Dear Screen-L: The British Film Institute is pleased to announce the publication of: 100 Road Movies The Big Lebowski 100 European Horror Films On Kubrick City Lights Lawrence of Arabia Pedro Almodovar 100 Road Movies A film programmer, filmmaker and writer, Jason Wood's previous publications include _100 American Independent Films_ (2004), _Nick Broomfield: Documenting Icons_ (2005), and _The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema_ (2006). http://go.ucpress.edu/Wood From the earliest days of American cinema, the road movie has been synonymous with American culture. But the road movie is not uniquely American, and other national cinemas have offered their own take, adapting it to reflect their own sensibilities and geographies. Whatever its nationality, the road movie has presented a means by which to challenge and confront convention, remaining an ever-changing, fascinating metaphor for life. Beginning with an expansive essay tracing their historical development, _100 Road Movies _is an entertaining but comprehensive guide to one of the most enduring and popular movie sub-genres. Film entries include _The Grapes of Wrath, Easy Rider, Two-Lane Blacktop, Stranger Than Paradise, _and _The Motorcycle Diaries. _ The Big Lebowski J. M. Tyree is a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. Ben Walters is deputy Film Editor at _Time Out London_. http://go.ucpress.edu/Tyree Since its release nearly ten years ago, _The Big Lebowski _has become a cult classic with a worldwide following. One of the high-water marks of 1990s genre recycling and pastiche, _The Big Lebowski _is littered with playful and subversive references to film history and jokes that become funnier with repetition. Yet underneath the film's breakneck pacing and foul-mouthed characters is a surprisingly humane account of what fools we mortals be. In this study, _The Big Lebowski _is set into the context of 1990s Hollywood cinema, anatomized for its witty relationship with the classics it satirizes, and discussed in terms of its key theme: the hopeless flailing of ridiculously unmanly men in the world of discombobulated, mixed-up, or put-on identities that is Los Angeles. 100 European Horror Films Steven Jay Schneider is a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. http://go.ucpress.edu/Schneider100 From bloodsucking schoolgirls to flesh-eating zombies, and from psychopathic killers to beasts from hell, _100 European Horror Films_ provides a lively and illuminating guide to a hundred key horror movies from the 1920s to the present day. Alongside films from countries particularly associated with horror production-notably Germany, Italy, and Spain-and movies by key horror filmmakers such as Mario Bava, Dario Argento, and Lucio Fulci, _100 European Horror Films_ also includes films from countries as diverse as Denmark, Belgium, and the Soviet Union, and filmmakers such as Bergman, Polanski and Claire Denis, more commonly associated with art cinema. The book features entries representing key horror subgenres such as the Italian "giallo" thrillers of the late 60s and 70s, psychological thrillers, and zombie, cannibal, and vampire movies. On Kubrick James Naremore is Emeritus Chancellors' Professor of Communication, Culture and English, Indiana University. Previous publications include _More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts_ (University of California Press, 1998). http://go.ucpress.edu/Naremore _On Kubrick_ is a critical study of Stanley Kubrick's career, beginning with his earliest feature, _Fear and Desire_ (1953), and ending with his posthumous production of _A.I., Artificial Intelligence_ (2001). Organized in six parts ("The Taste Machine," "Young Kubrick," "Kubrick, Harris, Douglas," "Stanley Kubrick Presents," "Late Kubrick," and "Epilogue"), it offers provocative analysis of each of Kubrick's films together with new information about their production histories and cultural contexts. Its ultimate aim is to provide a concise yet thorough discussion that will be useful as both an academic text and a trade publication. City Lights Charles Maland is Professor of Cinema Studies, American Studies and English at the University of Tennessee. http://go.ucpress.edu/Maland Despite its long and difficult production history, in 1967 Charlie Chaplin told an interviewer, "I think I like _City Lights_ the best of all my films." Aesthetically, technologically, and culturally, _City Lights_ is a key transitional film in Chaplin's body of work, as the director/writer/actor responded for the first time to sound films and stepped in the direction of the social commentary that would become more overt in _Modern Times_ (1936) and _The Great Dictator_ (1940). Based on extensive archival research of Chaplin's production records, Charles Maland's _City Lights_ offers a careful history of the film's production and reception, as well as a close examination of the film itself, with special attention to the sources of the final scene's emotional power. Lawrence of Arabia Kevin Jackson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Companion of the Guild of St George. His previous publications include _Withnail & I_ (2004). http://go.ucpress.edu/Jackson _Lawrence of Arabia_ is widely considered one of the ten greatest films ever made-though more often by film goers and filmmakers than by critics. This study argues that the film is a unique blend of visionary image-making, narrative power, mythopoetic charm and psychological acuteness; far from being a _Boy's Own Tale, _it is one of popular cinema's greatest tragedies. This volume brings together a critical analysis of the film and an account of its tangled production history-combining these elements with the story of attempts by Alexander Korda and others to bring Lawrence's story to the screen. Pedro Almodóvar Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz is Associate Professor of Film Studies, Comparative Literature & Humanities, University of Colorado, Boulder. http://go.ucpress.edu/Acevedo-MunozAlmodovar The book provides a detailed introduction to the essential themes, style, and aesthetics of Pedro Almodóvar's films, put in the context of Spain's profound cultural transitions since 1980. With precise and close analysis, the book covers the major concerns of the most successful of all Spanish film directors and makes direct, clear connections to the logic of Almodóvar's aesthetic and stylistic choices. By spanning the entirety of Pedro Almodóvar's feature-making career, the book emphasizes the director's sensibility to make the outrageous believable and to always give a unique spin to the issues of Spanish history, culture and identity. 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