National Cinema

National Cinema		Asian Cinema: a Field Guide Tom Vick Harper Collins, 2008 $47.99 pb Asian cinema has never been more popular than it is today. In recent years, films such as Spirited Away, Hero, Kung Fu Hustle, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon have made surprising inroads into the American box office. Directors such as Jim Jarmusch, with Ghost Dog, and Quentin Tarantino, with Kill Bill Vols. I and II, have paid unabashed tribute to the Asian directors who have influenced them. On the world festival circuit, Asian films regularly win prestigious awards and are presented at film festivals from Sundance to Cannes. This is the first book to provide a complete overview of the past, present, and future of the world's most dynamic and influential filmmaking region. Over 300 films from China, India, Japan, Korea, Iran, and Taiwan, as well as the emerging films of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka, are all included here.
National Cinema		Bollywood Posters Jerry Pinto Thames & Hudson, 2008 $49.95 pb On the streets of the vibrant and anarchic city of Mumbai, the film poster is a familiar splash of colour. It is an invitation to the pleasures of Bollywood, the world’s largest film industry. This most democratic of art forms meets one of the world’s most exciting cinema industries and the result is an explosion of colour, form and typography. Bollywood’s film posters have had a long and glorious history that is only now being recognized and noted, and is brilliantly celebrated here in this lavish volume. Bollywood Posters is a must-have for film buffs, graphic designers and art-lovers.
National Cinema		The Bollywood Reader Rajinder Dudrah & Jigna Desai Open University Press, 2008 $58.00 pb What is Bollywood cinema and how does it operate as an industry? Who are the audiences of Bollywood cinema? These are just some of the questions addressed in this lively and fascinating guide to the cultural, social and political significance of popular Hindi cinema, which outlines the history and structure of the Bombay film industry, and its impact on global popular culture. Including a wide-ranging selection of essays from key voices in the field, the Reader charts the development of the scholarship on popular Hindi cinema, with an emphasis on understanding the relationship between cinema and colonialism, nationalism, and globalization.
National Cinema		Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City Ranjani Mazmudan University of Minnesota Press, 2007 $43.95 pb This is an articulation of urban life in entirely new terms, specifically, the place of the village in the imaginary constitution of anti-colonial nationalism which gave way to a greater acknowledgment, even centrality, of urban space. Bombay Cinema takes the reader on an inventive journey through a cinematic city of mass crowds, violence, fashion, architectural fantasies, and subcultural identities. Moving through the world of gangsters and vamps, families and drifters, and heroes and villains, Bombay Cinema explores an urban landscape marked by industrial decline, civic crisis, working-class disenchantment, and diverse street life. Combining the anecdotal with the theoretical, the philosophical with the political, and the textual with the historical, Bombay Cinema leads the reader into the heart of the urban labyrinth in India, revising and deepening our understanding of both the city and its cinema.
National Cinema		Brazilian National Cinema Lisa Shaw & Stephanie Dennison Routledge, 2007 $56.00 pb Brazilian cinema is one of the most influential national cinemas in Latin America and this wide-ranging study traces the evolution of Brazilian film from the silent era to the present day, including detailed studies of more recent international box-office hits, such as Central Station (1998) and City of God (2002). Brazilian National Cinema gives due importance to traditionally overlooked aspects of Brazilian cinema, such as popular genres, ranging from musical comedies (the chanchada) to soft-core porn films (the pornochanchada) and horror films, and also provides a fresh approach to the internationally acclaimed avant-garde Cinema Novo of the 1960s. Shaw and Dennison apply recent theories on stardom, particularly relating to issues of ethnicity, race and gender, to both well-known Brazilian performers, such as Carmen Miranda and Sonia Braga, and lesser known domestic icons, such as the Afro-Brazilian comic actor, Grande Otelo (Big Othello), and the uberblonde children’s TV and film star, and media mogul, Xuxa. This timely addition to the National Cinemas series provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between Brazilian cinema and issues of national and cultural identity.
National Cinema		The British ‘B’ Film Steve Chibnall & Brian McFarlane BFI, 2009 $49.95 pb There is more to cinema than its main attractions. 'What's on with it?' was a frequent question asked by cinemagoers before the 1970s, as they tried to decide which 'A' film to see - and the 'supporting feature' often made the difference in ticket sales. These 'B' films were shown as curtain-raisers on double-bill programmes in the days before television led to major changes in film exhibition. But while they are fondly remembered by audiences, and were a central component of the British film industry, supporting films have largely been neglected by film critics and historians. The British 'B' Film is the first book to provide an in-depth account of what 'B' films were like, how they came to be made, and how they were received. The careers of many notable actors, directors and other film-makers were launched in these unpretentious but often very entertaining films.
National Cinema		British National Cinema Sarah Street Routledge, 2^nd ed., 2008 $59.95pb With films as diverse as Bhaji on the Beach, The Dam Busters, Trainspotting, The Draughtsman's Contract, Prick Up Your Ears, Ratcatcher, This Is England and Atonement, British cinema has produced wide-ranging notions of British culture, identity and nationhood. This is a comprehensive introduction to the British film industry within an economic, political and social context. Describing the development of the British film industry, from the Lumière brothers' first screening in London in 1896 through to the dominance of Hollywood and the severe financial crises which affected Goldcrest, Handmade Films and Palace Pictures in the late 1980s and 1990s, and the formation of the UK Film Council, Sarah Street explores the relationship between British cinema and British society. This expanded and fully revised second edition includes a new chapter on contemporary British cinema, as well as selective references to recent scholarship on British film.
National Cinema		Cinema and Landscape: Film, Nation and Cultural Geography Graeme Harper & Jonathan Rayner(eds) Intellect Books, 2010 $44.95pb While the consideration of landscape on film has been growing in currency over the past few years, as yet no single publication has attempted to embrace the multitude of nationalities, cinematic examples and critical approaches that Cinema and Landscape encompasses. This volume both extends the existing field of film studies and stakes claims to overlapping, contested territories in the arts and humanities and the social sciences. The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. After all, what is the French New Wave without Paris? What are the films of Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee, without New York? Cinema and Landscape frames up contemporary film landscapes across the world, in a concentrated examination and interrogation of screen aesthetics and national ideology, film form and cultural geography, cinematic representation and the human environment.
National Cinema		The Cinema Of Small Nations Duncan J. Petrie (ed) Edinburgh University Press, 2008 $52.95 pb This book is the first major analysis of small national cinemas, comprising twelve case studies of small national – and sub national – cinemas from around the world. Written by an array of distinguished and emerging scholars, each of the case studies provides a detailed analysis of the particular cinema in question, with an emphasis on the last decade, considering both institutional and textual issues relevant to the national dimension of each cinema.
National Cinema		Celluloid ANZACS: The Great War Through Australian Cinema Daniel Reynaud Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007 $39.95 pb Traces the evolving images of Anzacs from its origins as a derivative of British Military Myth to the controversial early days of its Australian identity in the interwar years, when the legend adopted the comic and lean bushman as its archetypical hero, and then to its depiction in the nationalistic fervour of the 1980s when the legend finally acquired its exclusively Australian identity and sharp anti-British edge.
National Cinema		Cinema & Sensation: French Film & the Art of Transgression Martine Beugnet Edinburgh University Press, 2007 $140.00 hb Within French cinema, a specific sense of momentum comes from the release, in close succession, of a series of films that betray a characteristic awareness of cinema’s sensory impact. These include: Adieu; A ma soeur; Baise-moi; Beau Travail; La Blessure; La Captive; Dans ma peau; Demonlover; L’Humanité; L’Intrus; Les Invisibles; Lady Chatterley; Leçons de ténèbres; Romance; Sombre; Tiresia; Trouble Every Day; Twentynine Palms; Vendredi soir; La Vie nouvelle; Wild Side & Zidane. Martine Beugnet shows how these films offer alternative approaches to questions that are at the heart of the most burning socio-cultural debates.
National Cinema		Cinema at the Periphery Iordana, Vidal & Jones (eds) Wayne State University Press, 2010 $69.95 pb This title highlights the industries, markets, identities, and histories that distinguish cinema beyond the traditional hubs of mainstream Western cinema. From Iceland to Iran, from Singapore to Scotland, a growing intellectual and cultural wave of production is taking cinema beyond the borders of its place of origin - exploring faraway places, interacting with barely known peoples, and making new localities imaginable. In these films, previously entrenched spatial divisions no longer function as firmly fixed grid coordinates, the hierarchical position of place as 'centre' is subverted, and new forms of representation become possible. In "Cinema at the Periphery", editors Dina Iordanova, David Martin-Jones, and Belen Vidal assemble criticism that explores issues of the periphery, including questions of transnationality, place, space, passage, and migration. Cinema at the Periphery examines the periphery in terms of locations, practices, methods, and themes. It includes geographic case studies of small national cinemas located at the global margins, like New Zealand and Scotland, but also of filmmaking that comes from peripheral cultures, like Palestinian 'stateless' cinema, Australian Aboriginal films, and cinema from Quebec.
National Cinema		The Cinema Of Australia & New Zealand Geoff Mayer (ed) Wallflower Press, 2007 $49.95 pb From The Story of the Kelly Gang in 1906 to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Australia and New Zealand have made a unique impact on international cinema. This book celebrates the commercially successful narrative feature films produced as well as key documentaries, shorts, and independent films. It also invokes issues involving national identity, race, history, and the ability of two small film cultures to survive the economic and cultural threat of Hollywood. Chapters on well known films and directors, such as The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir, 1982), The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993), Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001), and Rabbit Proof Fence (Philip Noyce, 2002), are included with less popular but equally important films and filmmakers, such as Jedda (Charles Chauvel, 1955) They're a Weird Mob (Michael Powell, 1966), Vigil (Vincent Ward, 1984) and The Goddess of 1967 (Clara Law, 2000).
National Cinema		The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East Colin Gonul Donmez Wallflower Press, 2007 $55.00 pb Contains twenty-four essays, each concerning an individual film from Morocco all the way to Iran. The volume explores not only the established film cultures of Turkey, Egypt, and Israel, but also the nascent cinemas of Palestine and Syria. Selected films include Cairo Station (Egypt, 1958), The Runner (Iran, 1989), Once Upon a Time, Beriut (Lebanon, 1994), Ten (Iran, 2002), and Uzak (Turkey, 2003). With a preface by Cannes Palme d'Or-winning director Abbas Kiarostami, The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East unveils a diverse region of filmmaking. 288p.
National Cinema		Cinema Taiwan: Politics Popularity & State of the Arts Darrell William Davis(ed) Routledge, 2007 $73.00 pb Following the recent success of Taiwanese film directors, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film is raising its profile in contemporary cinema. This collection presents an exciting and ambitious foray into the cultural politics of contemporary Taiwan film that goes beyond the auteurist mode, the nation-state argument and vestiges of the New Cinema. Cinema Taiwan considers the complex problems of popularity, conflicts between trans-national capital and local practice, non-fiction and independent filmmaking as emerging modes of address, and new possibilities of forging vibrant film cultures embedded in national (identity) politics, gender/sexuality and community activism. Insightful and challenging, the essays in this collection will attract attention to a globally significant field of cultural production and will appeal to readers from the areas of film studies, cultural studies and Chinese culture and society. 236p.
National Cinema		The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film Tamara L. Falicov Wallflower Press 2007 $49.95 pb The Cinematic Tango explores the cultural politics of over sixty years of filmmaking in Argentina. From the 1940s when film was a successful studio product to the 1980s post-dictatorship period when national cinema was utilized as a public relations tool, Falicov explores how national culture on film has been shaped, articulated, and debated. She provides in-depth analysis of Argentina's contemporary period, when financial incentives led to the production of commercial "blockbusters" as well as new opportunities for first-time directors, sparking a surge of low-budget, independent filmmaking.
National Cinema		Contemporary British Cinema: From Heritage to Horror James Leggott Wallflower Press, 2008 $39.95 pb This volume offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of British film culture from 1997 to the present. Using a wide range of films from the Blair era and beyond as case studies& from "Notting Hill" (1999) and "Billy Elliot "(2000) to "28 Days Later" (2002) and "The Queen" (2006) & it examines the ways in which recent British filmmaking might be regarded as distinctive, relevant and successful.
National Cinema		The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry Paul McDonald & Janet Wasko (eds) Blackwell, 2007 $57.95 pb This collection of essays by leading scholars examines the state of the U.S. film industry, from the 1980s to the present day. It includes important discussions of the industry’s labour and star systems, as well as intellectual property and state relations; and it also considers the role of independent producers, the global marketplace for Hollywood product, corporate changes, and various new media windows, including video, DVD to cable, satellite, and online channels of delivery. Bringing together an international team of leading film scholars it offers a balanced and fresh approach to contemporary Hollywood.
National Cinema		The Devil You Dance With: Film Culture in the New South Africa Audrey McCluskey University of Illinois Press, 2009 $39.95pb South African film culture, like so much of its public life, has undergone a tremendous transformation during its first decade of democracy. Filmmakers, once in exile, banned, or severely restricted, have returned home; subjects once outlawed by the apparatchiks of apartheid are now fair game; and a new crop of insurgent filmmakers are coming to the fore. This extraordinary volume presents twenty-five in-depth interviews with established and emerging South African filmmakers. The collection includes a biographical profile of each filmmaker, as well an introductory essay.
National Cinema		Diasporas of Australian Cinema Catherine Simpson & Renate Murawska & Anthony Lambert (eds) Intellect Books, 2009 $59.95pb This volume is the first to focus exclusively on diasporic filmmaking and the rich cultural diversity within Australian cinema, and it contains previously unpublished articles by some of the foremost experts on Australian cinema. Contributors discuss a variety of contemporary and historical filmmaking, encompassing documentaries, features and short films. A number of key feature films are discussed including Forty Thousand Horsemen, Silver City, Wog Boy, Head On, Russian Doll, Japanese Story, and Lucky Miles. Opening with a comprehensive chapter that introduces the organizing concept of this volume, diasporic hybridity, the essays go on to explore migration, Asian-Australian subjectivity, cross-cultural romance, Islamic-Australian identity and “wogsploitation” comedy. It also features a comprehensive filmography listing Australian features, documentaries and shorts with significant diasporic content.
National Cinema		East Asian Cinemas: Exploring Transnational Connections on Film Leon Hunt & Leung Wing-Fai I. B. Tauris, 2008 $45.00 pb Cinemas from East Asia are among the most exciting and influential in the world. They are attracting popular and critical attention on a global scale, with films from the region circulating as art house, cult, blockbuster and 'extreme' cinema, or as Hollywood remakes. This book explores developments in the global popularity of East Asian cinema, from Chinese martial arts, through Japanese horror, to the burgeoning new Korean cinema, with particular emphasis on crossovers, remakes, hybrids and co-productions. It examines changing cinematic traditions in Asia alongside the 'Asianisation' of western cinema. It explores the dialogue not only between 'East' and 'West', but between different cinemas in the Asia Pacific.
National Cinema		The Finest Years: British Cinema of the 40s Charles Drazin I.B. Tauris, 2007 $48.00 pb Now in paperback with a new preface, this is a comprehensive chronicle of the British cinema's seminal 1940s, when many bold and enduring classics of world cinema were made, including Brief Encounter, The Red Shoes and The Third Man. Drazin traces British cinema's fortunes through the characters and aspirations of some of its leading personalities, including Carol Reed, David Lean, Michael Balcon and Humphrey Jennings. He also introduces readers to some lesser known, equally significant figures, like Robert Hamer, the maverick director of Kind Hearts and Coronets, and Filippo Del Giudice, flamboyant Italian genius.
National Cinema		The French New Wave: critical landmarks Graham & Vincendeau (eds.) BFI, 2^nd ed., 2009 $49.95pb This is a new and expanded edition of a classic anthology of writings by critics and filmmakers associated with the 'nouvelle vague'. The new edition, published to mark the 40th anniversary of the New Wave, features all the articles from the first edition plus a new translation of Truffaut's 'Une Certaine Tendance du Cinema Francais' (A Certain Trend in French Cinema). In addition, the collection includes articles by and interviews with Bazin, Godard, Chabrol and others that helped to shape contemporary debates about the history, aesthetics and practice of cinema.
National Cinema		The Golden Age Of Cinema: Hollywood 1929-1945 Richard Jewell Blackwell, 2007 $47.95 pb This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and exciting period in American film, a time when the studio system was at its peak and movies played a critical role in elevating the spirits of the public. Jewell offers a highly readable yet deeply informed account of the economics, technology, censorship, style, genres, stars and history of Hollywood during its "classical" era, 1929-1945. Jewell analyses many of the seminal films from the period, from The Wizard of Oz to Grand Hotel to Gone with the Wind, considering the impact they had then and still have today. He also tackles the shaping forces of the period: the business practices of the industry, technological developments, censorship restraints, narrative strategies, evolution of genres, and the stars and the star system.
National Cinema		The Gorgon’s Gaze: German Cinema, Expressionism and the Image of Horror Paul Coates Cambridge University Press, 2008 $39.95pb The Gorgon's Gaze is an interdisciplinary study of recurrent themes in German cinema as it has developed since the early twentieth century. Focusing on pertinent films of the pre- and post-World War II eras, Paul Coates explores the nature of expressionism, which is generally agreed to have ended with the advent of sound cinema, and its persistence in the styles of such modern masters of Film noir as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman. In considering the possibility of homologies between the necessary silence of pre-sound cinema and the widespread modernist aspiration to an aesthetic of silence, Coates relates theories of the sublime, the uncanny, and the monstrous to his subject. He also reflects upon problems of representability and the morality of representation of events that took place during the Nazi era.
National Cinema		A History of Italian Cinema Peter Bondanella Continuum, 2009 $59.95pb Italian Cinema is the only complete and up-to-date book on the subject available anywhere, in any language. New coverage from 1989 to the present includes the Italian horror-film genre, Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful), Bernardo Bertolucci (Stealing Beauty), Franco Zeffirelli (Tea with Mussolini), Michael Radford (The Postman [Il postino]), Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo), Maurizio Nichetti (The Icicle Thief), Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, The Starmaker), and much more. This book has been extensively revised and updated, including all-new notes, bibliography, plus video/ DVD information.
National Cinema		A History of The New Zealand Fiction Feature Film Bruce Babington Manchester University Press, 2007 $44.95 pb The only comprehensive account of the New Zealand feature film from its beginnings to the present. Countering tendencies to think of New Zealand film as beginning in the 1970s, Bruce Babington discloses a longer saga showing how the present, for all its difference, can only be understood through the past. The book manages the feat of providing a reference map of the cinema, its genres, and its preoccupations, while at the same time giving fascinating detailed analysis of important texts. A History of the New Zealand Fiction Feature Film is essential reading for all students and followers of New Zealand cinema as well as those interested in the local post-colonial culture and its products.
National Cinema		Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency Ashish Rajadhyaksha Indiana University Press, 2009 $44.95 pb A landmark in the theoretical and historical scholarship on Indian cinema by a preeminent film critic. This book offers new approaches to questions of spectatorship, nationalism, and the public sphere and considers the future of cinema in the context of Indian politics and in the 'post-celluloid' era.
National Cinema		Italian Neo-Realism: Rebuilding The Cinematic City Mark Sheil Wallflower Press, 2006 $35.00 pb Italian Neorealism is a valuable introduction to one of the most influential of film movements. Exploring the roots and causes of neorealism, particularly the effects of the Second World War, as well as its politics and style, Mark Shiel examines the portrayal of the city and the legacy left by filmmakers such as Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti. Films studied include Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), The Bicycle Thief (1948), and Umberto D. (1952).
National Cinema		Japanese Cinema Stuart Galbraith Taschen, 2009 $70.00 pb Until recently, the western world has viewed Japanese cinema through a very narrow prism. For years, Westerners interested in Japanese film have had to content themselves with the collected works of Akira Kurosawa, a spotty sampling of films by Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujiro Ozu, gobs of anime, and badly dubbed monster movies. Many great filmmakers like Mikio Naruse and Keisuke Kinoshita have remained unknown in the West, and musicals and comedies are hardly known outside Asia. This volume will help set the record straight, illustrating the history of Japanese cinema with vivid posters and stunning photography.
National Cinema		Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War & Beyond Lina Khatib I.B. Tauris, 2008 $48.00pb Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 1975 have been about this war. Lina Khatib takes 1975 Beirut as her starting point, and takes us right through to today for this, the first major book on Lebanese cinema and its links with politics and national identity. She examines how Lebanon is imagined in such films as Jocelyn Saab's "Once Upon a Time, Beirut", Ghassan Salhab's "Terra Incognita", and Ziad Doueiri's "West Beirut". In so doing, she re-examines the importance of cinema to the national imagination. Also, and using interviews with the current generation of Lebanese filmmakers, she uncovers how in the Lebanese context cinema can both construct and communicate a national identity and thereby opens up new perspectives on the socio-political role of cinema in the Arab world.
National Cinema		Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema Santiago Fouz-Hernandez & Alfredo Exposito Martinez I.B. Tauris, 2007 $48.00 pb In post-Franco Spain, a re-shaping of notions of the masculine has been under way for some time. The authors of Live Flesh demonstrate how contemporary Spanish films have contributed to this process. They do so by visualizing the ways in which Spanish men have been abandoning old self images and adopting new ones, and they explain and explore the complexity and diversity of these fresh cinematic creations of masculine identities. The book's point of focus is Spanish films of the democratic period, both popular and auteur, made by directors of national and international prominence, such as Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro Amenábar, Bigas Luna or Julio Medem, as well as films featuring acclaimed actors who have contributed to the construction of contemporary ideas of the masculine in their country, including Antonio Banderas and Javier Bardem. Using a fresh theoretical framework, embracing queer and feminist theory and concepts of nation, race and class, each chapter examines key films that represent the male body, highlighting notable elements – young, muscular, homosexual, (dis)abled, foreign and so on – and goes on to focus on recent case studies from the early 1990s to the present.
National Cinema		Native Features: Indigenous Films From Around the World Houston Wood Continuum, 2008 $45.00pb This book explores the varying contexts in which indigenous filmmaking takes place and how they challenge some of the basic assumptions of viewers. Though interest in indigenous feature-length films has expanded greatly in recent years, there is as yet no book-length examination of this subject. "Native Features" will fill this gap. Written for students and the general viewing public, it explores the varying contexts in which indigenous filmmaking takes place and demonstrates how indigenous films challenge some of the basic assumptions of viewers who experience these films while using national cinemas as their models. Each chapter includes little known information that is likely to increase the understanding and pleasure of all who view these diverse films."Native Features" should function as an essential guide for everyone interested in indigenous peoples or in innovative films.
National Cinema		New Turkish Cinema: Belonging, Identity, Memory Asuman Suner I.B. Tauris, 2010 $55.00 pb Providing a sharp and engaging analysis of the films by internationally acclaimed new wave Turkish directors, this is the first full examination of contemporary Turkish cinema to be published in English. Asuman Suner explores the emergence of the new wave Turkish cinema against the backdrop of the drastic transformation of Turkey since the 1990s. Suner argues that this new cinema persistently returns to the themes of belonging, identity and memory; it is how films address these themes that constitutes a dividing line, with big budget popular films tending to settle contradictions into comforting resolutions, while independent movies demonstrate their paradoxical nature. At the same time, she addresses the divergences between popular and "art" cinema that destabilize the very distinction between these categories.
National Cinema		Palestinian Cinema: landscape, trauma & memory George Khleifi , Nurith Gertz Edinburgh University Press, 2008 $50.00pb In this book, two scholars - an Israeli and a Palestinian - in a rare and welcome collaboration, follow the development of Palestinian cinema, commenting on its response to political and social transformations. They discover that the more the social, political and economic conditions worsen and chaos and pain prevail, the more Palestinian cinema becomes involved with the national struggle. As expected, Palestinian cinema has unfolded its national narrative against the Israeli narrative, which tried to silence it. The reflection of the Israeli in Palestinian cinema is one more harsh and painful testimony to the resentment and hostility between the two peoples, who share a common patch of earth and landscape.
National Cinema		Pinewood Studios: 70 Years Of Fabulous Film-Making Morris Bright Carroll & Brown, 2007 $130.00 hb A celebration of Pinewood’s first 70 years, paying a fitting tribute to the past but also looking towards the future. It contains an unparalleled selection of over 500 photographs from the Pinewood archive – featuring many previously unseen shots. 384p.
National Cinema		Pride and Panic: Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film Yana Hashamova Intellect Books, 2007 $88.95 hb Since the fall of Communism, Russians have struggled to reconcile their social traditions with a flood of Western cultural imports. Contemporary Russian cinema has latched on to the resulting confusion and ambivalence, mining societal upheaval for revolutionary cinematic topics. This groundbreaking new study probes cinematic representations of the unsettled Russian national consciousness, a complex cocktail of fear, anger, and anxious uncertainty. Hashamova examines the works of both established and lesser-known Russian directors, and she draws thought-provoking parallels between these evolving social attitudes in contemporary Russia and the development of an individual human psyche. The cultural impact of globalization, the evolution of the Russian national identity, and the psychology of a society all intertwine in this fascinating study of the connections between film and political consciousness.