Now available from Indiana University Press: Euro Horror Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture Ian Olney "Guaranteed to send scholars and fans running back to their DVD outlets, either to discover or revisit some of the oddest and most provocative horror films of all time." ‹Harry M. Benshoff, author of Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film Beginning in the 1950s, "Euro Horror" movies materialized in astonishing numbers from Italy, Spain, and France and popped up in the US at rural drive-ins and urban grindhouse theaters such as those that once dotted New York's Times Square. Gorier, sexier, and stranger than most American horror films of the time, they were embraced by hardcore fans and denounced by critics as the worst kind of cinematic trash. In this volume, Olney explores some of the most popular genres of Euro Horror cinema‹including giallo films, named for the yellow covers of Italian pulp fiction, the S&M horror film, and cannibal and zombie films‹and develops a theory that explains their renewed appeal to audiences today. New Directions in National Cinemas 280 pp., 12 b&w illus. cloth 978-0-253-00648-6 $80.00 paper 978-0-253-00652-3 $27.00 ebook 978-0-253-00658-5 $22.99 More information at: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/806595 ------------------ Cinematic Flashes Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood Rashna Wadia Richards "This is a beautifully written book‹one marked not just by clarity, but by striking and evocative turns of phrase. It is extraordinary for the way Richards balances and intertwines traditional academic analysis with a more poetical logic." ‹Christian Keathley, author of Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees Cinematic Flashes challenges popular notions of a uniform Hollywood style by disclosing uncanny networks of incongruities, coincidences, and contingencies at the margins of the cinematic frame. In an agile demonstration of "cinephiliac" historiography, Rashna Wadia Richards extracts intriguing film fragments from their seemingly ordinary narratives in order to explore what these unexpected moments reveal about the studio era. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's preference for studying cultural fragments rather than composing grand narratives, this unorthodox history of the films of the studio system reveals how classical Hollywood emerges as a disjointed network of accidents, excesses, and coincidences. 280 pp., 26 b&w illus. cloth 978-0-253-00688-2 $85.00 paper 978-0-253-00692-9 $28.00 ebook 978-0-253-00700-1 $22.99 More information at: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/806770 Laura Baich Electronic Marketing Manager Indiana University Press 812-855-8287 | 812-856-0415 (fax) http://iupress.indiana.edu We're moving! Effective March 25 our new address will be: Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 E. 10th St. Bloomington, IN 47405-3907 ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org