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Welcome to Wallflower Press, home of independent specialist publishing across the full spectrum of cinema and the moving image. After eight years as leading specialist book publishers, Wallflower Press recently revealed its diversification into magazine production, with the publication of two quarterly magazines, Film & Festivals and Electric Sheep. To celebrate, we have organised a variety of special offers and launch events, including a recent presentation at the Tribeca Film Festival. To read a write-up of the night, please click here.
In addition, you can scroll down for details of our new and very recent books, plus our forthcoming titles page provides information about publications set to be published throughout 2008. You can find contents lists, notes on authors and contributors, press and academic reviews, and free sample chapters to download for all books listed below, as with all our titles, and links to related publications can be found at the foot of each book's webpage.
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NEW TITLES – sample chapters are available for all publications
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DOCUMENTARY DISPLAY By Keith Beattie |
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This updated second edition – still the only full-length study of Jan Svankmajer's work – explores the legacy of this legendary Czech surrealist filmmaker, a key influence on directors such as Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton, and one of the greatest animators in cinema history. |
Not all documentary films and videos are sober depictions of the real world.This accessible and informed study – with its focus on entertaining, popular, spectacular and sensational forms of nonfiction representation – makes an important contribution to theoretical analyses of documentary film and video. |
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CINEMA AND HISTORY
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GERMAN EXPRESSSIONIST CINEMA The World Of Light And Shadow By Ian Roberts June 2008 |
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Combining historical methods with insights from linguistics and film studies, Cinema and History discusses the historical resonance of films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Gangs of New York (2002) and United 93 (2006), and investigates the parameters and limitations of fiction film as a way to access history. |
Covering classics such as The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920) and Nosferatu (1922) as well as under-appreciated examples such as Asphalt (1929), this volume forms an essential introduction to one of cinema’s most historically important movements. |
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CITIES IN TRANSITION |
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FAMILY AFFAIR |
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This volume offers an ambitious collection of essays discussing the complex and enduring relationship between film and city, showing how early cinema, digital technology and changing urban geographies have all impacted upon ideas and representations of the modern city. |
Discussing a wide range of contemporary and classic films, from The Lonely Villa (1909), House of Strangers (1949) and Mary Poppins (1964) to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Superstar (1987), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and Brokeback Mountain (2005), this study addresses the nature of family values in cinema, and the ‘family’ nature of the Hollywood production system itself. |
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