Book Giveaway! Film Studies

The award season may have come to an end, but we are still mulling over the best films and their directors. Our Wallflower imprint and its Directors’ Cut series highlights the production and reception of the cinema’s most significant contemporary works and filmmakers. To closeout the season, we’re giving you the chance to win one of the titles listed below. Simply fill out the form at the bottom of this post.

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Avengers Assemble!

Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Terence McSweeney

McSweeney explores the cinematic and televisual branches of the Marvel Cinematic Universe from a diverse range of critical perspectives. Beginning with Iron Man, the book considers them both as embodiments of the changing blockbuster film and as affective cultural artifacts that are immersed in the turbulent political climate of their era.

Directors' Cuts

The Directors’ Cuts series focuses on the work of many of the most significant contemporary international filmmakers. In considering the production and reception of the most important works of directors – from Clint Eastwood and the Coen Brothers to Agnès Varda and Béla Tarr, and all points between – this series sheds light upon the creative dynamics of world cinema.

The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino

Commitment to Style

Russell J. A. Kilbourn

Paolo Sorrentino has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first-century European film. This book is a critical examination of Sorrentino’s work, focusing on his emergence as a preeminent transnational auteur.

The Cinema of Louis Malle

Transatlantic Auteur

Edited by Philippe Met. Foreword by Volker Schlöndorff. Afterword by Wes Anderson.

A pioneer of the French New Wave, Louis Malle went on to an acclaimed transatlantic career. This collection of essays reassesses his eclectic and subversive oeuvre to redress the critical neglect it has suffered.

The Cinema of James Cameron

Bodies in Heroic Motion

James Clarke

Explores the massively popular cinema of writer-director James Cameron, including The Terminator, Avatar and Strange Days.

The Cinema of Ang Lee

The Other Side of the Screen, second edition

Whitney Crothers Dilley

Suggestive readings of gender and identity explore the international appeal of Ang Lee.

The Cinema of Steven Spielberg

Empire of Light

Nigel Morris

A survey of one of cinema’s most successful director. Films include Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, and E.T The Extra-Terrestrial.

The Cinema of the Coen Brothers

Hard-Boiled Entertainments

Jeffrey Adams

Surveys Oscar-winning films, such as Fargo (1996) and No Country for Old Men (2007), as well as cult favorites, including O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and The Big Lebowski (1998)

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