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CINEMA IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Nicholas Rombes
Does the digital era spell the death of cinema
as we know it, or its rebirth? Or the emergence
of something else entirely? Cinema in the
Digital Age examines the fate of cinema in this
new era, paying special attention not only to
the technologies that are reshaping film, but to
the cultural meaning of those technologies.
Examining Festen (1998), The Blair Witch Project
(1999), Timecode (2000), Russian Ark (2002), The
Ring (2002) and others, this volume explores how
such films are haunted by their own analogue
pasts, and suggests that their signature element
is not digital perfection but rather deliberate
imperfections that take the form of blurry or
pixilated images, shaky camera work and other
elements that remind viewers that human beings
made these films. Weaving together a rich
variety of sources,Cinema in the Digital Age is
a deeply humanistic look at the meaning of
cinematic images in the era of digital perfection.
April 2009
224 pages
978-1-905674-85-5 (pbk)£16.99£11.89 with 30% Spring Sale discount
about the author
Nicholas Rombes is Chair of the English
Department at the University of Detroit Mercy.
He is the author of The Ramones (2005) and
editor of New Punk Cinema (2005), as well as a
writer of numerous articles on cinema and culture.
SCENES OF LOVE AND MURDER
Renoir, Film and Philosophy
Colin Davis
Jean Renoir (1894-1979) has long been considered
one of the greatest directors in the history of
cinema. Films such as La Grande Illusion (1937)
and La Règle du jeu (1939) rank amongst the
masterpieces of film art. This book examines his
films from the 1930s in the light of recent
developments in philosophical film criticism.
With reference to thinkers such as Aristotle,
Wittgenstein, Girard, Derrida and Cavell, it
argues that Renoir's work engages with and
elucidates some of the great philosophical
questions. In particular the films are shown to
reflect on the nature of murder and its links
with desire, community, ethics and the mystery
of other minds. Although the 1930s end for
Renoir in political disillusionment, his final
film of the decade, La Règle du jeu, intimates a
new accommodation with the enigma of the unknown
other. It points toward the possibility of
welcoming what remains alien to the self rather than violently eradicating it.
April 2009224 pages
978-1-905674-63-3 (pbk)£16.99£11.89 with 30% Spring Sale discount
about the author
Colin Davis is Professor of French at Royal
Holloway, University of London. His books
include Ethical Issues in Twentieth-Century
French Fiction: Killing the Other (2000), After
Poststructuralism: Reading Stories and Theory
(2004) and Haunted Subjects: Deconstruction,
Psychoanalysis and the Return of the Dead (2007).
THE HITCHCOCK ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY
Selected Essays from Volumes 10-15
Sidney Gottlieb
For over 15 years, the Hitchcock Annual has
published groundbreaking and authoritative
scholarship on Hitchcock, and has become the
journal of record for Hitchcock studies.
Wallflower Press is proud to announce that we
will be taking on the publication of this
prestigious volume from 2009. Initiating this
new relationship is The Hitchcock Annual
Anthology, featuring contributions from such
leading critics as Charles Barr, Thomas
Elsaesser, Bill Krohn, Mark Rappaport, Michael
Walker, Robin Wood and Slavoj Zizek, and
including essays on the full range of
Hitchcock's work, from the lesser-known silents
to his late American masterpieces, overviews of
Hitchcock criticism and interviews and discussions among collaborators.
April 2009
224 pages
978-1-905674-95-4 (pbk)£16.99£11.89 with 30% Spring Sale discount
about the author
Sidney Gottlieb is Professor of Media Studies
and Digital Culture at Sacred Heart University.
He is the editor of Hitchcock on Hitchcock:
Selected Writings and Interviews (1997) and
Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews (2003), and
co-editor of Framing Hitchcock (2002). Richard
Allen is Professor and Chair of Cinema Studies
at New York University. He is the author of
Hitchcock's Romantic Irony (2007) and co-editor
of Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays (1999) and
Hitchcock: Past and Future (2003).
APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
James Quandt (ed.)
Thai filmmaker Apichatpong ?Joe? Weerasethakul
is widely praised as one of the central figures
in contemporary cinema. Trained as a visual
artist in the US, he has stunned the film world
with five innovative and dreamlike features made
since the year 2000 ? including award-winning
films such as Blissfully Yours (2002),Tropical
Malady (2004) and Syndromes and a Century
(2006). James Quandt, the editor of this first
English-language book on Weerasethakul, is one
of the foremost film critics and curators
working in North America today. Further
contributors include Benedict Anderson, Tony
Rayns, Kong Rithdee and actress Tilda Swinton.
Published by the Austrian Film Museum
April 2009
200 pages
978-3-901644-31-3 (pbk)£15.99£11.19 with 30% Spring Sale discount
about the editor
James Quandt is Senior Programmer at
Cinematheque Ontario. He has written extensively
about film and edited books on Robert Bresson,
Kon Ichikawa and Shohei Imamura, among others.
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