Now available from Indiana University Press: Early Cinema Today The Art of Programming and Live Performance Edited by Martin Loiperdinger Invented in the 1890s and premiered in Paris by the Lumière brothers, the cinematograph along with Louis Le Prince's single-lens camera projector are considered by film historians to be the precursors to modern-day motion picture devices. These early movies were often shown in town halls, on fairgrounds, and in theaters, requiring special showmanship skills to effectively work the equipment and entertain onlookers. Within the last decade, film archives and film festivals have unearthed this lost art and have featured outstanding examples of the culture of early cinema reconfigured for today's audiences. KINtop Studies in Early Cinema Distributed for John Libbey Publishing Sales territory is limited to North America and Asia 160 pp., 30 color; 29 b&w paper 978-0-86196-702-5 $28.00 For more information, visit: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/806520 --------------------- The Dragon and the Dazzle Models, Strategies, and Identities of Japanese Imagination: A European Perspective Marco Pellitteri Preface by Kiyomitsu Yui With an essay by Jean-Marie Bouissou Marco Pellitteri examines the growing influence of Japanese pop culture in European contexts in this comprehensive study of manga, anime, and video games. Looking at the period from 1975 to today, Pellitteri discusses Super Mario, Pokémon, kawaii, Sonic, robots and cyborgs, Astro Boy, and Gundam, among other examples of these popular forms. Pellitteri divides this period into two eras (³the dragon² and ³the dazzle²) to better understand this cultural phenomenon and means by which it achieved worldwide distribution. Distributed for John Libbey Publishing Sales territory is limited to North America and Asia 689 pp., 118 b&w illus. paper 978-0-861-96700-1 $42.00 For more information, visit: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/806483 For Instructors: If you are interested in adopting these books for course use, please see our exam copy policy: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/link/examcopy 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 ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org