Wallflower Press imprint: 134 books
Dekalog 4
On East Asian Filmmakers
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
East Asian cinema has become a worldwide phenonemon, and directors such as Park Chan-wook, Wong Kar Wai, and Takashi Miike have become household names. Dekalog 4: On East Asian Filmmakers solicits scholars from Japan, Hong Kong, Switzerland, North America, and the U.K. to offer unique readings of...
by Nicholas Rombes
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Does the digital era spell the death of cinema as we know it? Or is it merely heralding its rebirth? Are we witnessing the emergence of something entirely new? Cinema in the Digital Age examines the fate of cinema in this new era, paying special attention to the technologies that are reshaping film...
Hard to Swallow
Hard-Core Pornography on Screen
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Even in our increasingly sexualized culture hard-core pornography and the representation of explicit sex is still hard to swallow. This lively and provocative new collection of essays by leading scholars explores screen representations of pornography and sex in a variety of cultural, historical, and...
The Cinema of Werner Herzog
Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
Werner Herzog is renowned for pushing the boundaries of conventional cinema, especially those between the fictional and the factual, the fantastic and the real. The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth is the first study in twenty years devoted entirely to an analysis of Herzog's work....
The Cinema of Béla Tarr
The Circle Closes
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The Cinema of Béla Tarr is a critical analysis of the work of Hungary's most prominent and internationally best known film director, written by a scholar who has followed Bela Tarr's career through a close personal and professional relationship for more than twenty-five years. András Bálint Kovács...
Killer Images
Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the moving image is implicated in the imaginations...
Fast Forward
The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Cinema, the primary vehicle for storytelling in the twentieth century, is being reconfigured by new media in the twenty-first. Terms such as "worldbuilding," "virtual reality," and "transmedia" introduce new methods for constructing a screenplay and experiencing and sharing...
Flickering Empire
How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Flickering Empire tells the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907–1913). As entertaining as it is informative, Flickering Empire straddles the worlds of academic and popular nonfiction...
Documenting Cityscapes
Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
While film studies has traditionally treated the presence of the city in film as an urban text operating inside of a cinematic one, this approach has recently evolved into the study of cinema as a technology of place. From this perspective, Documenting Cityscapes explores the way the city has been...
Global Cinematic Cities
New Landscapes of Film and Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Cinema and audiovisual media are integral to the culture, economy and social experience of the contemporary global city. But how has the relationship between cinema and the urban environment evolved in the era of digital technology, new media and globalization? And what are the critical tools and...
The Cinema of Louis Malle
Transatlantic Auteur
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Arguably a pioneer of the French New Wave (with Ascenseur pour l’échafaud, 1957) Louis Malle went on to enjoy an acclaimed yet provocative and versatile transatlantic career. This collection of original essays proposes to reassess his richly eclectic and boldly subversive oeuvre and redress the...
Visions of the Apocalypse
Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2003
Visions of the Apocalypse examines the cinema's fascination with the prospect of nuclear and/or natural annihilation, as seen in such films as Saving Private Ryan, Bowling for Columbine, We Were Soldiers, Invasion U.S.A., The Last War, Tidal Wave, The Bed Sitting Room, The Last Days of Man on Earth...
The Cinema of Robert Altman
Hollywood Maverick
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In a controversial and tumultuous filmmaking career that spanned nearly fifty years, Robert Altman mocked, subverted, or otherwise refashioned Hollywood narrative and genre conventions. Altman's idiosyncratic vision and propensity for formal experimentation resulted in an uneven body of work: some...
The Children's Film
Genre, Nation, and Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Films for children and young people are a constant in the history of cinema, from its beginnings to the present day. This book serves as a comprehensive introduction to the children's film, examining its recurrent themes and ideologies, and common narrative and stylistic principles. Opening with a...