Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Lienemann Direct Response and Scholarly Promotions Manager University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu An innovative examination of the way we watch films‹with a new introduction. FILM HIEROGLYPHS Tom Conley University of Minnesota Press | 296 pages | 2007 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4970-9 | paperback | $22.50 At a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching film‹examining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures) at which story, image, and writing appear to be at odds with one another. ³Teaches a manner of film viewing that is necessary, convincing, and, through the repeated demonstration of method, accessible.² ‹T. Jefferson Kline ³A persuasive argument for renovating the ways we Œread films.¹² ‹Bulletin of the History of Medicine For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book¹s webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/C/conley_film.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html