Duke University Press announces the upcoming publication of *Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema <https://www.dukeupress.edu/bigger-than-life>* by Mary Ann Doane (March 2022). Doane's book examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator's sense of place, space, and orientation. Mary Ann Doane is Class of 1937 Professor of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of *The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive* and *Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis*. “Matching her earlier, masterful treatment of cinematic time, Mary Ann Doane here offers a brilliant probing of cinematic space. She explores cinema’s dynamic use of scale, from the magnification of the face in close-up to new screen technologies ranging from the iPhone to IMAX. Drawing on a range of film styles and practices, including early cinema, avant-garde experiments, and Shanghai cinema of the 1930s, Doane reveals how cinema has shaped a modern abstract and even dematerialized world.” — Tom Gunning, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago “Mary Ann Doane’s highly innovative, theoretically brilliant, and eloquently incisive consideration of the history of the filmic close-up and its relation to scale will undoubtedly make *Bigger Than Life* a field-changing work.” — Maggie Hennefeld, author of *Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes* I am attaching a final PDF review copy of *Bigger Than Life**.* *I'd be happy to send a print copy to you directly or to your chosen reviewer*. I will not be sending print copies to office addresses unless I hear back from you. I hope you'll decide to review this important new title that will be of interest to scholars and students in gender and sexuality, theory and philosophy, and film studies. Best wishes, Jess -- Jessica Covil-Manset Publicity Assistant Books Marketing Duke University Press ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the College of Communication and Information Sciences, the University of Alabama: https://cis.ua.edu