Indiana University Press is pleased to announce the recent publication of: Widescreen Worldwide Edited by John Belton, Sheldon Hall, and Steven Neale Examining widescreen cinema as a worldwide aesthetic and industrial phenomenon, the essays in this volume situate the individual expressions of this new technology within the larger cultural and industrial practices that inform them. What Hollywood sought to market globally as CinemaScope, SuperScope, Techniscope, Technirama, and Panavision took indigenous form in a host of compatible anamorphic formats developed around the world. The book documents how the aesthetics of the first wave of American widescreen films underwent revision in Europe and Asia as filmmakers brought their own idiolect to the language of widescreen mise-en-scène, editing, and sound practices. The work of Otto Preminger, Anthony Mann, Samuel Fuller, Sam Peckinpah, Seijun Suzuki, Kihachi Okamoto, and Tai Kato, among others, is addressed. Distributed for John Libbey Publishing Sales territory is limited to North America 232 pp., 162 b&w illus. cloth 978-0-86196-694-3 $34.95 For more information, visit: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?isbn=978-0-86196-694 -3 -------------------- Japanese Animation Time Out of Mind Chris Robinson While visiting Japan, animation writer Chris Robinson gets lost. As he drifts through Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Kyoto he happens upon a number of mysterious figures including Bob Dylan, Haruki Murakami, Sumo wrestlers, Big Bird and, by good chance, many famous Japanese animators‹both living and dead. Each of these characters takes Robinson into a deep, dark, mysterious world of Japanese animation that does not include Godzilla, Akira, Anime, Manga, or Hasao Miyazaki. This inventive and unusual study rewrites the history of Japanese animation looking at the work of Atsushi Wada, Taku Furukawa, Renzo and Sayoko Kinoshita, Maya Yonesho, and many more. Distributed for John Libbey Publishing Sales territory is limited to North America 160 pp., 70 color illus., 21 b&w illus. paper 978-0-86196-692-9 $29.95 For more information, visit: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?isbn=978-0-86196-692 -9 -------------------- Polish Cinema Now! Edited by Mateusz Werner Polish cinema has exercised an independent voice for more than 20 years, challenging political censorship and breaking the old production monopoly of the previous communist government. During this time, Polish movie makers have enjoyed the same freedoms and possibilities as their French or German counterparts, producing 500 feature films and several thousand documentaries. These works are paradoxically less well known internationally than the Polish films made behind the ³iron curtain²‹when cultural exchange with the western world was controlled exclusively by communist authorities. Polish Cinema Now! facilitates the discovery of this relatively unknown group of works with 11 engaging essays by leading experts from both Poland and abroad. Richly illustrated, this book contains a two-DVD set of short films. Distributed for John Libbey Publishing Sales territory is limited to North America 240 pp., 1 color illus., 11 b&w illus. paper 978-0-86196-691-2 $39.95 For more information, visit: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?isbn=978-0-86196-691 -2 -------------------- For Instructors: If you are interested in adopting these books for course use, please see our exam copy policy: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/information.php?info_id=122&meid=122 -------------------- Laura Baich Electronic Marketing Manager Indiana University Press 812-855-8287 | 812-856-0415 (fax) online: http://iupress.indiana.edu blog: http://iupress.typepad.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/iupress Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/iupress ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]