Wallflower Press imprint: 134 books
Trash Cinema
The Lure of the Low
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This volume explores the lower reaches of cinema and its paradoxical appeal. It looks at films from the B-movies of the 1930s to the mockbusters of today, and from the New York underground to the genre variations of Turkey's Yesilçam studios (and their YouTube afterlife). Critically examining the...
by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Despite its association with the broadly disparaged rape-revenge category, Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45 is today considered one of the most significant feminist cult films of the 1980s. Straddling mainstream, arthouse, and exploitation film contexts, Ms. 45 is a potent case study for cult film analysis....
Silent Cinema
Before the Pictures Got Small
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Since the spectacular success of The Artist (2011) there has been a resurgence of interest in silent cinema, and particularly in the lush and passionate screen dramas of the 1920s. This book offers an introduction to the cinema of this extraordinary period, outlining the development of the form between...
Sweet and Lowdown
Woody Allen's Cinema of Regret
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Over a career that has spanned more than six decades, Woody Allen has explored the emotion of regret as a response to the existentialist dilemma of not being someone else. Tracing this recurrent theme from his stand-up comedy routines and apprentice work through classics like Annie Hall, Manhattan,...
The Gangster Film
Fatal Success in American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
This volume examines the gangster film in its historical context with an emphasis on the ways the image of the gangster has adapted and changed as a result of socio-cultural circumstances. From its origins in Progressive-era reforms to its use as an indictment of corporate greed, the gangster film...
Disaster Movies
The Cinema of Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
Stephen Keane's history of the disaster genre offers a detailed analysis of films such as The Towering Inferno, Independence Day, Titanic, and The Day After Tomorrow. He looks at the ways in which disaster movies can be read in relation to both contextual considerations and the increasing commercial...
by Ian Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
In 1974, The Wall Street Journal called this movie "grotesque, sadistic, irrational, obscene, incompetent," while New York Magazine declared it "a catastrophe." Upon its initial release, Sam Peckinpah´s notorious work took a critical and commercial nosedive, but in later years,...
Latin Hitchcock
How Almodóvar, Amenábar, De la Iglesia, Del Toro, and Campanella Became Notorious
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
This study explores how five major directors—Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro Amenábar, Alex de la Iglesia, Guillermo del Toro, and Juan José Campanella—modeled their early careers on Hitchcock and his film aesthetics. In shadowing Hitchcock, their works embraced the global aspirations his movies...
by David Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
There is no denying that Meir Zarchi’s I Spit on Your Grave (1978) deserves its title as one of the most controversial films ever made. While many condemn it as misogynistic, others praise it for raising uncomfortable issues about sexual violence. While its reputation as a cult film has undoubtedly...
The Cinema of Michael Mann
Vice and Vindication
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Michael Mann is one of the most important American filmmakers of the past forty years. His films exhibit the existential concerns of art cinema, articulated through a conspicuous and recognizable visual style and yet integrated within classical Hollywood narrative and genre frameworks. Since his beginnings...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 1: Forms is an innovative collection of essays that discuss how different cinemas of the world tell stories. The book locates European, Asian, African, and Latin American films within their wider cultural and artistic frameworks, showing how storytelling forms in...
by Alessandra Santos
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo helped inaugurate the midnight movie phenomenon. Its success spawned The Holy Mountain, through interventions by John Lennon and Allen Klein. After a scandalous release and a 16-month midnight career, The Holy Mountain was relegated to the underground world of fan bootlegs...
Mediating Mobility
Visual Anthropology in the Age of Migration
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Images have become an integral part of the political regulation of migration: they help produce categories of legality versus illegality, foster stereotypes, and mobilize political convictions. Yet how are we to understand the relationship between these images and the political in the discourse surrounding...
Postmodernism and Film
Rethinking Hollywood's Aesthestics
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This volume focuses on postmodern film aesthetics and contemporary challenges to the aesthetic paradigms dominating analyses of Hollywood cinema. It explores conceptions of the classical, modernist, post-classical/new Hollywood, and their construction as linear history of style in which postmodernism...