'This series is tailor-made for a modular approach to film studies … an indispensable tool for both lecturer and students.’
Professor Paul Willemen, University of Ulster
‘Always wise and occasionally witty as well, the Short Cuts series offer fast-paced, concise, learned, readable and often fun studies of The Horror Genre, Disaster Movies, Science Fiction Cinema, The Star System and Early Soviet Cinema, with more topics on the way.’
John P. Garry III
‘The Wallflower Short Cuts series is academic in its orientation, but both Science Fiction Cinema and The Horror Genre are written with a lively and stimulating accessibility, while the probing intelligence and constantly surprising insights mark them out as significantly different from any of their predecessors.’
Barry Foreshaw, Starlog 15
‘These are handsome books, and the essays place the art of film in a larger context. The series must have been conceived with Film Studies courses in mind, but I recommend them to anyone who, like me, will never tire of interesting critical analyses of films, filmmakers and the world they inhabit.’
Blaine Kyllo, Geist
38 | THE FRENCH NEW
WAVE
A New Look
Naomi Greene
September 2007
144 pages
978-1-905674-12-1 (pbk) £12.99
37 | CRIME FILMS
Investigating
The Scene
Kirsten Moana Thompson
June 2007
144 pages
978-1-905674-13-8 (pbk) £12.99
36 | SHAKESPEARE ON FILM
Such Things as Dreams Are Made Of
Carolyn Jess-Cooke
June 2007
144 pages
978-1-905674-14-5 (pbk) £12.99
35 | SPECTATORSHIP
The Power of Looking On
Michele Aaron
January 2007
144 pages
978-1-905674-01-5 £12.99 (pbk)
34 | ROMANTIC COMEDY
Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre
Tamar Jeffers McDonald
January 2007
144 pages
978-1-905674-02-2 £12.99 (pbk)
33 | FILM GENRE
From Iconography to Ideology
Barry Keith Grant
January 2007
144 pages
978-1-904764-79-3 £12.99 (pbk)
32
| WAR CINEMA
Hollywood on the Front Line
Guy Westwell
2006
144 pages
978-1-904764-54-0 £12.99 (pbk)
31 | ITALIAN NEOREALISM
Rebuilding the Cinematic City
Mark Shiel
2006
152 pages
978-904764-48-9 £12.99 (pbk)
30 | THE NEW HOLLYWOOD
From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars
Peter Krämer
2005
144 pages
978-1-904764-58-8 £12.99 (pbk)
29
| DOCUMENTARY
The Margins of Reality
Paul Ward
2005
144 pages
978-1-904764-59-5 £12.99 (pbk)
28 | TEEN
MOVIES
American Youth on Screen
Timothy Shary
2005
144 pages
978-1-904764-49-6 £12.99 (pbk)
27
| FILM
NOIR
From Berlin to Sin City
Mark Bould
2005
144 pages
978-1-904764-50-2 £12.99 (pbk)
26 | THE MUSICAL
Race, Gender and Performance
Susan Smith
2005
144 pages
978-1–904764–37–3 £12.99 (pbk)
25 | NEW DIGITAL CINEMA
Reinventing the Moving Image
Holly Willis
2005
144 pages
978-1–904764–25–0 £12.99 (pbk)
24 | FILM PERFORMANCE
From Achievement to Appreciation
Andrew Klevan
2005
144 pages
978-1–904764–24–3 £12.99 (pbk)
23 | FEMINIST FILM STUDIES
Writing the Woman into Cinema
Janet McCabe
2004
144 pages
978-1–904764–03–8 £12.99 (pbk)
22 | MELODRAMA
Genre, Style, Sensibility
John Mercer and Martin Shingler
2004
144 pages
978-1–904764–02–1 £12.99 (pbk)
21 | MUSIC IN FILM
Soundtracks and Synergy
Pauline Reay
2004
144 pages
978-1–903364–65–9 £12.99 (pbk)
20 | EARLY CINEMA
From Factory Gate to Dream Factory
Simon Popple and Joe Kember
2004
144 pages
978- 1–903364–58–1 £12.99 (pbk)
19 | NEW GERMAN CINEMA
Images of a Generation
Julia Knight
2004
144 pages
978-1–903364–28–4 £12.99 (pbk)
18 | PRODUCTION DESIGN
Architects of the Screen
Jane Barnwell
2004
144 pages
978-1-903364-55-0 £12.99 (pbk)
17 | AVANT-GARDE FILM
Forms, Themes and Passions
Michael O’Pray
2003
144 pages
978-1-903364-56-7 £12.99 (pbk)
16 | FILM EDITING
The Art of the Expressive
Valerie Orpen
2003
144 pages
978-1-903364-53-6 £12.99 (pbk)
15 | BRITISH SOCIAL REALISM
From Documentary To Brit Grit
Samantha Lay
2002
144 pages
978-1-903364-41-3 £12.99 (pbk)
14 | WOMEN’S CINEMA
The Contested Screen
Alison Butler
2002
144 pages
978-1-903364-27-7 £12.99 (pbk)
13 | ANIMATION
Genre and Authorship
Paul Wells
2002
160 pages
978-1-903364-20-8 £12.99 (pbk)
12 | SCENARIO
The Craft of Screenwriting
Tudor Gates
2002
144 pages
978-1-903364-26-0 £12.99 (pbk)
11 | NEW CHINESE CINEMA
Challenging Representations
Sheila Cornelius with Ian Haydn Smith
2001
144 pages
978-1-903364-13-0 £12.99 (pbk)
10 | MISE-EN-SCÉNE
Film Style and Interpretation
John Gibbs
2001
128 pages
978-1-903364-06-2 £12.99 (pbk)
09 | COSTUME AND CINEMA
Dress Codes in Popular Film
Sarah Street
2001
128 pages
978-1-903364-18-5 £12.99 (pbk)
08 | PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CINEMA
The Play of Shadows
Vicky Lebeau
2001
144 pages
978-1-903364-19-2 £12.99 (pbk)
07 | THE WESTERN GENRE
From Lordsburg to Big Whiskey
John Saunders
2001
144 pages
978-1-903364-12-3 £12.99 (pbk)
06 | DISASTER MOVIES (2nd edition)
The Cinema of Catastrophe
Stephen Keane
2001
144 pages
978-1-905674-03-9 £12.99 (pbk)
05 | READING HOLLYWOOD
Spaces and Meanings in American Film
Deborah Thomas
2001
144 pages
978-1-903364-01-7 £12.99 (pbk)
04 | EARLY SOVIET CINEMA
Innovation, Ideology and Propaganda
David Gillespie
2000
128 pages
978-1-903364-04-8 £12.99 (pbk)
03 | SCIENCE FICTION CINEMA
From Outerspace to Cyberspace
Geoff King and Tanya Krzywinska
2000
144 pages
978-1-903364-03-1 £12.99 (pbk)
02 | THE STAR SYSTEM
Hollywood’s Production of Popular Identities
Paul McDonald
2000
144 pages
978-1-903364-02-4 £12.99 (pbk)
01 | THE HORROR GENRE
From Beelzebub to Blair Witch
Paul Wells
2000
144 pages
978-1-903364-00-0 £12.99 (pbk)
