1. Studies in French Cinema: UK Perspectives 1985--2010, edited by Will Higbee and Sarah Leahy 2. Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe by William Brown, Dina Iordanova, and Leshu Torchin 3. Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities. Edited by Dina Iordanova with Ruby Cheung ************************************* 1. Studies in French Cinema: UK Perspectives 1985--2010, edited by Will Higbee and Sarah Leahy /Studies in French Cinema/ looks at the development of French screen studies in the United Kingdom over the past twenty years and the ways in which innovative scholarship in the UK has helped shape the field in English and French speaking universities. This seminal text is also a tribute to six key figures within the field who have been leaders in research and teaching of French cinema: Jill Forbes, Susan Hayward, Phil Powrie, Keith Reader, Carrie Tarr, and Ginette Vincendeau. Coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the celebrated Intellect journal of the same title and covering a wide range of key films ---contemporary and historical, popular and auteur---the volume provides an invaluable overview of the state of French cinema and French film studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. See here for a table of contents: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4708/ ************************************* 2. Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe by William Brown, Dina Iordanova, and Leshu Torchin In the past decade, the dramatic rise in migration and the demise of national borders across the 'new' Europe have helped to turn human traffic into one of the dominant narratives of contemporary cinema. Moving People, Moving Images focuses on the current cycle of films that play upon global anxieties about trafficking and reflects on recent films that depict white slavery, drug trafficking and undocumented labour. The volume considers a range of films including work by French-language filmmakers: the Dardenne Brothers, Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche, Pierre Morel and Luc Besson, Lous Leterrier, Merzak Allouache, Michael Haneke, Philippe Grandrieux, Philippe Lioret, and Abdel Kechiche. It also takes in work by French-produced filmmakers such as Amos Gitai and Aberrahmane Sissako. http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmbooks ************************************* 3. Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities. Edited by Dina Iordanova with Ruby Cheung Film Festivals and Imagined Communities (2010), the second volume of the Film Festival Yearbook from St Andrews Film Studies, comes timely to shed light on these issues. This latest volume brings together essays about festivals that use international cinema to facilitate transnationally 'imagined communities' for diverse socio-cultural-ethnic interactions in a vast range of places, from Vienna, San Francisco, and Havana to Seoul, Bradford, and Dakhar. The 'Contexts' section includes texts highlighting aspects of festival organisation, cultural policies, and funding models, as well as analysing programming practices related to these often highly politicised events. The book specifically offers analyses of French film festivals in the UK and French film festivals in France. The diverse range of contributors and contributions to the volume reflect the series' transnational focus. Authors include Ruby Cheung, Lindiwe Dovey, Michael Guillén, Yun Mi Hwang, Dina Iordanova, Miriam Ross, Isabel Santaolalla and Stefan Simanowitz, Mustafa Gündog(du, Jérôme Segal, and Roy Stafford. The book features the 2009 update of the film festival research bibliography by Skadi Loist and Marijke de Valck, and an extensive thematically-organised listing of a variety of transnational festivals. http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmbooks -- Phil Powrie Professor of Cinema Studies School of Modern Languages Jessop West University of Sheffield 1 Upper Hanover Street Sheffield S3 7RA Email: [log in to unmask] Studies in French Cinema: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/sfc/home.htm ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu