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Contemporary Cinema Book Series
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Contemporary Cinema Series
Edited by Ernest Mathijs and Steven Schneider
published by Editions Rodopi
www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?SerieId=COCI
For proposals and information, please contact Christa Stevens at: c.stevens@rodopi.nl
The Centre for Cinema Studies at UBC hosts the book series Contemporary Cinema, a series of single-authored and edited volumes on the latest in film culture, theory, reception and interpretation. The series concentrates on films released since the 1970s, and the aim is to reflect important current issues while pointing to others that to date have not been given sufficient attention.
Thus far, Contemporary Cinema has focused on three streams of contemporary cinema: ecology and cinema, French cinema, and Asian cinema.
Contemporary Cinema welcomes proposals and queries on these streams, as well as on other aspects of current cinema from around the world.
Available titles include:
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| Paul Bowman (2010) Theorizing Bruce Lee: Film-Fantasy-Fighting-Philosophy. Buy here About the author |
Sean Cubitt (2005) Ecomedia |
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| Mireia Aragay (ed) (2005) Books in Motion: Adaptation, Intertextuality, Authorship |
Ernest Mathijs and Murray Pomerance (eds) (2006) From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings |
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| Jay McRo, (2007) Nightmare Japan: Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema |
Forthcoming titles include:
- Sophie Belot (2011),The Films of Catherine Breillat
Review Excerpts:
Review of Sean Cubitt's Ecomedia:
"Cubitt's blend of local and global issues makes EcoMedia an enormously important book"
--Holly Rogers, Scope
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Review of Mireia Aragay's Books in Motion:
"a welcome addition to the existing critical literature in this area of study [...] the strength of the volume resides on the bold move to assemble and pack between covers an array of different models for the dissection of filmic texts."
--Clara Calvo, Atlantis Journal
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Review of Mathijs & Pomerance's From Hobbits to Hollywood:
"The array of essays in From Hobbits to Hollywood covers a great deal of ground in terms of the variety of conceptual and methodological approaches adopted and objects of study they embrace. [This book contains] forceful and cogent interpretations of The Lord of the Rings that foreground certain problematic political, racial and even religious connotations"
--Duncan Petrie, Screen
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Review of Jay McRoy's Nightmare Japan:
"[McRoy's] research into Japanese cultural issues is exhaustive [...] This book will undoubtedly be of use to researchers and students.
--Daniel Martin, Scope
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Review of Jay McRoy's Nightmare Japan:
"Jay McRoy sure knows his share of Japanese horror culture and films. He takes you into his understanding of where they came from and where its going. [...] A well thought-out, articulate book"
--Bone Digger, Horrornews.net
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