Wallflower Press imprint: 134 books
The Cinema of Wes Anderson
Bringing Nostalgia to Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Wes Anderson is considered one of the most important directors of the post-Baby Boom generation, making films such as Rushmore (1998) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) in a style so distinctive that his films are often recognizable from a single frame. Through the travelogue The Darjeeling Limited (2007)...
Action Movies
The Cinema of Striking Back
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back is a study of action cinema, exploring the ethics and aesthetics of the genre with reference to its relatively short history. It moves from seminal classics like Bullitt (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971) through epoch-defining films like Rambo: First Blood Part...
by Daniel Frampton
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
Filmosophy is a provocative new manifesto for a radically philosophical way of understanding cinema. It coalesces twentieth-century ideas of film as thought (from Hugo Münsterberg to Gilles Deleuze) into a practical theory of "film-thinking," arguing that film style conveys poetic ideas...
Love in Motion
Erotic Relationships in Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This is a book about how film encountered love in the course of its history. It is also a book about the philosophy of love. Since Plato, erotic love has been praised for leading the soul to knowledge. The vast tradition of poetry devoted to love has emphasized that love is a feeling. Love in Motion...
Millennial Cinema
Memory in Global Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In spite of the overwhelming interest in the study of memory and trauma, no single volume has yet explored the centrality of memory to films of this era in a global context; this volume is the first anthology devoted exclusively to the study of memory in twenty-first-century cinema. Combining individual...
The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz
Impossible Cartographies
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
Raúl Ruiz, while considered one of the world's most significant filmmakers by several film critics, is yet to be the subject of any thorough engagement with his work in English. This volume sets out on this task by mapping, as fully as possible, Ruiz's cinematic trajectory across more than five decades...
The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov
Figures of Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
One of the last representatives of a brand of serious, high-art cinema, Alexander Sokurov has produced a massive oeuvre exploring issues such as history, power, memory, kinship, death, the human soul, and the responsibility of the artist. Through contextualization and close readings of each of his...
Liquid Metal
The Science Fiction Film Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Liquid Metal brings together 'seminal' essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. Eight distinct sections cover such topics as the cyborg in science fiction; the science fiction city; time travel and the primal scene; science fiction fandom; and the...
Avant-Garde Film
Forms, Themes and Passions
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2003
Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film at a level appropriate for undergraduate study. It covers the developments of experimental film-making since the modernist explosion in the 1920s in...
Melodrama
Genre, Style and Sensibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Melodrama: Genre, Style and Sensibility is designed as an accessible overview of one of the most popular genres at undergraduate Film Studies. The book identifies three distinct but connected concepts through which it is possible to make sense of melodrama; either as a genre, originating in European...
Feminist Film Studies
Writing the Woman into Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
An introduction to feminist film theory as a discourse from the early seventies to the present. McCabe traces the broad ranging theories produced by feminist film scholarship, from formalist readings and psychoanalytical approaches to debates initiated by cultural studies, race and queer theory.
Queer Cinema
Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys illustrates queer cinematic aesthetics by highlighting key films that emerged at historical turning points throughout the twentieth century. Barbara Mennel traces the representation of gays and lesbians from the sexual liberation movements of the...
Reality TV
Realism and Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2005
This book analyses new and hybrid genres of television including observational documentaries, talk shows, game shows, docu-soaps, dramatic reconstructions, law and order programming and 24/7 formats such as Big Brother and Survivor.
The Cinema of the Coen Brothers
Hard-Boiled Entertainments
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The films of the Coen brothers have become a contemporary cultural phenomenon. Highly acclaimed and commercially successful, over the years their movies have attracted increasingly larger audiences and spawned a subculture of dedicated fans. Shunning fame and celebrity, Ethan and Joel Coen remain...