THE IMAGINARY MAN Edgar Morin Translated by Lorraine Mortimer University of Minnesota Press | 320 pages | 2005 ISBN 0-8166-4037-8 | hardcover | $59.95 ISBN 0-8166-4038-6 | paperback | $19.95 When The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man first appeared in 1956, Edgar Morin perceived in the cinema a complex phenomenon capable of illuminating truths about thought, imagination, and human nature. Now making its English-language debut, this provocative work draws on insights from poets, filmmakers, anthropologists, and philosophers to restore to the cinema the sense of magic first enjoyed at the dawn of the medium. ³This fluid translation of and introduction to The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man by one of France's major thinkers is long overdue. Written at a time when film theory leaned to the reductive and severe, Edgar Morin instead embraced the broadest frameworks and wrote with great pleasure; his work on the subjectivity of participation in the experience of watching film is as current as ever.² Faye Ginsburg For more information, including the table of contents, visit the bookıs webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/M/morin_cinema.html THE STARS Edgar Morin Translated by Richard Howard Foreword by Lorraine Mortimer University of Minnesota Press | 136 pages | 2005 ISBN 0-8166-4122-6 | hardcover | $53.95 ISBN 0-8166-4123-4 | paperback | $17.95 Edgar Morin investigates the star system from its evolution when Chaplin, Garbo, and Valentino lived at a distance from their fans, to stars like Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe who became more approachable, and concludes with an analysis of the adulation surrounding James Dean. Ultimately, Morin finds, stars serve as intermediaries between the real and the imaginary. ³The Stars is a rich and insight-filled book about film as a resonant, 'magical' art.² Dana Polan For more information, including the table of contents, visit the bookıs webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/M/morin_stars.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org