Wallflower Press imprint: 134 books
The Cinema of Aki Kaurismäki
Contrarian Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Aki Kaurismäki is an enigma, an eminent auteur who claims his films are a joke. Since 1983, Kaurismäki has produced classically-styled films filled with cinephilic references to film history. He has earned an international art-house audience and many prizes, influencing such directors as Jim Jarmusch,...
The Cinema of Clint Eastwood
Chronicles of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
He became a movie star playing The Man With No Name, and today his name is known around the world. Measured by longevity, productivity, and profits, Clint Eastwood is the most successful actor-director-producer in American film history. This book examines the major elements of his career, focusing...
Reconstructing Strangelove
Inside Stanley Kubrick's "Nightmare Comedy"
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
During his career Stanley Kubrick became renowned for undertaking lengthy and exhaustive research prior to the production of all his films. In the lead-up to what would eventually become Dr. Strangelove (1964), Kubrick read voraciously and amassed a substantial library of works on the nuclear age....
Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century
Images, Memory, and the Ethics of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century, a large number of films were produced in Europe, Israel, the United States, and elsewhere addressing the historical reality and the legacy of the Holocaust. Contemporary Holocaust cinema exists at the intersection of national cultural traditions,...
by Matt Hills
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
More than just a box office flop that resurrected itself in the midnight movie circuit, Blade Runner (1982) achieved extraordinary cult status through video, laserdisc, and a five-disc DVD collector's set. Blade Runner has become a network of variant texts and fan speculations-a franchise created...
Heritage Film
Nation, Genre, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical debates around the heritage film, from its controversial status in British cinema of the 1980s to its expansion into a versatile international genre in the 1990s and 2000s. This study explores the heritage film in light of questions...
Documents of Utopia
The Politics of Experimental Documentary
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
This timely volume discusses the experimental documentary projects of some of the most significant artists working in the world today: Hito Steyerl, Joachim Koester, Tacita Dean, Matthew Buckingham, Zoe Leonard, Jean-Luc Moulène, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead, and Anri...
I-Docs
The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The history of documentary has been one of adaptation and change, as docu-mentarists have harnessed the affordances of emerging technology. In the last decade interactive documentaries (i-docs) have become established as a new field of practice within non-fiction storytelling. Their various incarnations...
Underground U.S.A.
Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2003
Whether defined by the carnivalesque excesses of Troma studios (The Toxic Avenger), the arthouse erotica of Radley Metzger and Doris Wishman, or the narrative experimentations of Abel Ferrara, Melvin Van Peebles, Jack Smith, or Harmony Korine, underground cinema has achieved an important position...
Peep Shows
Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
From mediations on explicit imagery and profiles of prominent performers to discussions of national nudities and the titillating thrills of new technologies, cine-erotica has become a significant and subversive category of contemporary film, media, and cultural studies.
Expanding on recent...
The New Hollywood
From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2006
On December 8, 1967 Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and announced, "The New Cinema: Violence
Sex
Art." The following decade has long been celebrated as a golden age in American film history. In this innovative study, Peter Krämer offers a systematic discussion of the...
The Cinema of Richard Linklater
Walk, Don't Run
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
From Slacker (1991) to The School of Rock (2003), from Before Sunrise (1995) to Before Sunset (2004), from the walking and talking of his no/low-budget American independent films to conversing with the philosophical traditions of the European art house, Richard Linklater's films are some of the most...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Neo-noir knows its past. It knows the rules of the game – and how to break them. From Point Blank (1998) to Oldboy (2003), from Get Carter (2000) to 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004), from Catherine Tramell to Max Payne, neo-noir is a transnational global phenomenon. This wide-ranging collection maps...
The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh
Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The industry's only director-cinematographer-screenwriter-producer-actor-editor, Steven Soderbergh is contemporary Hollywood's most innovative and prolific filmmaker. A Palme d'or and Academy Award-winner, Soderbergh has directed nearly thirty films, including political provocations, digital experiments,...