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. 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