Now available from Indiana University Press: François Truffaut The Lost Secret Anne Gillain Translated by Alistair Fox For François Truffaut, the lost secret of cinematic art is in the ability to generate emotion and reveal repressed fantasies through cinematic representation. Available in English for the first time, Anne Gillain's François Truffaut: The Lost Secret is considered by many to be the best book on the interpretation of Truffaut's films. Taking a psycho-biographical approach, Gillain shows how Truffaut's creative impulse was anchored in his personal experience of a traumatic childhood that left him lonely and emotionally deprived. In a series of brilliant, nuanced readings of each of his films, she demonstrates how involuntary memories arising from Truffaut's childhood not only furnish a succession of motifs that are repeated from film to film, but also govern every aspect of his mise en scène and cinematic technique. 374 pp., 40 b&w illus. cloth 978-0-253-00834-3 $85.00 paper 978-0-253-00839-8 $30.00 ebook 978-0-253-00845-9 $24.99 More information at: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/806750 ------------------ Importing Asta Nielsen The International Film Star in the Making, 19101914 Edited by Martin Loiperdinger and Uli Jung Danish silent film actress Asta Nielsen became a brand name in movie houses around the globe in the early 1900s. Known simply as "The Asta," she exhibited both a subtle eroticism and a naturalistic style in her performances, which propelled her into international stardom. Nielsen's worldwide fame was made possible by film distributors adept at contracting long runs for films in cinemas around the world. This volume examines the role of these newly developed film distribution strategies and the resulting emergence of the international film star. KINtop Studies in Early Cinema Distributed for John Libbey Publishing Sales territory is limited to North America and Asia 400 pp., 20 color illus., 71 b&w illus. paper 9780-86196-708-7 $38.00 More information at: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/807125 ------------------ Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East Rhetoric of the Image Edited by Christiane Gruber and Sune Haugbolle This timely book examines the power and role of the image in modern Middle Eastern societies. The essays explore the role and function of image making to highlight the ways in which the images ³speak² and what visual languages mean for the construction of Islamic subjectivities, the distribution of power, and the formation of identity and belonging. Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East addresses aspects of the visual in the Islamic world, including the presentation of Islam on television; on the internet and other digital media; in banners, posters, murals, and graffiti; and in the satirical press, cartoons, and children¹s books. 376 pp., 22 color illus., 79 b&w illus. cloth 978-0-253-00884-8 $80.00 paper 978-0-253-00888-6 $28.00 ebook 978-0-253-00894-7 $23.99 More information at: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/806803 ------------------ Global Nollywood The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry Edited by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In 15 lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent and the rest of the world. Topics such as Nollywood as a theoretical construct, the development of a new, critical film language, and Nollywood¹s transformation outside of Nigeria reveal the broader implications of this film form as it travels and develops. Highlighting controversies surrounding commodification, globalization, and the development of the film industry on a wider scale, this volume gives sustained attention to Nollywood as a uniquely African cultural production. African Expressive Cultures 382 pp., 10 b&w illus. cloth 978-0-253-00923-4 $80.00 paper 978-0-253-00935-7 $30.00 ebook 978-0-253-00942-5 $24.99 More information at: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/806818 Laura Baich Electronic Marketing Manager Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 E. 10th St. Bloomington, IN 47405-3907 ---- 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]