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NEW TITLES

46 | FILM VIOLENCE

History, Ideology, Genre

James Kendrick
December 2009

A concise and accessible introduction to the role violence has played in the cinema from the silent era to the present.

48 | NEW KOREAN CINEMA

Breaking the Waves

Darcy Paquet
December 2009

New Korean Cinema charts the dramatic transformation of South Korea's film industry from the democratisation movement of the late 1980s to the ascent of a new generation of directors in the 2000s.    

Electric Sheep magazine: Winter 2009

I Fought the Law


December 2009

The winter 09 issue of Electric Sheep looks at what makes a cinematic outlaw: read about the misdeeds of low-life gangsters, gentlemen thieves, deadly females, modern terrorists, cop killers and vigilantes, bikers and banned filmmakers.

44 | FANTASY CINEMA

Impossible Worlds on Screen

David Butler
October 2009

'This introduction's multifaceted approach provides a model for future scholars and students of this important film genre.'
- Joshua David Bellin, La Roche College    

POST-CLASSICAL CINEMA

An International Poetics of Film Narration

Eleftheria Thanouli
October 2009

Does the term ‘post-classical' have any relevance in current debates on contemporary cinema?

NEO-NOIR

Mark Bould, Kathrina Glitre and Greg Tuck (eds)
October 2009

Neo-noir knows its past. It knows the rules of the game - and how to break them.

The Personal Camera

Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film

Laura Rascaroli
October 2009

'This study forces us to rethink many old assumptions about subjectivity, documentary and the image, and brings a thoughtful analysis to how the essay film works as a narrative and expositional device.'
- Stella Bruzzi, University of Warwick

THE CINEMA OF SALLY POTTER

A Politics of Love

Sophie Mayer
July 2009

'A labour of love, which argues powerfully for the political urgency of Potter's films and their capacity to transform our perception of the world.' – Libby Saxton, Queen Mary, University of London